Sun King
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I picked up a PEDL-91016 last year, but due to a lengthy, dragged-out divorce, have had very little time to check it out, let alone play guitar. Currently all of my musical equipment is stashed elsewhere, for "safekeeping," although i do still have a cheap acoustic at the house (whoopee!).
When i first got the the footswitch, i checked it out and everything worked fine. After that, it has sat for months until i got a chance to get out to my sister's house and do some playing today.
Well so NOW, the footswitch starts having problems. Got it from a private seller and way too late to return it. What it does, is just shut off completely (although the amp continues to play at the last setting). So I tried a little trouble-shooting with it. First thing is that putting the amp on Standby, and then back On, returns the switch to operation.
The cord supplied looks like any old 1/4" instrument cord, so i tried swapping that. No better, no worse, (although when plugging and unplugging from the switch, clicking sounds would come from inside the amp's front panel.) Then i thought maybe it wanted something in the FX loop. Tried that, no difference either way.
I was able to isolate it to one specific action. The pedal's buttons are numbered 1 through 6, and each have LED's. The buttons' functions, in order, are Clean, Crunch, OD1, OD2, Master Volume, and FX loop. LED's in order are green, red, green, red, green OR red on #5, and green. When this thing works, it is a pretty slick set-up! Anyway, the malfunction would ALWAYS occur while OD2 was on, and then using button 5 (MV). Again, putting the amp in Standby and then back on, would get the footswitch working again. (However, there was also a time when i left it in the malfunction condition for a couple of minutes, and it spontaneously returned to normal.)
Final thing, the power setting- all that time i had the amp on "Low" (20 watts). So i switched to full power, and after that, the footswitch operated properly; in fact i could NOT get it to malfunction while on full power. So that's a major clue right there.
From now on i guess i will only use the amp on full power while running the 6-button switch. Not the worst outcome i suppose. But if i was a gigging musician, that is not a piece of equipment i'd rely on.
When i first got the the footswitch, i checked it out and everything worked fine. After that, it has sat for months until i got a chance to get out to my sister's house and do some playing today.
Well so NOW, the footswitch starts having problems. Got it from a private seller and way too late to return it. What it does, is just shut off completely (although the amp continues to play at the last setting). So I tried a little trouble-shooting with it. First thing is that putting the amp on Standby, and then back On, returns the switch to operation.
The cord supplied looks like any old 1/4" instrument cord, so i tried swapping that. No better, no worse, (although when plugging and unplugging from the switch, clicking sounds would come from inside the amp's front panel.) Then i thought maybe it wanted something in the FX loop. Tried that, no difference either way.
I was able to isolate it to one specific action. The pedal's buttons are numbered 1 through 6, and each have LED's. The buttons' functions, in order, are Clean, Crunch, OD1, OD2, Master Volume, and FX loop. LED's in order are green, red, green, red, green OR red on #5, and green. When this thing works, it is a pretty slick set-up! Anyway, the malfunction would ALWAYS occur while OD2 was on, and then using button 5 (MV). Again, putting the amp in Standby and then back on, would get the footswitch working again. (However, there was also a time when i left it in the malfunction condition for a couple of minutes, and it spontaneously returned to normal.)
Final thing, the power setting- all that time i had the amp on "Low" (20 watts). So i switched to full power, and after that, the footswitch operated properly; in fact i could NOT get it to malfunction while on full power. So that's a major clue right there.
From now on i guess i will only use the amp on full power while running the 6-button switch. Not the worst outcome i suppose. But if i was a gigging musician, that is not a piece of equipment i'd rely on.
