they’ve been making those for several years now…

One of the reasons they can sell their products for such low prices, is that much of what they make uses ‘borrowed’ designs – they do very little research and development themselves.

examples include the EHX/Boss/Sansamp clones for pedals, the XENYX mixers – ‘inspired’ by the Mackie Onyx range, and some of their rack processors and preamps – ‘homages’ to dbx and others.

I like those kind of ebay listings… where people don’t know what they are selling… or maybe they just can’t read!

Behringer “XENTY” 😆

I’ve heard those mixers are OK actually… the XENYX range of mixers are ‘based on’ the excellent Mackie Onyx series.

I thought the Kaoss Pad had a mic input with a gain control…

You should be OK plugging a normal (un-powered) dynamic mic into it.

If you really want to use a preamp, there are LOADS of options for all budgets, or you could use a small mixer – this will give you extra flexibility; you could set-up the Kaoss Pad as a send/return effect and have extra control over effect levels, EQ etc.

re: the “dodgy little mini-jack thing”

those 3.5mm jacks were the standard on all(?) American-made pedals for many years; see EHX, DOD, Pro Co etc…
what is now the ‘standard’ 2.1mm was typically found on pedals of Japanese origin, but due to the large market share companies such as Boss command, it made sense to make that the standard.

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If you need a power supply, you can get something suitable from many electronics outlets with interchangeable connectors…
Or buy a ‘standard’ 9v PSU and a 2.1mm-3.5mm adaptor…
Or buy a daisy chain-type (One Spot, Diago Powerstation etc) or ‘brick’-type (Fuel Tank, Pedal Power etc) power supply which will come with various different connectors and will be able to power several pedals at once.

I don’t know about the Nano Clone, but the trimpot in the Small Clone is for bias and shouldn’t really be touched… the usable range of the Small Clone’s trimpot is fairly narrow – adjusting it may lead to the pedal sounding distorted/lo-fi in the best case scenario, to completely killing your signal in the worst.
(the only time I’d advise adjusting the Small Clone’s trimpot is if the effect is overloading/clipping in normal use – just guitar->pedal->amp.)

I’d assume one of the Nano’s trimpots would be for bias too and the other one may be for effect depth…
at the end of the day, it’s your pedal so it’s up to you if you want to tweak the trimpots…
if you do, make sure you mark the original position(s) first.

the left (tap/record) footswitch can be easily replaced with a ‘soft-touch’ switch. but that will immediately void your warranty.

but, truthfully, are you exaggerating the level of the click just a little bit?

i don’t use Facebook, but i think the contest being talked about is a photo competition:
take a picture of all of your EHX pedals; whoever has the most pedals wins some goodies (inc. a pedal bag and T-shirt).

if that is the case, that’s the kind of competition i don’t really approve of; there isn’t a level playing field and for the winner, it will be a case of the rich getting richer.

i can envisage that whoever ends up winning the competition will be someone with an obscene number of pedals, and who probably wouldn’t appreciate the prizes as much as someone else may.

i’d prefer it if the competition involved some kind of thought and creativity on the part of the entrants… like Boss/Roland used to do with their ‘Adventures With Your Boss’ competition (where you had to take a picture of Boss/Roland product in a funny/unusual/unexpected/etc situation.

oh, it sounds like it’s working correctly then…

the octaves always go through the filter section.
when the filter is ‘off’, the slider will be all the way UP…
as you bring it down, you are filtering off the treble frequencies, so it makes sense that with the filter slider dialed right down, you won’t hear much in the way of treble, so the upper octaves will be heavily attenuated.

does that make sense?