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RE: EDP pedals
I've started wearing special Echoplex Shoes (TM)! ;-)
My pedal only sees those or bare feet...
Bernhard
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Travis Hartnett [mailto:tiktok@sprintmail.com]
> Sent: Mittwoch, 15. September 2004 16:14
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: EDP pedals
>
>
> Sounds to me like dirt is getting into your switches, and/or the
> replacements are wearing out. This happens to me with my stock EDP
> pedals when I play places with particularly gritty floors. With the
> beige units, after about twenty minutes I could see a buildup of crap
> around the oft-used switches, and usually shortly thereafter I'd start
> to get the behavior you're describing. My solution was do a quick
> sweep of the area I'd be standing in before I started playing, and
> cleaning off the footpedal when it started to look dirty. Also a good
> idea to manually press the switches a couple dozen times to break up
> any crap that might have fallen in. That said, I've yet to replace
> any of my switches, since the cleaning always fixes it.
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 15, 2004, at 6:21 AM,
> Loopers-Delight-d-request@loopers-delight.com wrote:
>
> > From: "steve.sandberg" <steve.sandberg@earthlink.net>
> > Date: September 14, 2004 8:15:24 PM PDT
> > To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> > Subject: Re: EDP pedals
> >
> >
> > Wondering if anyone can help me out about this -
> > I've had two EDP pedals remade with nice metal switches, because the
> > red
> > plastic ones keep malfunctioning -
> > and now the metal ones are beginning to malfunction in the same way;
> > the
> > button presses are inconsistent, sometimes I press mute and it triggers
> > insert, or press multiply and it triggers overdub, that kind of thing.
> > Isn't there any way to have an EDP pedal that just works? Sorry, I'm
> > tired
> > and a bit bitchy but I really would love to have a pedal that just
> > works
> > consistently.
> > Any ideas about this? Worst comes to worst, does anyone know anyone
> > in NYC
> > who could repair these pedals without charging too much? I'm no good
> > at
> > soldering or that kind of thing -
> > thanks, guys.
>