CandidPicker
Tone Matters. Use It Well.
Yesterday, I thought I had chanced upon a higher meaning to life when watching a college football game. Once I'd discovered it, I was besides myself with joy.
One of the commentators had said to the other sitting next to him, "Don't worry, they'll figure it out soon enough."
To which I said (to the TV, of course), "Heck, if you people didn't make it so confusing in the first place, we wouldn't need to figure things out." I was rewarded.
Then, today, I was taught a lesson. I had hoped to enjoy some guitar practice with my recently rebuilt effects board.
What was the lesson?
Before shipping the pedal, I had rebuilt my effects board so that the correct amperage draws would be portioned out to my 2 power supplies, which could handle the appropriate mA draw.
Yet when I plugged in this afternoon and powdered up, no signal. Could it be that the repair was faulty? Not likely. So, I struggled with the effects board for about 1-½ hours, trying to learn what the diagnosis was for my no-signal issue.
Then I remembered some advice from a guitar forum member once gave: Work backwards and check each continuity point.
I first tried each pedal to check if a pedal was faulty. Nope. Each pedal checked out individually as passing signal.
Then, working from amp output to guitar input, I checked each effect cable connection at the loop switcher points, being sure that the effects were powered on, had adequate levels, and passed signal as I went towards the beginning of the effects. Each effects connector cable passed muster except for cables that were not part of the loop switcher I/Os.
The cables that weren't part of the loop switcher I/Os were then removed, and tested each for continuity with my cable tester. Each passed muster.
I couldn't figure it out. The loop switcher tested OK. What was the problem? My patience was getting thin.
I then looked closer with my flashlight at the loop switcher inputs. The dagblurn tuner was plugged into the loop switcher input, not the tuner out. I nearly peed myself, I was both so overjoyed and so pissed regards my lack of insight that I then realized something profound.
Yesterday, I was so happy I had found something universally understandable while watching a football game, but today, I was humbled because what I couldn't figure out was caused by my own two hands that created an error. Apparently, the lesson was that people make things confusing and complicated by their own hands, when if we were to keep things uncomplicated and the way life was intended, we'd not need to try to figure the mysterious things out.
Thanks, Big Guy, I owe you one and then some...
One of the commentators had said to the other sitting next to him, "Don't worry, they'll figure it out soon enough."
To which I said (to the TV, of course), "Heck, if you people didn't make it so confusing in the first place, we wouldn't need to figure things out." I was rewarded.
Then, today, I was taught a lesson. I had hoped to enjoy some guitar practice with my recently rebuilt effects board.
What was the lesson?
Before shipping the pedal, I had rebuilt my effects board so that the correct amperage draws would be portioned out to my 2 power supplies, which could handle the appropriate mA draw.
Yet when I plugged in this afternoon and powdered up, no signal. Could it be that the repair was faulty? Not likely. So, I struggled with the effects board for about 1-½ hours, trying to learn what the diagnosis was for my no-signal issue.
Then I remembered some advice from a guitar forum member once gave: Work backwards and check each continuity point.
I first tried each pedal to check if a pedal was faulty. Nope. Each pedal checked out individually as passing signal.
Then, working from amp output to guitar input, I checked each effect cable connection at the loop switcher points, being sure that the effects were powered on, had adequate levels, and passed signal as I went towards the beginning of the effects. Each effects connector cable passed muster except for cables that were not part of the loop switcher I/Os.
The cables that weren't part of the loop switcher I/Os were then removed, and tested each for continuity with my cable tester. Each passed muster.
I couldn't figure it out. The loop switcher tested OK. What was the problem? My patience was getting thin.
I then looked closer with my flashlight at the loop switcher inputs. The dagblurn tuner was plugged into the loop switcher input, not the tuner out. I nearly peed myself, I was both so overjoyed and so pissed regards my lack of insight that I then realized something profound.
Yesterday, I was so happy I had found something universally understandable while watching a football game, but today, I was humbled because what I couldn't figure out was caused by my own two hands that created an error. Apparently, the lesson was that people make things confusing and complicated by their own hands, when if we were to keep things uncomplicated and the way life was intended, we'd not need to try to figure the mysterious things out.
Thanks, Big Guy, I owe you one and then some...
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