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Well, if you want to be sarcastic about it, we could reword the caveat to "Don't adjust trimpots on digital devices if you have no idea what you're doing, or what your intention is in doing so." I'm not advising people without electronic knowledge to open their boxes "and start turning ALL the adjustments" willy-nilly, to put their tongues on large capacitors or to run with pointy screwdrivers. I'm talking about a specific adjustment that many, many people have done to make their Digitech delays more usable in their own situations. Think about it: if it weren't meant to be adjustable, wouldn't it be a fixed resistor instead of a variable one? We're all aware that you have to open the device to access the trimpots; I'm not saying they should be used in the same way as panel controls. (Although there was a guy on the Benders list who recently replaced the trims on his PDS-4000 with regular, user-grabbable pots/knobs, and he was pretty happy with the results...) Yes, I agree with you that people shouldn't randomly change internal trimpot settings, and I don't think that's limited to digital equipment: for example, twiddling the tube bias controls on a nice old Marshall just to see what happens would be bad. But to make absolutist statements like 'Don't ever adjust trimpots' or 'All presets suck' (which is actually sorta contradictory in the sense that they're both intentional manufacturers' settings) reminds me of the days when recording engineers wore white lab coats and saw to it that the needle never, ever entered the red. Or when amp manufacturers saw 'distortion' as an evil to be exorcised through better, cleaner engineering. And yes, abusing musical equipment can make things break/smell funny/catch on fire and doesn't necessarily sound good. But remember, just as music evolves, the equipment used and more importantly the WAY the equipment is used evolves too. If something can be made more useful through modification, why not? Those mods, especially if espoused by a famous person, show up in some form or another the next generation of gear. Eddie Van Halen plugged his amp into a variac; we all know that's not good for tubes and transformers. But look how influential (for better or worse) that was on the next generation of amp circuits designed to more safely replicate the sound through hotter preamp stages... So please don't imply that ALL owners of musical electronics are ignorant simply because SOME are. Sure, there'll be some impetuous ones who'll mess the thing up and bring it in for repair, but you're either not doing business with those of us who quite ably do our own tech, or when you do hear of it, your response is similar to the black and white one you gave. -t- --- Will Brake <wbrake@comcast.net> wrote: > Go ahead, tweak away. Open all your boxes and start > turning all the > adjustments. I make more money that way, people > getting into their gear, > thinking they will get something "more" out of a box > by tweezing it. > > I'll admit, sometimes in rare instances this is the > case, but with > everyone complaining about the cost of this or the > sound quality of > that, you're best to keep your hands out!! > > Respect > > Will Brake > Soul Fruit Electronics > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Nelson [mailto:psychle62@yahoo.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:43 PM > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Subject: RE: rds7.6 > > It's a pretty well-known adjustment. You're trading > off fidelity for delay time, which in many cases is > perfectly appropriate in this day and age of lo-fi > and > granularity. > > Perhaps your caveat should read "Don't adjust > trimpots > on digital devices IF you want to keep > manufacturer's > spec." > --- Will Brake <wbrake@comcast.net> wrote: > > Don't adjust trim pots on digital devices. > > > > http://www.loopers-delight.com/tools/timemachine/timemachine.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com