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My Memory Boy is completely insane. I literally don’t know what it is going to each time I power it up. Yesterday, with the help of an expression pedal, I could get a maximum delay time of about two seconds. Today, no matter what I did I could only get a maximum of about .7 seconds. On a hunch I unplugged the adaptor and put in a 9 volt battery (a very tight squeeze!). Just now I had a full 4 seconds of (heavily ‘bitcrushed’) delay. I’m not complaining, by the way – I think that this pedal’s unpredictability could be a stroke of genius.
August 5, 2009 at 6:41 pm in reply to: Any Deluxe Memory Man owners tried the Behringer Vintage Time Machine? #100319refeedbackMemberBehringer stuff is OK if you are on a seriously limited budget. I had a couple of the plastic ‘Boss clones’ and they were OK for a while (although a bit noisy I think), one developed a fault fairly quickly, the other was just a weak copy and I’ve never really used it. They were both very cheap and really felt it. As for the Time Machine – I think that you probably get what you pay for!
refeedbackMemberAfter two missed collections from the couriers who were supposed to be collecting the faulty POG2 and no date given for new stock to arrive, I gave up waiting and fixed the damn thing myself – it took me about two minutes.
The pcb does bend by about 1-2 mm near the output jack, but it looks like it was designed with some give in it. So, sorry that I insisted that it must have come out the factory like that, evidently I was mistaken – I guess it just wasn’t quite in so tight to start with and just worked loose through vibration. :facepalm:
Well, it seems to works fine anyway!
refeedbackMemberOK. I needn’t have worried about posting the pic. Fitting it under 75k meant a tiny compressed pic, so here it is. You can just about see the problem jack on the left of the picture. You can also see the three retaining screws presumably securing the pcb to the upper part of the enclosure. The s/n on the internal sticker matches the one on the product box, but not the one taped to the enclosure base. Weird. :freak:
refeedbackMemberQuote:Quote:Nah man. This couldn’t have happened in transit. The hole for the output jack doesn’t line up with the circuit board by a long way!Thats not actually true, once the outside of the jack screws out the PCB is free to move around as it sees fit. You could easily fix this by taking the back off and realigning the PCB then screwing the part in, simple.
I can guarantee you it wouldn’t have left the EHX factory in NYC like this thats for sure!I did consider doing this at first, but I didn’t want to make matters worse.
Just now I gave up and opened the back up briefly to have a look. The circuitboard is actually very firmly attached by screws to the top part of the enclosure (is yours different?). There is no give on the jacks. To force it away from the board would most likely break something! I’ve put it back in the box, wrapped it up ready to be returned.
I did take a photo of the inside, but I doubt that EHX would be too pleased if I posted a picture of the circuitboard.
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Edit: My first port of call was the store from which I bought this. If it had become faulty sometime later I would have contacted EHX, I suppose. I phoned the store within 5 minutes of opening the box and discovering the problem. The guy I spoke to was actually very surprised that any EHX product would be faulty on delivery, said that he was getting one himself, offered me a refund etc (instead I’m waiting for one to come in stock). The courier is picking the POG2 up this week. I’ve been very happy with my EHX stuff to date (I’ve got enough of it), this is just one of those things unfortunately! I just presented this as my experience of this particular product – Hopefully I will be able to properly review my POG2 next week. I’m not having a go or anything!
refeedbackMemberI ordered it from an online music supplies store and it was sent by a courier service. When I ordered it there were none in stock; I actually thought that it would be weeks before they even got any. To my surprise about ten minutes later they had a few in stock, and mine was shipped. The whole package was bubble wrapped very adequately, as it was inside the product box. The product box itself was immaculate. I don’t think that it had been opened (but who knows).
Incidentally, I think that the jacks are mounted to the circuitboard (I suppose that they must be otherwise there’s nothing else holding it) and it’s about 5mm out – too much to ‘bend’ into place. As I said, the holes in the enclosure do not seem to line up; they are at different heights (not as much as 5mm difference, though). Also incidentally, there’s a serial number sticker stuck on with tape (with the backing still on) on the bottom, as if someone didn’t quite finish inspecting it. Actually, it’s quite strange. The serial number on product box ends …180, the sticker taped to the pedal ends …188. How odd.
refeedbackMemberI’m not going to open up a pedal and try to fix it myself when:
1 There’s a good chance that I’ll break it further if I do.
2 I don’t think I should have to do that to something that I’ve just spent two hundred quid on.refeedbackMemberNah man. This couldn’t have happened in transit. The hole for the output jack doesn’t line up with the circuit board by a long way! There’s just no way it could move by this much, what with all the stomp switches, the other jack and whatever is securing the circuitboard internally. You can see the hole is just drilled in the wrong place (too low) compared to the other side. Maybe it failed QC but got packaged anyway. Who knows? I’ve arranged to send it back, but it’ll be a week or two before the company I ordered it from get any in stock. I just have to wait a bit longer. Just rather frustrating is all.
refeedbackMemberThis is really out of alignment!
refeedbackMemberSadly, it wasn’t possible to screw the thing in myself. It looks like the hole in the enclosure was drilled in the wrong place (it’s lower down than the one on the other side). What I don’t get is why QC didn’t pick this up! It’s not like it fell apart during transit, it would have been impossible to put it together in the first place!
Words cannot describe the frustration I feel right now. 😥
Needless to say, It’s being sent back.
refeedbackMemberThe metal part of the output jack wasn’t screwed into the plastic part of the output jack. Both it and the black plastic grommet were loose in the bag! Not only this but there appeared to be some slight damage around the hole in the enclosure.
refeedbackMemberLooks like it’s:
for me.refeedbackMemberSome of my faves:
The Beatles
Pixies
Radiohead
Queens of the Stone Age
Arcade Fire
Elliot Smith
Silversun Pickups
Super Furry Animals (probably the reason I bought my first EHX pedal, due to their singing about their Electric Mistress)refeedbackMemberSadly, I don’t think it would be cost effective for me to send my pedal back to NY, as I live in the UK (I guess I would also have to pay the repair costs and return postage). I can get a new LBMP for £45 (about $65) – I should have sorted this out when I first suspected that it wasn’t right, and when it was still under warranty!
refeedbackMemberThanks for your advice. I just tried a new battery; nice bright LED. With Sustain set to full (about half-past 5 o’clock) and Volume at about 12 o’clock, it is about equal with the clean tone (Seems I exaggerated a bit before). The resulting distortion is almost like a mild overdrive, not really fuzzy, not at all thick – no ‘sustain’ to speak of. I just want to make sure that the pedal really is buggered before shelling out on a new one, in case that’s how it’s supposed to sound, or my setup was wrong or something. I’ve had the pedal over a year, but it’s always sounded like this, hence I don’t use it!
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