With all due respect, I understand the rant but this was a friend of mine who found out some time ago that he could make the modulation depth more usable for his needs by adjusting the modulation trim. After that adjustment he noticed that the MT added gain to his signal when turned on. He went in unknowing that changing other trimpots would render the pedal unusable and attempted to find a gain control.

Any practical help would be greatly appreciated. If we honestly have to send it in to get an adjustment made, so be it. I cannot fathom the adjustment of half-a-dozen trim pots is so secret or complicated that it can’t be accomplished by a competent musician–otherwise there would probably be fixed resistors in there with black goo smeared all over the circuit board like all the other pedal makers who really want to protect their circuits.