Ok Mu Tron why would you put the input and output so close together...
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NPD: Terrible Design
- Thread starter odarellmc
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When the world demands top jacks and tiny enclosures, this is the inevitable result.
Nice 60s vintage plug ends on those cables. Get some from this millennium, you'll be fine.
Definitely a terrible design. There are thousands and thousands of top jack/small enclosure pedals that don't have that issue so post #2 is inaccurate.
But the time has indeed come to upgrade to EBS cables.
ebs flat patch cable | Sweetwater
But the time has indeed come to upgrade to EBS cables.
ebs flat patch cable | Sweetwater
Those giant pancake plugs are often more trouble than they're worth
Not really. All they had to do was to stick the 9V input between the input and output jacks, like most other pedal manufacturers do, and it would have been fine. However, the footswitches are ridiculously close to each other as well. @odarellmc is right. This thing is a design train wreck.
Shrink the device small enough, you're just forced into this sort of thing by the relative lack of real estate to place everything.
The older ones . . . . didn't have that problem.
The older ones . . . . didn't have that problem.
That poor design practice started with the Ibanez 10-series pedals
Ha! Been thinking about some custom cables that I could cut but it was Stupid of Mu Tron to not think of the various cables that are on the market they need to let folk know if you have my type of cables they can't connect
AND THEY DONT SOUND THAT GREAT. If I can't plug it in and it make sounds good then back they go...
I would say that assessment is dead on..
Yeah, but that type of plug sucked when I first encountered them in the 70s, and they suck more now. Sorry, just my unvarnished opinion.
It's your jacks, not your pedal. Those jacks need to go.
Of course, everything gets easier when you have lots of space, but there are plenty of mini pedals that have solved this problem successfully. Input and output jacks on the sides, 9V at the top. Having top-mounted jacks on a pedal this size is a poor design choice to begin with, and they compounded the error with the frankly ridiculous placement of the 9V input.Shrink the device small enough, you're just forced into this sort of thing by the relative lack of real estate to place everything.
The older ones . . . . didn't have that problem.
I don’t think so. While there are jack plugs that might fit better, the 9V input blocks the output jack.
I wouldn’t know not being an engineer. I just know there are other plugs, molded ones for instance, would fit. I agree with you that I’d like a little more space there, but if I was a gambling man, I’d say the location is highly dependent on what’s inside the pedal, like how it attaches to the circuit board.
Obviously you need straight end plugs not right angle. You can't put a square peg in a round hole. Why did you buy it if you didn't like the design?
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