Switch popping noise, I found a way to fix it

[Old Garage-Bander]

Me too! I've got a library quality edition of the big Websters on a stand in my den. It gets used regularly. And many people in my family and among my friends have discovered the pleasures of browsing through it when they're here.

A dictionary was one of my favorite books when I was very young. Webster's or the OED is always an intellectual oasis for me, along with Roget's Thesaurus, Rodale's Synonym Finder, the big National Geographic World Atlas, and the most recent edition of the CIA's The World Fact Book. Noble tools all of them. Right up there with firemans' helmets.

The dictionary is the best book to have.
It contains all the other books.

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

Hi,
I am relatively new to the world of pedal boards. I put one together that works really well for me.
This is the order I had them in.
EBS Multi comp.Mooer Tender Octaver.Boss CEB-3 bass chorus,TC Flashback and HOF
There was a problem with the Mooer Octaver.
The on off switch made a super loud popping sound.Totally unusable on a gig.
I pulled the pedal out of the board and used it on it's own and the switch was completely silent.
So I ended up changing the order of the pedals and sure enough that fixed it. I'm so glad because the Mooer octaver is a pedal that sounds reallly great.
Now I have a pedal order that may be a bit strange. I arranged them in this order because of the input and output locations of the different pedals.The way I have it, the pedals fit on the board perfectly. The compressor is now in the middle, but I think it's still OK.I don't notice anything strange when I use the pedals in this combination.
Mooer Octaver,TC Flashback, EBS Multicomp,Boss Chorus and TC HOF.

The more stuff a noisy switches goes through, the more likely the noise will be amplified.
Moving it further up in the chain had the switching noise going through fewer other active circuits.

If you put a mechanical switch at the input to a preamp, you will amplify the switch noise along with the signal.
If you put a switch on the output of a pre, less of the switch noise will be heard.

 

[veryvery]

I tried to find which pedal the Moeer tender octaver is modeled after, but I could not find anything.

It's modeled after the EHX Micro-POG.

 

[Axstar]

I tried to find which pedal the Moeer tender octaver is modeled after, but I could not find anything.

The good people of The Gear Page reckon it is a MicroPog clone. Four times the cost and four times the size, in that case!

EDIT: As veryvery already verified!

 

[gregmon79]

I changed the order and the popping is still gone.
Now its
Moeer octaver, EBS Multi comp , Boss Chorus, TC Flashback and TC HOF Reverb
I guess the Mooer Octaver did not like to be after the compressor.
So this seems to work and I will not mess a real electronics fix on the Mooer I don't know how to solder on small electronics like this. Paying my repair guy to do it would cost me more than the pedal.
I tried to find which pedal the Moeer tender octaver is modeled after, but I could not find anything.

Did you try simply stomping it off and on a handful of times? I probably wont work from the sound of it. But it may....

 

[bongomania]

The funny thing is, rearranging the pedal chain order was actually the most technically correct solution. The popping is caused by stray voltage leaking into the audio path, following the path of least resistance. When you step on a mechanical true bypass switch, it completely changes the path of least resistance, allowing a surge of voltage to move very quickly where it hadn't been before. A pedal chain is a large interactive circuit, so changing the parts or the order of the parts will change the behavior of the whole thing. When the pedal was in the position where it popped, stepping on its switch allowed that surge to leak into the audio path; when the pedal was relocated, that surge was able to go somewhere else instead, probably a ground plane, where it went unheard.