Hi guys, I’m enjoying reading all your suggestions as to what the problem could be :) Just wanted to say, I do actually solve the problem at the end of the video, but I can clarify a bit more on a couple of common things that keep cropping up - Underpowered power supply: The power supply I’m using is the Fender Engine Room, each socket is 500ma, and each pedal only draws about 40ma, so lack of power wasn’t the issue. Checking the newest pedal first: I did check this first, but what I didn’t realise until near the end of the video, is that every time the power to the pedal was turned off and on again, it temporarily reset the problem (I did mention this in the video, but happy to go into more detail here!) So in isolating the newest pedal, the problem wasn’t present as it had been ‘reset’ and vanished for ages, leading me to believe the new pedal wasn’t the issue either. Knowing that in hindsight though, everything makes sense :) knowing this also makes things a lot quicker to troubleshoot in the future! Thanks for watching :)
This is adorable with tiny Dave in the corner. Reminds me of a doctor who episode where he was stuck in a miniature Tardis and was being carried around :-)
I finally got tired of isolating pedal board troubles and spent the money on making my own cables using Mogami cables, Switchcraft and Square Plug jacks and of course a quality isolated power supply and buffers. Since I rewired my pedal board I haven't had any issues.
Strangely my first thought was power supply...or cable. 😄 I've had something similar once upon a time with my lorry and it took the workshop two years to fix it. You have been very quick! Don't let those things push you down.
4.18 The indespensible tool for pedalboard work. My decades long experience of these frustrations has been: 90 percent bad connections. 9 percent power supply issues and 1 percent dud pedals! Great problem chasing video resource so I've subbed.
sorry about the problem Cici,, i have had similar times when i couldnt figure out where the issue was. luckily i was able to solve the issues but not until an exhausting search and several dead ends... grrrrr! in my case , one was a bad patch cable.. quik fix! the other time was actually a bad power supply... it just wasnt good enuff to handle what i was asking it to do so i upgraded to a better one and problem solved. Good luck to you in resolving this headache! Rock on Cici!!
Very helpful and indeed the more material and components into a signal chain the more sometimes nasty little ghost problems can come to the surface and disappear again right after. It's very time consuming and frustrating. I've had this with wireless PA mixers, and with some of my amp heads and/or cabinets. Some were solved some weren't at all. Please keep making this video's because it really can help to find some possible solutions.
I had to pull apart a mate's incredibly tightly built pedalboard. It was a nightmare and I told him to get a 10% bigger board and make his life much easier. (problem was a lead that was failing because if was bent at such a tight angle to get around another pedal)
@@Scoots1994 - That is an example of a player shooting their pedalboard in the foot. If you're doing live gigs for pay, you don't want to extend any potential down time. Redundancy is the best way to go, but that gets expensive.
I haven't watched past about 2 minutes yet, but I have to to say: my Mel9 never works from a shared power supply until I power up, turn it on, unplug the power to the Mel9, then plug the power back in. It blocks all signal until I do this. It is a magical pedal, and a pain in the arse!
CC check this. I have this issue but not with this pedal. It was transients that happen from a gate. It happens when the signal is opening kind of like the hiss right before someone speaks. You can ask the pedal maker if there is some sort of gating process happing in the pedal. Given it is a trem that stops and starts or stutters the signal it is a possibility.
The other thing I would try is placement of the pedal. IF it is a gate-type issue, where it is will effect what those transients might do. So after the drives you may notice less but before more. I find this kind of thing happens a lot in the AX FX with gates, drives, compressors and different combinations. And the biggest thing I have also found with this is it doesn’t always happens and then tends to pop up. So there is some trigger (I think) related to how the “problem” device is stunting the signal. You could also run it by Dan (that pedal show) and get his thoughts. Sorry for the long reply - it just got me thinking of how frustrated I was with this on the AF3. Lol.
@@brucegregori No worries about the long reply, I really appreciate it! Sadly the pedal does it even when running on its own, so I think getting it replaced as it’s under warranty is probably the way to go :)
@@CiciVonStrangelove yup good idea. Check out that gating thing to. The designer may not know it actually does it. Wampler has the terraform that is a lot more than trem but Brian has “variant” control that on certain settings cuts the low end that prevents this. But yes try a new one and see what happens. Shred on!
Troubleshooting intermittent issues can be awfully damned frustrating. Going with redundancy helps if you need to keep your stage show going uninterrupted. This reminds me of my youth in the 1960s and 70s. Back when I had to make my own pedal board from scratch. cut the board. bought raw cable and connectors and made my own cables. made my own mountings. With the help of a talented bandmate. I screwed up a lot of cables which helped me learn to make good cables. Digital multieffect units made those patch cables go away (for a minute) and eliminated a lot of "possible points of failure".
Within the first 15 seconds of the video my guess was the bass batteries were shot. Until you clarified... 2nd guess was cables. At 10:58 I guessed your instrument cable. Once you id'd the tremolo I thought, if ground isolated power supply doesn't fix it it could be pedal order or reversed polarity on the input. make up a 9 volt battery cable connector, buy a cheap regular one (or several) and reverse the power leads to get positive on the barrel. Great diagnostic tool btw.1st fast-thought suggestion is the Boss loop switcher so you don't all your pedals connected in series😢. 1st most immediate upgrade suggested: a power supply with isolated grounds like the CIOKS.
What a journey! The delay in the noise starting really made it difficult to nail down. I wondered if it was going to go the way of Samurai Guitarist who tried everything and eventually went for a walk outside with a guitar and an amp and found a power substation on his start that wasn't shielded. Fun times!
When crackles and buzz apears it is soooo frustration,..Hop you can solve it could be a warranty issue, ive encounterd that with a JOYO pedal ,..it was feedbacking, and i got a new one on warranty,...Love you guy´s
I had the same problem with a digital pedal. Check the milliamp requirement of each pedal to make sure the amperage is being satisfied Also the Mel 9 came with a 9.6 volt power supply. Make sure you're powering it with that
In this instance it was actually a dodgy pedal, rather than to do with the power supply. The power supply is 500ma per socket, so I’d have been surprised if it was that, and I’m glad it wasn’t! Thanks John :)
I love that I'm not the only person that uses flatware to unstick pedals. I was sure it was the wasp causing that buzzing. If you want to save weight Cioks power supplies are amazing (but they aren't cheap).
I have a Tone City Bad Horse (same brand as your Golden Plexi). I had a problem with the signal dipping out on my pedalboard and thought I had to replace my power supply. I managed to solve the problem by switching the Tone City to the 500mA outet on my PSU instead of the 300mA. Seems like that pedal is more sensitive to Amperage than my Fulltone OCD or Sansamp. Surprisingly.
I had the same issue which was caused by an earth problem, there needs to be unbroken circuit between all the pedal housings, guitar and amp with the earth of the electrical supply of your house, else when you touch the strings of your guitar you earth the whole rig producing the unwanted noise. You can use a cheap multi meter to check you have got a complete circuit.
At the start of the video it did sound like DC current leaking into the audio path... BUT... those pedals are meant to be true bypass, so that should happen when the pedal is off. On top of that they're a latching switch meaning it can't be a relay true bypass either... Very peculiar problem. Some tremolo circuits based around the tremadillo/swamp thang circuit do have DC leakage issues when engaged... but not in bypass. Very, very strange.
Well done...Cool under pressure 😎👍 It's ALWAYS the last place you look. So very glad it wasn't Mel9😉 Sun spots...?🤔 Lots of geomagnetic storms right now.😐 Always have to make sure power cable is negative center, which can be a pain😉 😎👍❤🖖c
I could pick up Am radio up on one of my guitar amps when i unplugged my guitar it was a Marshal VS100 couldn't believe it. And yes i've had noise with cheap guitar cables. Especially if there's switchmode power supplies in use as they can be noisier than solid state power supplies. So its possible the cheap cable with poor shielding is picking up EMF from power supplies or even led lighting etc. I've not had much luck with the Boss ds2 it just never seems to play nice with other peddles naughty thing.
My first thought after watching a few of the checks that you made, it was a window or item loose rattling. Happens to me from time to time on my bass cover videos. It's a real drag troubleshooting little gremlins that may plague your bass rig.
I had a weird problem with my simple bass rig which took months for me to figure out. The whole chain is bass>Ampeg Opto Comp>Aqueduct>Hot Wax>Boss Bass EQ>SVT and the problem was that like every other time I recorded, not touching anything between sessions, recording level jumped up and down a massive 12db. Lived with this problem for months but then one day moved the Bass EQ from the board over to a separate power supply at the amp and problem gone. So I guess the EQ had just barely enough power to work properly. It always did it's job EQ-wise except output the correct level consistently.
Sometimes I ask myself, "Why did I buy a rack mounted effects processor instead buying all these neat pedals?" Ah yes, this. This is why. Thank you for the reminder. 😂 Hope that pedal is the answer to your problem after all.
Frustrating pedal board issues aside, wasps are weirdly drawn to noise making electrical appliances as you will know if you've ever mown a lawn with an electric mower during the late months of summer which is why it made a b-line for your pedal board.
OK, it's not the power supply. When semiconductors ( transistors, diodes, integrated circuits) start to go bad when they heat up they will start to act up. Try maxing everything out on the pedal to make it happen, if it does turn off for a while and let cool, and see if it starts again quickly or slowly. I wish you luck. If you have any questions I will try my best to help.🤔👍👍✌️
How funny is that, I've had several Shure Power supplies fail this year in our rack. We use 6 wireless Shure ULXD1 Digital Wireless Bodypack & Transmitter both Lavalier and Handheld. As it turns out, after 6+ Years our Bodypacks & Transmitters are holding up fine and the weak link has been the power supplies. This may not help you solve you specific issues but that's my two cents . Jim, Arkansas - USA
It sounds like a ground loop issue to me. Basically, the power cable is behaving like a radio aerial. It will most likely get worse with the more pedals you have plugged in. Looks like you solved it though.
Issue with earthing on the pedal, caused by a build up of static electricity on the circuit board, which then causes shorts across the boards circuits.
Grab something like the Behringer CT100 cable tester and also a decent multimeter to learn how to take measurements with prongs making a testing circuit for utilizing Ohm’s law calculations to find what is not up to electrical specifications of the various pieces of equipment. I don’t know, just spit-ballin’ over here.
I always take the output from halfway through the pedals to find if the problem is first half or last half, and then narrow down from there. Interesting that the Polara was so expensive … my Polara, last year, was less than half the price of my HX Effects. Hopefully new Digitech & DOD reissues are on their way, as I want a Drop so I can do negative capo :) :D
Wow, that makes me a little bit exited to have a big Board one day, but also worried 😅 i'm now using a HX Stomp with a Darkglass Adam and a Bass Wah and there is so little going on, i never had problems. But i am exited to See, what might Happen
I’m sure you’ll love it! In most cases it’s fairly simple and quick to find the problem, but this was just one of those freak occurrences where the cause kept evading me, I now know that’s because the problem kept resetting when the power was turned off and on again. So knowing that, will speed it up in future anyway :)
I always try to keep my pedal boards as simple as possible but I am a keep it simple stupid kind of guitar player. I tend to use my boss gt-1000 the most out of any pedal board set up I have these days. and my other main pedal board has a tuner, blackstar LT distortion, TC elctronics Chorus and delay a donner looper and that is it.
Intermittent electronic faults are the worst to fix because they come and go and when you've changed a variable and it's gone you think you've found the fault but then it comes back. By the process of elimination you narrowed it to the tremelo pedal, which I got the impression is a new addition to your board? Therefore, you maybe should of suspected it from the start BUT it was an intermittent fault, which are complete sods! Good vid though. Thanks.
A female-female cable would come really handy in this situation - just go pedal after pedal and bypass them one by one. Something like this happened to me this Thursday. Plugged the pedal board in and no sound. It fixed itself which kind of makes me worried it's going to happen again :-/...
I have a very complicated pedalboard with over 30 pedals and my experience is that it’s almost always a lead that is the problem. When you test your leads, presumably with a cable tester, do you comprehensively wiggle them about? Some faults on leads, especially patch leads, can be intermittent and go away when lead is moved a tiny bit but then come back. One other thing to double check, have you definitely verified that all the power supply values are as required on each of the pedal specs? I’d be willing to bet hard cash, right up to my highest betting amount of 5p, that it’s a patch lead though. If I’m correct I hope you pay up. 😊
I do indeed :) And yep, the power supply is 500ma per socket, and each pedal only draws about 40ma. In the end it turned out to be a pedal sadly! But better than replacing a power supply :)
You might be using too many milliamps total for the power supply... each pedal has a mA rating, if they use too much it will do weird stuff with your sound.
The power supply is 500ma per socket, and each pedal is only about 40ma, they’ll only draw what they need :) sadly it was one of the pedals, but better than replacing the power supply!
I would try at first change battery in the bass (as it seems it is active) or try to switch it to passive mode if it is possible ... and then start in the midle of pedal board.. and continue in half where is still the problem .. ;)
I did both of these things in the video, the problem was even happening with passive basses.. sadly it was one of the pedals, but at least I can get it replaced :)
could be you are stressing your power source by having too many pedals in your chain.....that happens when I try to add too many pedals to my setup at times....my looper doesn't like having one too many pedals on my board at all..maybe a surge protected power strip?
In this case it was actually just a faulty pedal :) the power supply I’m using is actually overpowered compared to any of the pedals, but could definitely see that being a problem with a different power supply!
Better a wasp on the pedal board than a whale (AiC reference). ;) Well done keeping it together through the endless testing. If problem is (almost) absent at power-up but appearing/deteriorating after a few minutes, could that mean a component is overheating? If it's the new pedal, I hope you can get it replaced for free.
Not watched the video yet but it could be Dave's carpet that's too noisy ? Dave's put a lot of years of residual Guitar energy in those carpets. They can effect things in mysterious ways.
Ah, yes, the mysteries of the pedalboard! I mean that literally; I have a half-dozen pedals, and have no idea what they do. Rather scary, actually. Like Skynet, don't you know. Never know what the little bastards are thinking...
Hi guys, I’m enjoying reading all your suggestions as to what the problem could be :) Just wanted to say, I do actually solve the problem at the end of the video, but I can clarify a bit more on a couple of common things that keep cropping up -
Underpowered power supply: The power supply I’m using is the Fender Engine Room, each socket is 500ma, and each pedal only draws about 40ma, so lack of power wasn’t the issue.
Checking the newest pedal first: I did check this first, but what I didn’t realise until near the end of the video, is that every time the power to the pedal was turned off and on again, it temporarily reset the problem (I did mention this in the video, but happy to go into more detail here!) So in isolating the newest pedal, the problem wasn’t present as it had been ‘reset’ and vanished for ages, leading me to believe the new pedal wasn’t the issue either.
Knowing that in hindsight though, everything makes sense :) knowing this also makes things a lot quicker to troubleshoot in the future!
Thanks for watching :)
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This is adorable with tiny Dave in the corner. Reminds me of a doctor who episode where he was stuck in a miniature Tardis and was being carried around :-)
Cici!!! 💙💙💙
Hello!! :)
I finally got tired of isolating pedal board troubles and spent the money on making my own cables using Mogami cables, Switchcraft and Square Plug jacks and of course a quality isolated power supply and buffers. Since I rewired my pedal board I haven't had any issues.
Loving hearing and seeing Dave as a floating head on a screen like Holly from Red Dwarf 😅😅
Strangely my first thought was power supply...or cable. 😄 I've had something similar once upon a time with my lorry and it took the workshop two years to fix it. You have been very quick! Don't let those things push you down.
4.18 The indespensible tool for pedalboard work. My decades long experience of these frustrations has been:
90 percent bad connections. 9 percent power supply issues and 1 percent dud pedals! Great problem chasing video resource so I've subbed.
Thanks so much Mark, I’m really glad you enjoyed it! :) Haha that does seem to be the universal way!
Dave whistling in the background was hilarious.
sorry about the problem Cici,, i have had similar times when i couldnt figure out where the issue was. luckily i was able to solve the issues but not until an exhausting search and several dead ends... grrrrr! in my case , one was a bad patch cable.. quik fix! the other time was actually a bad power supply... it just wasnt good enuff to handle what i was asking it to do so i upgraded to a better one and problem solved. Good luck to you in resolving this headache! Rock on Cici!!
Very helpful and indeed the more material and components into a signal chain the more sometimes nasty little ghost problems can come to the surface and disappear again right after. It's very time consuming and frustrating. I've had this with wireless PA mixers, and with some of my amp heads and/or cabinets. Some were solved some weren't at all.
Please keep making this video's because it really can help to find some possible solutions.
Always a pleasure to see you, Cici 😍
The energy between you and Dave is very entertaining but very chaotic haha
Apart from the current problem, I think you and Dave are the coolest persons in the universe. Peace & Love. 😎✌🏽❤️
Thank you so much :) you’re awesome!
Keep troubleshooting in mind when planning a pedalboard.
Very smooth bug capture.
I had to pull apart a mate's incredibly tightly built pedalboard. It was a nightmare and I told him to get a 10% bigger board and make his life much easier. (problem was a lead that was failing because if was bent at such a tight angle to get around another pedal)
@@Scoots1994 - That is an example of a player shooting their pedalboard in the foot.
If you're doing live gigs for pay, you don't want to extend any potential down time.
Redundancy is the best way to go, but that gets expensive.
I haven't watched past about 2 minutes yet, but I have to to say: my Mel9 never works from a shared power supply until I power up, turn it on, unplug the power to the Mel9, then plug the power back in. It blocks all signal until I do this. It is a magical pedal, and a pain in the arse!
CC check this. I have this issue but not with this pedal. It was transients that happen from a gate. It happens when the signal is opening kind of like the hiss right before someone speaks. You can ask the pedal maker if there is some sort of gating process happing in the pedal. Given it is a trem that stops and starts or stutters the signal it is a possibility.
Thank you Bruce! :)
@@CiciVonStrangelove sure thing!
The other thing I would try is placement of the pedal. IF it is a gate-type issue, where it is will effect what those transients might do. So after the drives you may notice less but before more. I find this kind of thing happens a lot in the AX FX with gates, drives, compressors and different combinations. And the biggest thing I have also found with this is it doesn’t always happens and then tends to pop up. So there is some trigger (I think) related to how the “problem” device is stunting the signal. You could also run it by Dan (that pedal show) and get his thoughts. Sorry for the long reply - it just got me thinking of how frustrated I was with this on the AF3. Lol.
@@brucegregori No worries about the long reply, I really appreciate it! Sadly the pedal does it even when running on its own, so I think getting it replaced as it’s under warranty is probably the way to go :)
@@CiciVonStrangelove yup good idea. Check out that gating thing to. The designer may not know it actually does it. Wampler has the terraform that is a lot more than trem but Brian has “variant” control that on certain settings cuts the low end that prevents this. But yes try a new one and see what happens. Shred on!
i love your hair plaits in this video!! ✨😊
8:52 whistle song - Dave Simpson 😂😂😂
Troubleshooting intermittent issues can be awfully damned frustrating. Going with redundancy helps if you need to keep your stage show going uninterrupted.
This reminds me of my youth in the 1960s and 70s. Back when I had to make my own pedal board from scratch. cut the board. bought raw cable and connectors and made my own cables. made my own mountings. With the help of a talented bandmate.
I screwed up a lot of cables which helped me learn to make good cables.
Digital multieffect units made those patch cables go away (for a minute) and eliminated a lot of "possible points of failure".
Turning a negative into a positive, great video. Hope you get the pedal sorted and we see the demo soon 👏👏👍
On the bright side, you’re holding my favorite bass. 😎
Within the first 15 seconds of the video my guess was the bass batteries were shot. Until you clarified... 2nd guess was cables. At 10:58 I guessed your instrument cable. Once you id'd the tremolo I thought, if ground isolated power supply doesn't fix it it could be pedal order or reversed polarity on the input. make up a 9 volt battery cable connector, buy a cheap regular one (or several) and reverse the power leads to get positive on the barrel. Great diagnostic tool btw.1st fast-thought suggestion is the Boss loop switcher so you don't all your pedals connected in series😢. 1st most immediate upgrade suggested: a power supply with isolated grounds like the CIOKS.
What a journey! The delay in the noise starting really made it difficult to nail down. I wondered if it was going to go the way of Samurai Guitarist who tried everything and eventually went for a walk outside with a guitar and an amp and found a power substation on his start that wasn't shielded. Fun times!
When crackles and buzz apears it is soooo frustration,..Hop you can solve it could be a warranty issue, ive encounterd that with a JOYO pedal ,..it was feedbacking, and i got a new one on warranty,...Love you guy´s
I actually thoroughly enjoyed the jeopardy involved with this 🙂
I’m really happy to hear that John haha! :)
I had the same problem with a digital pedal. Check the milliamp requirement of each pedal to make sure the amperage is being satisfied
Also the Mel 9 came with a 9.6 volt power supply. Make sure you're powering it with that
In this instance it was actually a dodgy pedal, rather than to do with the power supply. The power supply is 500ma per socket, so I’d have been surprised if it was that, and I’m glad it wasn’t! Thanks John :)
Dave becomes a version of holly from red dwarf… quality content . Deserves a second episode
The day when you are asking yourself "Do I need a technician or an exorcist" 😁
I love that I'm not the only person that uses flatware to unstick pedals. I was sure it was the wasp causing that buzzing. If you want to save weight Cioks power supplies are amazing (but they aren't cheap).
I have a Tone City Bad Horse (same brand as your Golden Plexi).
I had a problem with the signal dipping out on my pedalboard and thought I had to replace my power supply.
I managed to solve the problem by switching the Tone City to the 500mA outet on my PSU instead of the 300mA. Seems like that pedal is more sensitive to Amperage than my Fulltone OCD or Sansamp. Surprisingly.
Did you retrieve the coaster? Smooth capture!
I did indeed! :) Haha thank you, I was terrified 🤣
What's wrong with your pedal board answer you need a crane to move it 😂😂😂
Yep that’s why I made a new one 😂
This is where a gigrig quartermaster or something wouldve been a god send haha
I had the same issue which was caused by an earth problem, there needs to be unbroken circuit between all the pedal housings, guitar and amp with the earth of the electrical supply of your house, else when you touch the strings of your guitar you earth the whole rig producing the unwanted noise. You can use a cheap multi meter to check you have got a complete circuit.
Interesting! Thanks Richy :)
I hope you get that sorted out Cici soon 😀🤘🎵🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I don't know if you can get one in the UK, but the voodoo lab power supplies should be good. Trouble shooting is a good skill. Rock on.👍👍✌️🎵🎵
I can thoroughly recommend DEO XIT D5 Electronic Cleaner Spray its expensive but always works A Must for a band !!
Years ago ,I had problems with the Morley wah . Weird grounding issue .
Check patch leads , could be intermittent.
At the start of the video it did sound like DC current leaking into the audio path... BUT... those pedals are meant to be true bypass, so that should happen when the pedal is off. On top of that they're a latching switch meaning it can't be a relay true bypass either... Very peculiar problem. Some tremolo circuits based around the tremadillo/swamp thang circuit do have DC leakage issues when engaged... but not in bypass.
Very, very strange.
Well done...Cool under pressure 😎👍
It's ALWAYS the last place you look.
So very glad it wasn't Mel9😉
Sun spots...?🤔
Lots of geomagnetic storms right now.😐
Always have to make sure power cable is negative center, which can be a pain😉
😎👍❤🖖c
The bad noise in my pedalboard is usually my _Talent Booster_ pedal!
I've had problems with daisy chains try swapping it out
These kind of hidden noise issues freak me out. Huge wasps freak me out too. Good luck C!!
Haha me too!! Thanks Mike! Glad it’s solved now :)
I felt for sure the buzz was coming from the wasp. 😁
Haha that’s definitely the original cause!!
I could pick up Am radio up on one of my guitar amps when i unplugged my guitar it was a Marshal VS100 couldn't believe it. And yes i've had noise with cheap guitar cables. Especially if there's switchmode power supplies in use as they can be noisier than solid state power supplies. So its possible the cheap cable with poor shielding is picking up EMF from power supplies or even led lighting etc. I've not had much luck with the Boss ds2 it just never seems to play nice with other peddles naughty thing.
My first thought after watching a few of the checks that you made, it was a window or item loose rattling. Happens to me from time to time on my bass cover videos. It's a real drag troubleshooting little gremlins that may plague your bass rig.
I had a weird problem with my simple bass rig which took months for me to figure out. The whole chain is bass>Ampeg Opto Comp>Aqueduct>Hot Wax>Boss Bass EQ>SVT and the problem was that like every other time I recorded, not touching anything between sessions, recording level jumped up and down a massive 12db. Lived with this problem for months but then one day moved the Bass EQ from the board over to a separate power supply at the amp and problem gone. So I guess the EQ had just barely enough power to work properly. It always did it's job EQ-wise except output the correct level consistently.
That’s really interesting! Glad you figured it out :)
Sometimes I ask myself, "Why did I buy a rack mounted effects processor instead buying all these neat pedals?" Ah yes, this. This is why. Thank you for the reminder. 😂 Hope that pedal is the answer to your problem after all.
it was the Wasp! Was adding too much buzz
I always look at what's changed first, that's usually the problem.
I think your pedalboard is telling you you need a Jext Telez Black Drone Wasp pedal.
There’s this strange buzzing … have you tried switching the wasp off and on again? 😅😊😂
If there’s a wasp, remove any JAM pedals ;)
7:19 _Oh my god, look at that!_
It’s happened to me to, it starts to make you think you’re losing it, hehe
My personal nightmare. On the bright side it made a compelling mystery.
I’m happy to hear that! :)
You can switch to modeling , sounds good and no problem like this and no crashes 😌
Frustrating pedal board issues aside, wasps are weirdly drawn to noise making electrical appliances as you will know if you've ever mown a lawn with an electric mower during the late months of summer which is why it made a b-line for your pedal board.
OK, it's not the power supply. When semiconductors ( transistors, diodes, integrated circuits) start to go bad when they heat up they will start to act up. Try maxing everything out on the pedal to make it happen, if it does turn off for a while and let cool, and see if it starts again quickly or slowly. I wish you luck. If you have any questions I will try my best to help.🤔👍👍✌️
Thank you John! :)
How funny is that, I've had several Shure Power supplies fail this year in our rack. We use 6 wireless Shure ULXD1 Digital Wireless Bodypack & Transmitter both Lavalier and Handheld. As it turns out, after 6+ Years our Bodypacks & Transmitters are holding up fine and the weak link has been the power supplies. This may not help you solve you specific issues but that's my two cents . Jim, Arkansas - USA
What a Crazy Video . Multiple Plott twist. I thought powersupply yea thats it but its Not. What a nightmare.
Its never amusing to c Queenie suffer or b perplexed.
Dave!!!!! Let Her Be Her!!!
Than it Might work!? Let her gooooo.
It sounds like a ground loop issue to me. Basically, the power cable is behaving like a radio aerial. It will most likely get worse with the more pedals you have plugged in. Looks like you solved it though.
Lolol no. Not even close.
My guess would be a cap in the pedal leaking to ground 😫😅
Issue with earthing on the pedal, caused by a build up of static electricity on the circuit board, which then causes shorts across the boards circuits.
No.
I’ve had that exact sound from a dying wireless unit.
Always helful to understand how others trouble shoot the dreaded but. Remember thats how iconic sounds like the Fuzz came about... :)
Very true! :)
Grab something like the Behringer CT100 cable tester and also a decent multimeter to learn how to take measurements with prongs making a testing circuit for utilizing Ohm’s law calculations to find what is not up to electrical specifications of the various pieces of equipment.
I don’t know, just spit-ballin’ over here.
This sounds like a compound problem, ie it's only present when 2 or maybe 3 things are hooked up. Intermittent issues are the _worst._
Not gonna lie... wasps freak me out! 🤣
Have you tried incense sticks to clear out the bad spirits that were possibly summoned by …. the wasp?
Shes so nice!
I always take the output from halfway through the pedals to find if the problem is first half or last half, and then narrow down from there.
Interesting that the Polara was so expensive … my Polara, last year, was less than half the price of my HX Effects. Hopefully new Digitech & DOD reissues are on their way, as I want a Drop so I can do negative capo :) :D
Wow, that makes me a little bit exited to have a big Board one day, but also worried 😅 i'm now using a HX Stomp with a Darkglass Adam and a Bass Wah and there is so little going on, i never had problems. But i am exited to See, what might Happen
I’m sure you’ll love it! In most cases it’s fairly simple and quick to find the problem, but this was just one of those freak occurrences where the cause kept evading me, I now know that’s because the problem kept resetting when the power was turned off and on again. So knowing that, will speed it up in future anyway :)
Least it didn’t happen at a gig. Best regards.
power supply or a patch cable.
I always try to keep my pedal boards as simple as possible but I am a keep it simple stupid kind of guitar player. I tend to use my boss gt-1000 the most out of any pedal board set up I have these days. and my other main pedal board has a tuner, blackstar LT distortion, TC elctronics Chorus and delay a donner looper and that is it.
Hello from NJ! Are you a working musician? Does it pay all your bills? Thank you and stay warm
Intermittent electronic faults are the worst to fix because they come and go and when you've changed a variable and it's gone you think you've found the fault but then it comes back. By the process of elimination you narrowed it to the tremelo pedal, which I got the impression is a new addition to your board? Therefore, you maybe should of suspected it from the start BUT it was an intermittent fault, which are complete sods! Good vid though. Thanks.
U B U!!!!! Let her be her!!
Goodness me, am I glad I only have two pedals...:)
Sounds like it could be a dodgy plug socket in the pedal, but not worth investigating if it’s in warranty!
It's either a signal cable or one or 2 of ur pedals are in the wrong place on the board relative to the others
Having pedals in any order shouldn’t cause this type of noise, but it was a faulty pedal unfortunately!
It could effect the impedance that is going into each pedal, which can do weird things. The fuzz first rule, for example.
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A female-female cable would come really handy in this situation - just go pedal after pedal and bypass them one by one. Something like this happened to me this Thursday. Plugged the pedal board in and no sound. It fixed itself which kind of makes me worried it's going to happen again :-/...
I have a very complicated pedalboard with over 30 pedals and my experience is that it’s almost always a lead that is the problem. When you test your leads, presumably with a cable tester, do you comprehensively wiggle them about? Some faults on leads, especially patch leads, can be intermittent and go away when lead is moved a tiny bit but then come back. One other thing to double check, have you definitely verified that all the power supply values are as required on each of the pedal specs? I’d be willing to bet hard cash, right up to my highest betting amount of 5p, that it’s a patch lead though. If I’m correct I hope you pay up. 😊
I do indeed :) And yep, the power supply is 500ma per socket, and each pedal only draws about 40ma. In the end it turned out to be a pedal sadly! But better than replacing a power supply :)
Aw, so that’s 5p I owe you, I’ll let you have it when I see you, or maybe I’ll win it back before then. 😊
@@cmmooney564 Haha!! You might well do that :)
You might be using too many milliamps total for the power supply... each pedal has a mA rating, if they use too much it will do weird stuff with your sound.
The power supply is 500ma per socket, and each pedal is only about 40ma, they’ll only draw what they need :) sadly it was one of the pedals, but better than replacing the power supply!
I would try at first change battery in the bass (as it seems it is active) or try to switch it to passive mode if it is possible ... and then start in the midle of pedal board.. and continue in half where is still the problem .. ;)
I did both of these things in the video, the problem was even happening with passive basses.. sadly it was one of the pedals, but at least I can get it replaced :)
If she comes back!???
could be you are stressing your power source by having too many pedals in your chain.....that happens when I try to add too many pedals to my setup at times....my looper doesn't like having one too many pedals on my board at all..maybe a surge protected power strip?
In this case it was actually just a faulty pedal :) the power supply I’m using is actually overpowered compared to any of the pedals, but could definitely see that being a problem with a different power supply!
I know I know it’s the house‼️😂
Better a wasp on the pedal board than a whale (AiC reference). ;)
Well done keeping it together through the endless testing. If problem is (almost) absent at power-up but appearing/deteriorating after a few minutes, could that mean a component is overheating? If it's the new pedal, I hope you can get it replaced for free.
Thanks so much :) Thankfully it’s within warranty so I can get it replaced!
Dodgy patch cable?
Sadly one of the pedals!
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Not watched the video yet but it could be Dave's carpet that's too noisy ? Dave's put a lot of years of residual Guitar energy in those carpets. They can effect things in mysterious ways.
This is actually my carpet and my house 🤣 otherwise it’s possible
I know what's wrong with it no crook overdrive and no lizard queen
It's always a cable
Ah, yes, the mysteries of the pedalboard! I mean that literally; I have a half-dozen pedals, and have no idea what they do. Rather scary, actually. Like Skynet, don't you know. Never know what the little bastards are thinking...
😂😂 one of my favourite comments
Just get the flipping pedal repaired!
I tried, but they couldn’t repair it and stopped making the pedal pretty much immediately after I bought it