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04-28-2010, 04:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NewYork, NY | | | Who else opens up every pedal they own?
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Whenever I pick up a new pedal I always find myself popping the back plate off and looking at all the innards immediately. Does anybody else do this?
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04-28-2010, 04:53 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Southern California | | | Guilty as charged. |
04-28-2010, 04:56 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College Station, Texas | | | Aye. |
04-28-2010, 04:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Helsinki, Finland | | | Yes. I can honestly say that for most part I have had more fun tinkering with pedals than actually using them. |
04-28-2010, 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Robertron Whenever I pick up a new pedal I always find myself popping the back plate off and looking at all the innards immediately. Does anybody else do this? | For sure.
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04-28-2010, 05:31 PM
|  | What a difference a little difference will make | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Southern California | | | Yes sir. I search for trimpots. |
04-28-2010, 05:38 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: San Diego/Seattle | | | Always, usually to remove a battery because I don't use 'em and they add weight. Now that most of my newer pedals are non-battery oriented I look for notes from the builder. |
04-28-2010, 05:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: The Netherlands | | | I only open up second-hand pedals, I kinda like the warranty on the new ones.
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04-28-2010, 05:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: East Bay, CA | | | Fer sure! I always open 'em up, gotta see what's inside. I always pop off the back plate of any bass I get too.
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04-28-2010, 06:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Macedonia | | I will say yes too... most of them after a while get modded. Now I'm building them (not all), it's way cheaper and you can make whatever you want it to sound like, use better quality parts and make ones that doesn't even exist in the stores... it's cool thing.
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04-28-2010, 07:26 PM
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04-28-2010, 07:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia | | | Most of the time, yeah! It's fun and I like seeing the innards of new pedals. Also I usually take any battery out as mentioned. Make sure everything is secure in there.
One recent pedal I bought new I had to resolder some loose wires!
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04-28-2010, 07:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Portland, OR | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonathan1990 I only open up second-hand pedals, I kinda like the warranty on the new ones. | Warranties are for chumps. 
I like digging into mine. I rarely have the time to properly hack on mine but I do it sometimes. Problem is, I only have pedals I'm pretty fond of left and I don't want to chop them.  |
04-28-2010, 08:03 PM
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04-28-2010, 08:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: The Rockies (close to Denver) | | | I do and know very little about electronics. |
04-28-2010, 08:14 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Portland | | | pedal, bass, cabinet, and amp.
I'm going to discharge the caps the hard way one of these days. then there will be no more 'lumps
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04-28-2010, 08:23 PM
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04-28-2010, 11:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: America's High-Five | | | Yup!
But for the life of me I could NOT get the back of the Geiger Counter off of it for the life of me x.x totally blue-balled.
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04-29-2010, 01:44 AM
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-how you test the pedal in shop?
-well, i just open it!
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04-29-2010, 03:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: between Scranton and NJ | | | Always, never know what youll find, might be surprised with a trim pot or switch of some sort. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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