Members Mike_E_McGee Posted April 5, 2006 Members Share Posted April 5, 2006 I've been using the vibe as a trem for the past few months. Last night I fired up the chorus side, and it is very distorted. It's not the worst overdrive I've ever heard, but it's certainly not even close to clean. When I back down the guitar volume it cleans up, but to get the pedal clean, the volume is at about half the bypassed (guitar full on) volume. I run the pedal on a power supply, so a dying battery is out. I do not get the distortion in the trem or vib modes, just the chorus. I'm open to ideas to fix it, but having only put together a few BYOC pedals, I don't think I'm qualified. I thought the American distribution/service center was North Star Audio, but I can't find them on the web anymore. Anyone have any ideas on how toget this fixed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members turtleheadblues Posted April 5, 2006 Members Share Posted April 5, 2006 North Star Audio is no longer the USA dist. I know the guy who is, I will pass this along and see what he says Ill let u know asap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mike_E_McGee Posted April 5, 2006 Author Members Share Posted April 5, 2006 Thank you very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members turtleheadblues Posted April 6, 2006 Members Share Posted April 6, 2006 Chuck Russell is the man to speak with, he runs Rogers USA operations His email is stratman-rma@earthlink.net He said to contact him direct. Good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cruss.rma Posted April 6, 2006 Members Share Posted April 6, 2006 Just curious, do you have any digital pedals connected to the same power supply the VV is power by? If so disconnect the digital pedal and see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mike_E_McGee Posted April 6, 2006 Author Members Share Posted April 6, 2006 D'oh! I was about to email you all the goodies, and you come here with troubleshooting tips. Thanks!! I have three digital pedals on my board. To my knowledge they are on seperate power supplies, but are all going into the same power strip. Would that make an impact? I'll have to double check to make sure that nothing is daisy chained with the Vibe. Tonight I've got school after work, so I won't be posting an answer until pretty late. I would LOVE it if rerouting my power would clear up the problem! I'd really rather not be without this box for any period of time!! When I get home, I'll run the vibe as the only effect (powered by adapter). If I still get distortion, I'll run it off a battery as the sole effect in the chain. If I still get distortion, I'll send you an email. If it clears up, I'll start adding effects back in and see if I can find a power scheme that works for me. Just out of curiosity, why would a digital pedal on the same power supply cause distortion in just the chorus mode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cruss.rma Posted April 6, 2006 Members Share Posted April 6, 2006 No problem. Your on the right track. The chorus mode is a little more sensitive to player feed forward input ( how you play, pick attack and such ) and any electrical ground situations. USA - AC power is not very consistant and some digital electronics seek or pass ground throughout the chain. My guess is that a battery will clean it up, just use a good one. This is the most common problem we hear at RMA, my new analouge effect is crap because it makes noise in my rig, or the other way around, just bought this digital pedal and now I have noise, well... it usually is not the analouge pedal, we always recommend isolation from digital effects. As we all know some products just don't play well together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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