(unintentional) pedal squeeling

aen · Post by **aen** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:00 pm

So I pared down the Arsenal to 2 pedalboards, but I'm getting this mad squeeling when I'm plugged in.

Do you think it could be from using the little center neg-center pos. adaptors on a OneSpot to power my Moogerfoogers? Everything else has been reliably quiet, the only ohter suspect being a deluxe memory man, I had another memory man that squeeled sometimes.

ugh. I was so pumped to get this board ready, and now its all fucked up.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:17 pm

simple, take the moogs out of the loop, if it doesn't shit on you, then there's whats up

pics of the arsenal??? plz?

kim · Post by **kim** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:22 pm

how many adapters for how many pedals are you using ?

aen · Post by **aen** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:36 pm

Onespot for 8 pedals, individual pluggers for DMM and POG.

Post by **Mike** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:37 pm

What cables are you using?

They can cause the squealies too.

kim · Post by **kim** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:43 pm

8 pedals should be fine to not make the onespot go nuts ..

it's a bitch but just keep removing pedals one by one to spot the bad guy maybe, if that's nothing then maybe it's the cables.. like one crappy cable is gonna be fine but for connecting pedals on two boards it might add up to form a wall of hiss... all i can think of really

aen · Post by **aen** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:41 pm

A mixture of planet waves "fancy ass ripoff cables" music store "decent" plasticky jumpers and a fancy ass curly ripoff bullet cable. and one old thing that only says switchcraft on it. It sounds very similar to the noise the ringmod starts to make as I suck it's voltage away (around 6:40) it might be too quiet there, but when you have it in front of a fuzz, its a screamin DEMON. BTW everything is hooke dup withOUT and power starving utilities, ATM, excepting the one integrated into The Great Destroyer.

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which is why i suspect a Moog power issue. Hopefuly using the individual moog plugs will sort it, Ill update tongiht!!!!

kim · Post by **kim** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:55 pm

you're prolly right about the power on the moog ringmod then, i hate it when pedalboards play this gaem with me when i can't figure out what the fuck is wrong

aen · Post by **aen** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:23 am

Fuck. It was the ring mod. *sigh* well, it wasnt on the list of "Shit that needs to be on the board no matter what" I kind of just tossed it on because it fit. HOPEFULLY I will have a co-guitarist before too long, and he can use it.

I think the issue is that it was reacting to a rather high gain fuzz in the chain. It's one that oscillates if you run a wah before it and tip it all the way to "treble terrorist" setting.

So the chain is

>baritone tele custom II or 50s tele (usually)--> hand maded bypass/feedback looper containig> Moog Freqbox/exp pedal>Crybaby Wah>Dwarfcraft Super Star Destroyer>Devi Ever Hyperion>POG>EHX Deluxe memory Man

then "out of the loop" volume(tuner out for tuning)>EHX stereo Memory man with hazarflibbori>Boss loop station (RC25 or summat)

The Metalz essentials. I'll proably work one more distortion type thing in there, maybe the next DCDevice.

Post by **Mike** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:15 am

No Shiva?

aen · Post by **aen** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:21 am

MOTHERFUCKING BON IVER WAVED HIS CHECKBOOK AND I SENT IT OUT ON TOUR WITH HIM AND WILCO. I miss it every day. I cant even find the enclosure i drilled for my next shiva.

BUT that said, it will likely take the spot Hperion is in (go to powerchord exploder), and Hyperion will be moved to "Auxillary single note scratchy fuzz"