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10-03-2007, 03:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Zealand | | | boss pedals, and repairing them
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well, my amp dropped on my boss BF-3 while i was transporting stuff. lucky my BF-2 arrived the same day, i guess. but you see, the stacked knob that controls res and manual has bent. i managed to manipulate it so the res (middle knob) works normally, but the outer ring has busted off and now twirls around uselessly. so, the res controls the manual as well, when i turn it.
can boss pedals be taken apart and fixed? i'm gonna attempt it tomorrow anyway, but any instructions on how to do so? no huge loss if i can't fix it, considering i got a better (IMO) flanger today anyways. buuuut, it'd be nice to have it working properly. my sister likes it for keyboard stuff.
but yeah, anyways. anybody attempted to fix anything like this before on a boss pedal? any methods? |
10-03-2007, 11:28 AM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | Boss analog pedals generally are easy to fix. OTOH stacked pots are a beeyatch. It's also nearly impossible to find the exact replacement pots and pot parts from component retailers. So if you're clever you can probably make a somewhat different replacement stacked pot fit in there... but believe it or not, if you call Boss they may just send you a replacement part, I've heard a couple of people having surprisingly good luck with that. |
10-03-2007, 11:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Oakland, California, USA | | | The BF-3 is digital... that presents its own little nightmare when it comes to repairs.
I'm sure Boss can repair it... but I don't think it's cheap.
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10-03-2007, 11:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Zealand | | | god, yeah, if it was analog i think i'd be fine. but considering the BF-3 is digital, i don't think i'll attempt it. oh well, i can use it as a backup for keyboards.
oh yeah, i was wondering - is the BF-2 digital or analog? sure as hell sounds a lot warmer and nicer than the BF-3. MIJ BF-2, if that matters. |
10-04-2007, 12:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Canberra, Australia | | | BF-2 = analogue.
If all that is broken is the pot, then you can't really do any harm regardless of whether is analogue, digital, quantum or silicon-life-form-based! Provided you take the normal precautions and care, of course.
Replacing the pot is dead easy. FINDING the new replacement pot is by far the most difficult thing you would encounter in doing this repair.
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10-04-2007, 02:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Zealand | | | i think the pot is only bent slightly.. i'm gonna try wiggle it round once i have it open, haha. see what happens. i've been trying it with keyboard recently - grand piano setting, line out, through the flanger's guitar input with what's left of the frequency knob turned down, into an overdriven guitar amp.. it's pretty hardcore. but yeah, thanks fer the help everyone. |
10-04-2007, 08:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Canberra, Australia | | | Well, if it's bent you can bend it back, just go easy or you'll snap it!
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