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I'm planning to put some pedals underneath my board. Basically some stuff that's always one and which settings won't be changed at all. However, some of these pedals are switched off when I first power my pedalboard, while others automatically turn on when powering the board. Since I don't want to flip my board over every time I connect the power jack, I was wondering if there's a way of changing the turn on/off behaviour of pedals? I know that for some of the newer digital ones you can choose this in the global settings, but I assume for analog or more simple pedals, you just have to take it as it is, right? On that note, does anyone know whether the small TC Electronic pedals (e.g. Spectracomp or Spark mini) turn on automatically when powered?

My thoughts exactly. However, you could also build a pedalboard including your ME50B, e.g. have an individual Octaver and fuzz pedal at the beginning of the chain going into the ME50B. Maybe stick with the multifx for now to explore the world of effects, find out what you like/need, and then check out some individual effects and test them against their counterparts in the ME50B.

Hi, thanks for the response. You're absolutely right, and I'm fully aware of that, but I'm fairly sure something's wrong with my T-70. Easiest example: If I turn everything down in one of the T-65 circuits, and only open the clean channel, I should only get my clean signal (with maybe a tiny bit of noise interference from the octave up feature that I would fully tolarate). However, that signal is quite distorted. Generally, all the "unwanted" noise that I get from my T-70 doesn't sound like the synthy octave up sound but clearly like a headroom issue. A friend of mine is further able to emulate the classic Nerve OC2 sound by putting the filter between 2 and 3 o'clock, however this also results in a distorted signal for me despite identical settings. Anyways, thank you very much for recommending Owen electronics. I'll contact them and see what they think about my T-70

Hi all, I've purchased a COG T-70 through the forum here a few weeks ago but unfortunately it seems to have some headroom issue. If I play as gentle as possible, or turn down the volume of my bass to an absolute minimum, it's fine but as soon as I turn up the volume a little bit or play normally, the T70 starts to distort the signal. Even if everything is turned down and only one of the clean channels is open, the signal distorts quite noticeably. As to the best of my knowledge COG shut down a while ago (at least temporarily) and I don't know anything about fx circuits and how to fix them, I am searching for someone here in the forum who can either fix/help me fixing my T70, or some suggestions for shops/people to get in contact with. As I've only moved to the UK last year, I'm a bit lost who to talk to for these kind of issues... Thanks in advance for any help, Cheers, Chris

I've ordered a Broughton Synth Voice Deluxe from Canada last year with the intention to pick it up from a friend's house in the US, but due to some delay I just got it a few weeks ago. While it worked perfectly fine in the beginning, at some point it stopped producing any sounds. When the pedal is bypassed, the signal goes through perfectly fine, but when engaged the pedal doesn't make any sounds. The LED is still working (so it's not fully broken), and I definitely didn't fry the pedal by using a wrong power supply. I've been in contact with Josh from Broughton, and he said that most likely static charge fried a chip or two. So I ordered the potentially fried chips, which arrived today, and exchanged them, but the problem still remains. Josh then offered that I can send the pedal back to him and he'll repair it, so basically now I have two questions to the basschat community: 1) Did anyone of you ever send a pedal back and outside of the UK for repairment? If so, how does this work in terms of import taxes? As I already paid for the pedal last year, and the repair service will be for free, there is nothing to be taxed, and according to the internet I don't need to pay import taxes. Can Josh therefore just declare the pedal repair with $0 on the declaration form and it will go through customs without any questions, or is there a specific way these types of repairs need to be handled? 2) To avoid any potential problems with 1), is there someone in the UK that could repair the pedal? Unfortunately, I don't know anything about electronics and PCBs and changing the chips was probably the only thing I could have done on my own. It would be great if you can share some tips how to handle this the best, or share some experience you've made in the past! Thanks, Chris