The Line 6 DL4 arrived from George and I eagerly plugged it in yesterday: it worked for about 20 minutes and then went zombie, echo continued but no lights, not responding to the switches. After unplugging/replugging power it didn't do anything other than pass through.
I PM'd George but had to go out. He Googled and pointed me to a potential solution I hadn't spotted. There was a helpful post on ultimatemetal.com (and it wasn't the one from someone called SLAON that can be paraphrased as "Google for it") which despite having a tenuous grasp of electronics ("What you're actually doing is removing static build up in the DL4's chip.") was the solution; re-seat the little EPROM you find when you take the base off. So, thank you Matt Amelung.
Line 6 DL4 fail and fix
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IT WORKED FOR 20 MINUTES SO ITS NOT MY FAULT NICK BROKE IT
But no, I even thought I'd scammed you when I got your message. I'd barely ever used it and only with batteries: literally for one day, flattened them by leaving it on overnight so put it back in it's box, forgetting to ever buy a psu.
So yeah, in my uneducated opinion I think it's something to do with taking a psu for the first time. Fuck knows (but it seems to happen to lots of owners). Glad you got it sorted
Might I please draw your attention to my other wonky pedals in the Classifieds now? All guaranteed to last at least 20 minutes.
But no, I even thought I'd scammed you when I got your message. I'd barely ever used it and only with batteries: literally for one day, flattened them by leaving it on overnight so put it back in it's box, forgetting to ever buy a psu.
So yeah, in my uneducated opinion I think it's something to do with taking a psu for the first time. Fuck knows (but it seems to happen to lots of owners). Glad you got it sorted
Might I please draw your attention to my other wonky pedals in the Classifieds now? All guaranteed to last at least 20 minutes.
