Recent content by hemoglobinia

A million-dollar question, isn't it? On the sturdy side of things I have a Korg XVP-1, my favorite, which I vastly prefer over the Ernie Balls. Huge and heavy, it's not transportation-friendly. There's the EB VP Jr that sits in my current FX board -- small, but much heavier than I'd...

NO. DON'T DO IT!! The MultiComp manual reads: "EBS Sweden AB guarantees no error free operation when using other DC adapter than the EBS AD-9. Warranty is void if higher voltage than 9.3V has been used to feed the EBS MultiComp pedal." It will most likely work just long enough for...

The real concern is DC cables becoming hum generators.

I was in the midst of reconfiguring my effects board, and wanted to truncate some of my readymade DC cables to fit my board more neatly. I cut my first cable, and find out that the center pin (=minus) is wired to the core, not the shield. I cut my second cable. Ditto. ...Wow... So...

Ah, the Empress looks interesting, although I'm happy and familiar enough with my TC right now to go out and experiment. A great EQ really changed things for me: the only pot I regularly use on my bass now is the pickup balance, and almost never touch the volume or the EQ on the bass itself.

There's no drama in my story: got it around 15 years ago, used, at a music store. In my eyes, it's simply the best stompbox EQ to ever exist. I was saddened to hear that the reissues had very little in common with the originals, and they never reissued the EQs anyways. ...my original...

One day my old board started sounding hideous; thinking it was a bad cable somewhere, the setup was disassembled enough by the time I found the culprit -- a broken EBS MultiComp. So I got myself a new board, and swapped several boxes. Now that I'm happy with the layout and sound, I'll...