digitech bass distortion

slaphappychappy · #1 06-25-2011, 02:45 AM

i got a digitech bass distortion pedal. the xbd or something.
its red anyhow.

I got a brand new battery for it.
the led blinked 3 times, powering up, and then nothing.
pulled the battery out. put it in again, and it worked. Then i switched it off, and it wouldnt turn on again. Pulled the battery out, left it for a bit, put it in, and it worked for a couple of minutes and stopped.
So, getting annoyed, I took the battery out of my sb7 which is a cheap aldi brand battery. It works fine now. Its odd. The aldi battery cost me about $3, where as the other battery was a energizer lithium battery, made for high drain devices, and it was like $11 .
Aldi batteries are the 9 volt batteries i'm getting from now on.

By the way, love the peadal. The distortion range is excellent on it.

casio · #2 06-25-2011, 05:59 AM

Don't understand the necessity of the post, but hey, nice to see you like it!

slaphappychappy · #3 06-25-2011, 05:31 PM

battery issues. its funny how you can get something expensive, but it wont work sometimes. But yeah, it is kinda pointless. seemed more important when i posted it, lol.

Crystalman85 · #4 06-26-2011, 01:27 AM

I too dig the digitech bass driver. it is my first bass distortion pedal and I dig it for it's fizzy metallic sounds. It also sound totally awesome when I combine it with my hartke bass attack pedal. I got a pretty killer sound with this combination.

If you're having battery issues, you should by an ac adaptor like the visual sounds 1-spot ac adaptor. the digitech bass driver does eat up batteries like french fries. if you purchase an ac adaptor, you won't have to worry about wasting money on buying a lot of 9-volt batteries.