Members hosebeast Posted September 29, 2009 Members Share Posted September 29, 2009 be re-housed? i have the pitch shifter, and i'm so afraid of breaking it. i would like to re-house it into something resembling one of those devi ever jawns, like the same enclosure as a TBD or rocket or something. can this be done? and if not, how come? i don't know the first thing about electronics, so i couldn't do this myself, but i really wouldn't mind investing a few bucks in this at all. i figure the switches would be the only problem, but one could just use the same switch as the ones on something like a dl-4. am i totally lost about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soulsonic Posted September 29, 2009 Members Share Posted September 29, 2009 I know a guy who re-housed the reverb with great success Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soulsonic Posted September 29, 2009 Members Share Posted September 29, 2009 right here:http://revolutiondeux.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-turn-poor-reverb-into-very.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members whiteop Posted September 29, 2009 Members Share Posted September 29, 2009 No problems at all. You can buy metal cases that are pre-drilled AND painted here... http://www.pedalpartsplus.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=PPP&Category_Code=DRI Behringer does make some decent pedals as far as the electronics go. They could easily up their game and raise the price a little if they would put them in metal cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hosebeast Posted September 29, 2009 Author Members Share Posted September 29, 2009 are there any posters on here who could/can do this for hire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bowlingshirt Posted September 29, 2009 Members Share Posted September 29, 2009 Which pedal are you talking about? Those behringer pedals are copies of other company's pedals...might be easier just to figure out what the original is and get that instead of paying someone to rehouse it for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeremy Skrenes Posted September 29, 2009 Members Share Posted September 29, 2009 Or for the cost and time involved in rehousing, just buy a spare and chuck it out if you break it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members olgluefoot Posted September 29, 2009 Members Share Posted September 29, 2009 I got rid of the cheap feel and squeak of the pedal by removing the spring. Now when I tap it... its an instant on. There is no play it it. Just something you can do to make it feel a bit more solid before you start desoldering things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blueballoon Posted September 29, 2009 Members Share Posted September 29, 2009 It might be less expensive to rehouse than buy a PS-5. Maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members turnstylepoet Posted September 29, 2009 Members Share Posted September 29, 2009 What Behringer pedals are you guys rocking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SonicVI Posted September 29, 2009 Members Share Posted September 29, 2009 If you don't stomp on it with all your might there's no reason why it should break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blueballoon Posted September 29, 2009 Members Share Posted September 29, 2009 The US600 and EM600 are great sounding pedals. My friend has the EM600 and it has problems engaging/disengaging. He's on his 2nd one, the first one only lived for a couple of weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RadioSilence Posted September 29, 2009 Members Share Posted September 29, 2009 there's a video on youtube of a guy trying to break one (hitting it against things, not smashing it with a hammer) and it doesn't break. they're tougher than they look.people say that they worry about the dano food series pedals breaking but i've never heard of one having problems with the enclosure. so you've got three options it seems:- buy the original that the behringer is a copy of.- buy another behringer as a backup.- do nothing, if you treat it normally* it'll be fine. * being a behringer though, it'll probably crap out under normal conditions. i'd bet on it being the switch or other electronics rather than the enclosure though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blueballoon Posted September 29, 2009 Members Share Posted September 29, 2009 ^accurate Though, I'd love a re-housed EM600/Echo Park. I hate the Echo Park enclosure. So ugly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ancient Mariner Posted September 29, 2009 Members Share Posted September 29, 2009 I've got a UT100 trem that I've been gigging around for about 18 months - seems fine still. The only fragile bits are the knobs, which could be snapped off easily, or the board on which they're mounted damaged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members IamBurnout Posted September 29, 2009 Members Share Posted September 29, 2009 The plastic enclosure debate rages on. Those plastic Arion and Rocktek pedals are still working (twenty years later), while another generation assumes plastic is wussy. We're not talking about bakelite here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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