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The UI is fantastic once you figure out that the pedals are to be wired exactly backwards, with input on the right side, output on the left.
by trasz 4y ago
The UI is fantastic once you figure out that the pedals are to be wired exactly backwards, with input on the right side, output on the left.
- jrajav 4y agoThis signal flow is only backwards if you're left-handed (like a lot of the world). If you're right-handed, imagine you just plugged in your guitar and then tossed the cable off to one side. You probably just chucked it to the right, away from the plug. Now look down at your pedalboard, right in front of you. The signal flow probably starts most naturally on the right side, near where you just tossed your cable.
- trasz 4y agoIt’s always backwards, unless in your culture schematics are written right to left - no idea if rtl folks also write schematics right to left, but I suspect they might.
- analog31 4y agoAnd negative on the center terminal of the power supply plug.
- marshray 4y agoThose easily-detached non-locking barrel jacks for power are definitely the weak point of guitar pedal design.
- dwringer 4y agoAlways double check this, there are still some exceptions.
- analog31 4y agoThe worst one on the bandstand is the 12 V supply for keyboards, which are center-positive. I opened up one effects pedal once, and an electrolytic capacitor had completely blown its top off, and the contents were spewed throughout the enclosure.
- doubled112 4y agoI have a 9V AC adapter (yes, as in AC output) for an older Digitech multi-effects. Every other piece of gear I own is 9V DC, and that's something that is easy to miss.
- analog31 4y agoYup, the AC adapter, followed by opposing half-wave rectifiers, was a convenient way to get positive and negative DC supplies from a single adapter. I've used those in the lab for making gadgets, usually with a huge warning label.
- asdff 4y agoNot hard to do considering many pedals have a label for input and output