So today was all about Small Life Form. I practiced for the live show tomorrow & I did some little video things & I recorded a potential album. Also I finally got the problem I’ve been having with live shows where half my pedal board stops working (the left side) to happen at my house where I had time to find the problem. It was the Digitech Jamman & I cleaned the pots & that still didn’t seem to fix it (the problem is with the quarter inch input, the XLR input seems to work fine & so I ordered a quarter inch to XLR cable so the pedal should work for me again after that). So I yanked that pedal out of the board & replaced it with my 1990s delay/looper – the Digitech PDS 1002. Man, I used to love that pedal & it was pretty key to Remora from 1995-2001. So I’m kinda looking forward to having it back in my rig. I actually had a problem figuring the pedal out because it is so beat-up (it’s from before I had a pedal board & I bought it used, so it’s lived a rough life) that you can’t read the writing & I was plugging into the bypass jack instead of the input jack. I’ve been thinking about re-working my pedal board for a while anyhow. Next up may be replacing the volume pedal with a wah & adding another envelope filter….
True story: my wah pedal is used mostly as a volume pedal. Also last night james knocked my JC-120 off a ledge and it fell approximately 5 ft. to the concrete floor and still works just as well as it did pre-drop. (i dunno what it is with bassists and knocking that amp over)
naught for nowt, i used to have a similar power issue but it was because when i stomped on a pedal, a certain part of the powersupply would touch a medal piece of something else and short out the board.
You know, the JC-120 is a tank that I can’t over recommend to anyone.
Yeah, the thing with this pedal is it’s not acting consistently & since it’s not true bypass it cuts the signal out even when it’s not in use. I’ll post up some stuff with the replacement pedal tonight. It kinda significantly alters the sound when you have a two-second loop instead of a two minute loop. Not necessarily in a bad way, but it makes things feel a little more trancey than droney.