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3Leaf Audio Club - Episode 2
- Thread starter fivestringgecko
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While I have nothing really that interesting to say, I wanted to utter my delight about the fact that I replaced my Wonderlove with a Proton ("pedalboard restrictions") and really really love it. Sometimes, for me, less knobs are more. It's fat.
I wrestled with my Proton for a while, and was even considering selling it. Moving the range switch from the high setting to the low, and then rethinking my knob settings got it to a place that I absolutely LOVE.
I've got a Proton and a Wonderlove (different boards). I got the Wonderlove first and then got the Proton for it's smaller footprint. Initially I missed a lot of the flexibility the Wonderlove offers but over time I've found so many cool sounds in the Proton I'm thinking I might need another one for the big board 
I absolutely love it with a Darkglass vintage in front to help give that 'Sir Psycho Sexy' tone. Great pedal.........now what's the deal with that Rusty Box
I absolutely love it with a Darkglass vintage in front to help give that 'Sir Psycho Sexy' tone. Great pedal.........now what's the deal with that Rusty Box
I don't know but I was one of the few that purchased the last of the white Protons and remembered that Spencer said when the last Protons were sold he would "spill the beans" on the new offerings. I did my part and wish that he would give us some info for doing so.
He moved his shop shortly after that statement, so he's still playing catch up. The announcement of the copper/rusty box should be coming any week now.
Wonder if this Rusty box will be a modulation of sorts? Or maybe a special edition You're Doom?
I hope not, personally. Considering the control layout doesn't match anything he's done to date, I'm hoping for a brand new concept at best. If not, my money is still on a PWNZ0R rev2 LTD
Before I contact Spencer directly, I have a question regarding what I think may be my Enabler malfunctioning: I decided to do some late night practicing and plugged in my board and hooked up my laptop and headphones to my Enabler. When I would play, the notes sounded sort of crackly, like static on a radio or something. I tried bypassing my bass's onboard preamp and running into my board passive, and the sound was still there. As I continued practicing, after about a half hour or so, I noticed that the signal of my bass was by that point almost entirely choked out and was even more crackly sounding. The Aux In feature seemed to functioning totally fine though; the stereo sound running into the Enabler was clear and responded to the Aux volume control. Is this a problem other people have had? Thoughts?
Did you try a different cable and a different bass (or other instrument) to eliminate those as the source of the problem ?
Did you try the pedal alone or was it in a chain with other pedals? If the latter, try it alone to eliminate as many other sources of problems as possible (bad power to another pedal, bad patch cable).
I'll hook everything up again today and do some extensive troubleshooting and get back to you guys on that.
That being said, I did have an in-studio rehearsal last Thursday, and for a brief moment I believe phantom power was being sent to the unit (I was using it as a DI). I immediately corrected the individual who was getting all the signals amplified and into our headphones, and the sound of the bass signal was fine for the rest of that rehearsal and at our gig the next night.
Was it bad for phantom power to have been sent to the unit? I'm pretty sure the answer is yes. Could it have taken this long for the negative effects of that oopsy to manifest themselves?
This might be a handy thing to use: Link Removed
My guess is that a lot of equipment has been fried by phantom power over the years...
Most modern equipment can tolerate phantom power (dynamic mics, and even some modern ribbon mics for example) despite not being designed to use it. I'd be surprised if that were the case here, but I'd verify with Spencer to know for sure.
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The summer is nearly over but the octave never appeared....My pedalboard seems to start looking around for something to fill the only place left... 
