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Post by morbe on Sept 17, 2011 20:38:40 GMT -5
Okay I owned a Digitech digital delay pedal about 4 years ago. and always ran the thing off batteries, and it never worked right, it would do all kinds of crazy things. I guessing the batteries would die because it would always do this after a solid 3 hours of playing. I would think that name brand batteries would last longer than a couple of hours. So I sold it for like 10 bucks to a guy who claimed to repair pedals.
So know I have a Digitech main squeeze compression pedal. and the same thing! After a couple hours of playing it will give a god awe full noise and the whole chain is unresponsive, I can stomp on the pedal but it seems lock up. the noise doesnt go away until I pull the battery and take the pedal out of the chain.
So what gives? are Digitech pedals just crap in a box? or are they suppose to be ran off a power supply? or did I just get two bad pedals on coincidence, they were both used.
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Post by JohnH on Sept 17, 2011 20:48:53 GMT -5
I've got that delay pedal, and find it quite good. But being digital, it uses quite a lot of power. Even the specs only offer 4 hours with a set of new alkalines. www.digitech.com/en/products/digidelayI reckon you need a power adapter. J |
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Post by morbe on Sept 18, 2011 21:38:50 GMT -5
I wonder if its the same for the compression pedal (main Squeeze) thats the one I own now.
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Post by JohnH on Sept 19, 2011 4:03:25 GMT -5
I wonder if its the same for the compression pedal (main Squeeze) thats the one I own now. Probably the same. It's in the same series and the same battery life is listed. www.digitech.com/en/products/main-squeezeJohn |
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Post by morbe on Sept 22, 2011 11:23:58 GMT -5
Yep that solved it. Got a daisy chain adapter and I get better performance from it. However when I use it I get extra hum from it.does this mean I need a noise gate now?
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Post by JohnH on Sept 22, 2011 15:36:18 GMT -5
Yep that solved it. Got a daisy chain adapter and I get better performance from it. However when I use it I get extra hum from it.does this mean I need a noise gate now? Thats good news that it works, but if it hums it could be that it is not a properly smooth and stable adapter. What sort is it? I dont think you need a noise gate for that reason though. |
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Post by teking66 on Oct 23, 2012 8:12:34 GMT -5
I agree, you probably don't need a noise gate.
Is the adapter plugged into conditioned power?
That could eliminate the 'hum'.
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Post by 4real on Oct 23, 2012 15:26:15 GMT -5
Sounds like a generic poor adaptor. Digital pedals are particulary sensitive to all that kind of thing, some don't even like to share with other pedals and might need their own stable supply (things like a digital delay)...look to that before going the noise gate route...
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Post by ashcatlt on Oct 23, 2012 22:48:00 GMT -5
1) It is at least possible that you've created a ground loop. Is the adapter plugged into the same power strip as the amp? That might help.
2) There might not be good enough filtering in the adapted or in the pedal. A resistor and a couple of caps could help that.
3) If you try to pull too much current from one of these power supplies, it can sometimes partially defeat what filtering there is. Also, as the voltage sags and the PSU struggles it can do all kinds of strange things to digital devices.
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Post by flateric on Nov 6, 2012 11:19:04 GMT -5
my moneys on a cheap adapter, they can ruin a good pedal chain with earth hum.
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