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Old 07-31-2009, 05:10 AM
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Yes yes, sad sad situation.

Yesterday when I showed up in our rehearsalroom I plugged in and found out that my DI wouldn't track normally.

In fact, I couldn't get any input signal at all, unless I turned the "input level" all the way up, and played very hard on my strings, and even then, I got barely nothing.

This past weekend I played an outdoors gig with strong sunlight on the stage, and because I had my DI set up with a fuzz (via the LS-2) I can use them simultaneously and gain good results.

During this one song-intro I am playing in the higher register on the G-string, with the sub-octave-filter on the DI engaged (program 6), then, when the song gets a bit heavier I switch to my fuzz, and play the rest of the song, lower on the neck. After the song I see that I didn't turn off the DI as I would have, and therefore the sub-octave was engaged during the whole song which has low D's and really powerful playing in it... I wonder if that is what fried the input-stage?

On my LS-2 the volumelevel of the loop the DI is in, is set much lower than the loop with my fuzz in it, which means that when both are engaged the fuzz is the one that is heard the most, that's why I didn't notice the DI was engaged untill the end of the song

Later in the set, it tracked fine though, but just thought I would mention it.

I've tried another PSU, different cables, opening it up and looking and the guts, where everything seems fine.

I don't know what to do?
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Old 07-31-2009, 05:24 AM
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Send it to your local authorized Akai Service Centre. They'll fix it up good as new for you.
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Old 07-31-2009, 05:33 AM
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Send it to your local authorized Akai Service Centre. They'll fix it up good as new for you.
Hmm... That is good news, because I believe I once read in here that even AKAI couldn't fix it, because they couldn't find the manuals for it.

Besides that, I can't seem to find any AKAI service center in Denmark.
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Old 07-31-2009, 05:58 AM
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Yeah... I think what he was saying is that your DI is Toasted..

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Old 07-31-2009, 06:08 AM
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Send it to your local authorized Akai Service Centre. They'll fix it up good as new for you.
+1 Several people on here (myself included) have had to send in our Deep Impacts for repair. In my case, it was just a few broken solder joints...
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+1 Several people on here (myself included) have had to send in our Deep Impacts for repair. In my case, it was just a few broken solder joints...
Mine came back perfect. Broken Solder Joints too.
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Old 07-31-2009, 07:40 AM
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nice to know I can buy one and don't have to worry about it being a discontinued pedal =D
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Old 07-31-2009, 11:25 AM
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I'm glad to hear that Akai's customer service will still work on DIs. Perhaps a revival is expected?
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Um... No, please don't start this again....
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