Help me with my pedal woes electronic savy peoples

light rail coyote · Post by **light rail coyote** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:31 am

I'm going crazy with rage
Here are my pedals

It goes guitar to bypass pedal, which goes out to the reverb and amp. The loop goes fuzz factory, volume pedal, DMM, small stone, dd-5, loop station, and back to bypass pedal. My problem is both my small stone and DMM cut the volume about 25% when I click them on. however If I just use one. like I go guitar cable DMM cable amp. I get no volume drop. None of my other pedals do this, and I really want them to work in this order, especially the DMM. it has to be after the volume pedal. What the fuck is going on. I'm mad

I may throw my guitar out the window

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:46 am

KILL THEM FAGGOT PEDALZES why they gotta hate?!

Will · Post by **Will** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:47 am

There might be an issue if you're powering many pedals (especially the high-draw digital ones) with the same power supply, as in maybe the available voltage drops. This used to happen when I had a digital delay daisy chained off an unregulated power supply.

For starters, there's a super-simple 2 resistor mod for the small stone that brings the effect level to unity - maybe try that first. If the problem persists, it might be a power supply issue.

you could also experiment with running all the pedals off of batteries to narrow it down a bit.

boyecho · Post by **boyecho** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:48 am

i have a more recent DMM and my volume is only at the second red marking. the blend is about... 9 o'clock...

i run about 11 pedals including moogerfoogers i do not have the same problem you do..

that is VERY bizarre...

and your bypass box doesnt kill any volume with the rest of your pedals?? and you've probably done the obvious like checked your cables...

very weird.

i power most of my pedals off a 1 spot and only use adaptors for my EHX DMM and moogerfoogers...

light rail coyote · Post by **light rail coyote** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:50 am

I dont think it's a power supply issue because 1 the DMM is an older one where it has a hardwired plug, 2 it does it even when all the other pedals are off

Will · Post by **Will** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:15 am

Maybe it's God telling you you have too many pedals.

light rail coyote · Post by **light rail coyote** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:19 am

Once again I will refute your theory with 2 points
1 I dont beleive in god
2 I Looove all my pedals so much

light rail coyote · Post by **light rail coyote** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:32 am

Holy crap I figured it out. I have 3 bad cables. 2 make the volume drop thing happen, and one makes all the electroharmonix pedals in the chain click when you stomp on the switch. I now fully know that electronics are voodo magic and mojo. Hiw fucking weird. Now I need more cables

I shouldn't have bought that serviceman