Unfortunately, having tried using my Mod-Rex with the Time Bandit, I am now very confused; partially down to terminology and abbreviations but mainly due to not doing very well at school (probably).

I get that click-in is the opposite (as far as this is concerned) of clock-in, so it is unhelpful for me that the Super Pulsar and Mod-Rex have TAP/CLK IN and CLK/FC options whilst the Time Bandit says CLICK IN.

So, I assume that Tap, Foot Controller and Click all equate to the same thing and that I the Mod-Rex should be set to -FC-, which appears to have been its default.

The Mod-Rex manual (p14) says that in this mode, it expects a TRS cable but the Time Bandit instructions state that a mono cable should be connected to the out jack (in fact, they state that both output and input are mono.

In any case, I tried the Mod-Rex with the Time bandit using a TS cable (I haven’t got a TRS handy). Before connecting, I set the Mod-Rex to 40bpm and connected the Time Bandit at its default 120bpm and waited for something to happen but the Mod-Rex LED just carried on flashing at 40bpm.

If the Time Bandit output is TS, I’m not sure if it is worth going far out of my way to get a TRS cable but I will have a good rummage later.

By the way, just for good measure, I tried the Mod-Rex set to CLOC too.

Yes, the tap function is working fine.

I set the Super Pulsar to External Switch and it is ‘working’ again in that it is picking up the tempo from the what is set manually on the Time Bandit; i.e. it slows down and speeds up. However, if I set it to, say, 120bpm and my Zoom R24 to 120bpm and start playing with a Zoom R24 drum track, within a minute, the Super Tremolo is out of phase with the drums. If I use the Click-in to the Time Bandit from the R24, it seems to go out of phase much quicker.

That was with a clean signal at 120bmp. Unfortunately for me, when I get going with what I’m trying to achieve (a sweeping helicopter sounding choppy rhythm via a deluxe Big Muff with expression pedal), I tend to play with the tremolo rather than the drums and it gets pretty messy in a quarter of the time. Although the Mod Rex is better for synching, for some reason, the tremolo wave does not sound as square as the Super Tremolo otherwise, I’d consider giving up trying with the Super Tremolo.

Apologies for opening a year old thread but I have been having problems synching my Super Tremolo for a while. I’m pretty sure that the click is getting to the Super Tremolo okay but for some reason, it is just ignoring it.

The Time Bandit has an input which into which I send the click from my Zoom R24 and the output from the Time Bandit goes to the Super Pulsar; this way, there should be total synch with the drum track. I know the click is getting to the Super Pulsar via the Time Bandit because when I accidentally mixed in the drums, both the Time Bandit and the Super Pulsar went a bit crazy trying to catch the rhythm and when I mixed the drums out again, they both went back to normal speed but unfortunately, whilst the Time Bandit catches the click perfectly, the Super Pulsar is out. I don’t know how to measure the slippage but it seems like about a quarter note every 16 notes or so and sounds awful very quickly. I’ve tried feeding the click straight from the R24 to the Super Pulsar but it doesn’t help.

I’ve restored the Super Pulsar to factory settings and made sure that it is set to Click In. It’s a real shame because when it worked, it was fantastic – now I am having to use my Mod Rex for tremolo which has a solid dial-in tempo and is fantastic for its versatility but doesn’t give me what the Super Pulsar did in terms of wave control.

I found another thread which said that the revision of the board may be a factor with a similar issue but mine is Rev E.

And I spotted The Smiths Easter egg on the board.

But I’m not.

What if the noise was not caused by AC current?

What if the noise is not a hum?

I get interference between certain pedals when they are on certain settings.

The fact that EHX recommend that the Hum Debugger be placed at the beginning of the effects chain shows that it it only works on a dry signal. If the kind of device I had in mind was produced, it would be placed at the end of the effects chain so that a sample of the noice throughout the signal path could be taken.

Stupid me!

I just realised that when I connected everything up, I connected an expression pedal and had forgotten that I had done so.

I’ll just leave this here in case anybody else makes the same mistake.

Everything is modulating wonderfully!

Thanks.

I have a parallel signal which is:

Platform > Hot Wax > PolyPhase > Cathedral (as of today’s delivery).

Plus I have a Mel9 on a third. I’m hoping to get a C9 at some point.

Everything actually goes through the Mel9, the dry signal is split by the Platform and they all (five signals – two stereo one mono) go into a Zoom R24 where the fun gets entangled.

Thanks.

I know that when it was in Normal mode and set to Clock In, the metronome did not have any effect. Is there an ideal metronome kind of sound to trigger the tempo? I assumed it would be something with a short and distinct attack and decay.

I can’t figure out why sometimes I can change the Tap/Clock mode, even in Normal mode, and sometimes I can’t. The only way to force it to work seems to be to cycle through the Normal/Preset modes but that doesn’t always work. Also, the manual says to hold the Wave Invert button down but in my experience, the TAP switch has to be pushed almost instantaneously.

Anyway, I’ll report my results tomorrow.

Thanks again.