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Diamond is BACK baby!!

#201
If I should have one nitpicky pet peeve with this pedal, they could - at this price - NOT skimp on the text and labeling of this front (yes, front, not top!) . How much more does printing IN and OUT and 9 v DC 22 mA (or whatever) cost?

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I know very well that the current and voltage and center negative is stamped at the bottom of this pedal. But if this pedal is in the middle of a pedalboard with velcro strips on, not only is it invisible, but may be teared and wore out whenever removing that velcro underneath. Not to talk about serial number. I think it is a gaffe, even though the original large ones faced the same "problem". But there you had the input/output at either left and right side, so it would be hard to mess/mix those ones up. I find it crucial to know the voltage/current draw and center negative (or not) printed as close as possible to the current jack. Not stamped at the bottom, please.

And if stamped on the bottom, or anywhere else, PLEASE print out on the box that it can take 18v too.

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#203
butterfingers1 said:
Maybe I’m ignorant, but it’s not a given that input/output is right/left. This also really should be written clearly on the pedal. What happens if you reverse them by mistake?
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You'll be duly notified of the mistake by a lack of sound and you'll reverse to the correct position with no damage to anything other than the 5 seconds you've lost to the process.
 
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#204
But today, pedals are more and more used in a "loop switcher" use on pedalboard, effects loop of an amp, and maybe not always connected to an instrument directly. I may be duly notified of the silent too, but damage to the pedal if wrong voltage is connected to the current jack...maybe not this particular one but others. The typing labelling of 22mA may not be a lot, but can be crucial when adding up all outlets from a power supply.

I mean, c'mon, if it was a Behringer at 50 quid I wouldn't object.
 
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Also when first connecting this to the 18v adapter, first time, and engage it, it makes an awful distorted sound too loud initally, when playing, for a couple of seconds, when pressing the switch. But subsequent presses on/off doesn't. Just as if it couldn't take the 18v and then .... die....it seems that it has to relay or "collect" that voltage first and then tame it....switching back to 9v doesn't behave like this.
 
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#206
Just telling you what paid for it. 3.299 SEK = 321.59 USD
...so the Swedish weak currency, against the dollar, is at bad rate at the moment as well as the inflation too. However, it is listed now "out of stock" at the Swedish vendor I bought it from (TGT11) so I must've bought one of the last ones. Means, still popular in spite of that price.
 
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Deleted member 368008 said:
But today, pedals are more and more used in a "loop switcher" use on pedalboard, effects loop of an amp, and maybe not always connected to an instrument directly. I may be duly notified of the silent too, but damage to the pedal if wrong voltage is connected to the current jack...maybe not this particular one but others. The typing labelling of 22mA may not be a lot, but can be crucial when adding up all outlets from a power supply.

I mean, c'mon, if it was a Behringer at 50 quid I wouldn't object.
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As someone who designs products for a living, we just accept that someone out there is going to complain. Does the pedal have readily available specs online? Yes. Does it have a instruction sheet pdf? Yes. Screen printing on a side is a cost that benefits who? Some small subset of a percent of users? Yeah If I'm diamond/solidgoldfx that info goes in the manual that anyone on the planet with a smartphone can access and I go about my day not increasing costs and the chance of rejecting more enclosures for blems from more processes.
 
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#209
therhodeo said:
As someone who designs products for a living, we just accept that someone out there is going to complain. Does the pedal have readily available specs online?
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Yes, and we customers that rains on the parade compares this one to other products at the same price. Cutthroat competition out there, isn't it? I mean, like overdrive pedals, there is an expression JAFOD, do we really need yet another overdrive pedal from another boutiqe manufacturer? Even Klon KTR had no other thing printed on his red box than "Kindly remember one thing: the hype that offends so many is not of my making". Could've wasted that ink to better information, or stated that in the pdf or manual that didn't exist anyway. Now, this ain't no od pedal but there are lots of other bass compressors pedals out there at both this price, higher and lower. With ink on the out/in jacks....and paralell blend knob ..;)

So how do we better and develop/evolve products if there's no one complaining or sweating the small stuff? ;)
 
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Deleted member 368008 said:
Just telling you what paid for it. 3.299 SEK = 321.59 USD
...so the Swedish weak currency, against the dollar, is at bad rate at the moment as well as the inflation too. However, it is listed now "out of stock" at the Swedish vendor I bought it from (TGT11) so I must've bought one of the last ones. Means, still popular in spite of that price.
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I ordered mine direct from Greg at SGFX as no New Zealand supplier
$239 US, the rate was 1.65 so maybe $320 NZ

I’ve said it before but SGFX are great to deal with.
 
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#216
Diamond is still of repute even over here. When I brought it the other day to the band rehearsal the other guitarist said "oh, so you got yourself a Diamond...heard that they're cream of the crop". Well, lets see...I said. He didn't know they went belly up a couple of years ago.
 
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#217
That’s the PieIX bridge (named after Pope Pius IX), 15km north of downtown. This was farmland until the 1950s. The island of Laval adjacent to the island of Montreal used to be called Ile Jesus, it belonged to the Jesuits since colonial times, and remained an undeveloped religious institutional/pastoral territory the size of Montreal. Now it’s a modern city booming since WW2.
 
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#218
Gave the Diamond a spin. It’s always hard telling what compression is doing, except everything sounds better overall. Works well. So far I can’t find much use for the EQ. Everything at noon sounds good to me. Very subtle colouring of tone, thickening and sweetening maybe. Running at 9V, think I’ll leave it there and maybe try the Truetone voltage doubler cable on the Beta V pedal (it’s on another bass and amplifier).
 
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#219
I assumed the tilt EQ concerned the middle frequencies only, and the Mid knob adjusted the volume of the tilted mid spectrum. But now I wonder if the tilt extends to the full range (bass to treble, like 40Hz-5KHz), and the Mid knob is just an unconnected regular mid EQ. Does anyone know?
 
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butterfingers1 said:
I assumed the tilt EQ concerned the middle frequencies only, and the Mid knob adjusted the volume of the tilted mid spectrum. But now I wonder if the tilt extends to the full range (bass to treble, like 40Hz-5KHz), and the Mid knob is just an unconnected regular mid EQ. Does anyone know?
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The tilt is full range (I don’t know the limit, if any) and is separate from the mid EQ.
 
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