That doesn’t sound good bud! Really there should be some strong ‘service recovery’ when things mess up in any service sector business. Often if problems are handled well the customer will not lose faith at all.
Yeah prices on these (like a lot of things) has gone crazy. Last year I picked up some sets from Bass Direct for less than £40. Still my favourite strings, can’t afford to change them now anyway !
I used my Warwick Rock power block, I had the 9v version so it worked well. I’d use the ebs 9v power supply which came with it when I had many pedals on the board as it’s quite a big power drain
Recently sold my Valvedrive, an excellent bit of kit much like all EBS pedals I’ve tried. I used it just to add some valve/tube warmth and was excellent for that. I don’t really use overdrive so I can’t comment on that and I had the eq flat (but not flat as mentioned above 👆😂😂) whenever I used it. I did a session with it where we we going for an Amy Winehouse- Valerie sort of tone and it nailed it along with some eq’in