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alright, so i just went to go play some good ole guitar, but when i stepped on my stereo memory man, the sound went dead.
it works fine in bypass mode, but when i try to turn it on, no sound. i put in the the stereo output too to see if that worked, and it was just loud static instead of nothing.
and i know that it's powered. the light is on, but it seems to be doing pretty much what it would normally be doing.
this is shit. i was about to record some tracks, but can't do it without the mm.

Check power supply
then take to shop
then send to maker
get repair bill

then you may cry

yeah man.
it's shit, but i'm pretty grateful it wasn't my big muff.
at least my bassist has the same pedal...

What?
Take that shit apart and INVESTIGATE.

haha yeah i did.
but i couldn't see anything and the damn board is attached to the case, and i don't really want to rip it off and do more damage...

Did you check out the connections to the footswitch?

It happened because EHX stuff is badly put together, unreliable crap...

alright i opened it up to check the connections to the footswitch and they look fine.
but i do notice that the solder on the main output looks like it may have been worn down.
more importantly, i notice that there are three prongs on the power thing, but only two wires soldered on.
are there supposed to be three?
also, it looks like theres some tape or something plastic on one of the wires, but that's going to the light, which works, so i'm assuming that's not the problem.

vivadeluxxe wrote:It happened because EHX stuff is badly put together, unreliable crap...

YES!
I'm glad someone else realizes this.

I can't believe I paid $50 for the russian big muff a long time ago. it's like a bigass box with some shit in it. what.

Sloan wrote:

vivadeluxxe wrote:It happened because EHX stuff is badly put together, unreliable crap...

YES!
I'm glad someone else realizes this.

I can't believe I paid $50 for the russian big muff a long time ago. it's like a bigass box with some shit in it. what.

i dont know. i had the green russian pedals. and we literally drove a truck over them.

but tires don't do much damage except crack knobs and bend the color switch on the small stone.

that big clunky button of a footswitch was awesome.

the green russian ones aren't really the runofthemill EHX though. those things are like mil-spec or something. tube dude here has one just chillin' in his van or whatever.

I've owned 3 EHX pedals...
The Russian Small Stone died after a couple of years...
The USA Big Muff broke two days after I'd got it home from the shop...
My Small Clone stopped working during a gig, aged 6 months...

That's pretty toss considering my MT2 is 15 years old and been gigged like fuck for all of that time and still works like the day I bought it...

Wow, i cant say that i have had any problems with my EH stuff, I have a early '80's Poly Chorus, and i still use the holy shit out of it.

my nyc big muff is 6 years old, perfect
my first DMM i had for 3 years, no issues
my first holy grail i had for a year, no issues
my first big muff i had for about 5 years, no issues.

chalk it up to bad luck?

my big muff is over 30 years old and still works fine, well after I had a true bypass switch put in. My small stone is over 30 years old, works fine. My DMM has some issues sometimes, but it was only a bad jack, or bad cables making it weird.

mewithoutus wrote:my nyc big muff is 6 years old, perfect
my first DMM i had for 3 years, no issues
my first holy grail i had for a year, no issues
my first big muff i had for about 5 years, no issues.

chalk it up to bad luck?

Maybe...
But how much action do your pedals see? Do you gig and rehearse with them on a regular basis?

Maybe the postmen fuck around with EHX stuff when they get shipped over here, like put their schlongs in the input jacks and that.

I dunno how long my Polychorus lasted before the switch went iffy.. just replaced it and stuck it on eBay. Hopefully my new Pulsar ain't gonna shit the bed in the same way..

vivadeluxxe wrote:

mewithoutus wrote:my nyc big muff is 6 years old, perfect
my first DMM i had for 3 years, no issues
my first holy grail i had for a year, no issues
my first big muff i had for about 5 years, no issues.

chalk it up to bad luck?

Maybe...
But how much action do your pedals see? Do you gig and rehearse with them on a regular basis?

dude im no bedroom player, those have all been on tour numerous times. my pedalboard has spent days in a hot trailer and been tripped over, stomped on, dropped, looked at funny and spilled on a bajillion times.

my pedalboard is actually in my drummers trunk right now. probably baking.

Doog wrote:Maybe the postmen fuck around with EHX stuff when they get shipped over here, like put their schlongs in the input jacks and that.

I dunno how long my Polychorus lasted before the switch went iffy..

My Royal Mail Cock-Free US market polychorus had an iffy switch.. replaced it and the new one went iffy
have another spare somewhere. It's just not a great bypass to begin with, either.

mewithoutus wrote:my nyc big muff is 6 years old, perfect
my first DMM i had for 3 years, no issues
my first holy grail i had for a year, no issues
my first big muff i had for about 5 years, no issues.

chalk it up to bad luck?

Yeah, I've had no problems w/ my EHX pedals either.

Mid 90's Deluxe Electric Mistress, perfect
Reissue Small Clone, no issues
Little Big Muff, problem-free