Who does pedal repair?

Svengali

I've got an MXR Tremolo that died on me after a week (during which it was taken for a short test ride but once). It worked fine at first. Second time around, nothing... Either no signal or just some weird noise. Bough it new, but the retailer in Bloem did an awesome trade in for me, so I hardly payed anything for it and (shame on me) at first felt too monkey-faced to return it straight away.
Now - partially because of the time-lapse, but also because I'm afraid it's gong to be shipped of somewhere with me stranded, tremoless (Which I am, anyway) - I'm thinking rather of taking it to someone (in Jhb area preferably)
Any ideas?

While on this topic, two more things;
If Keira reads this topic, maybe she can let me know what she thought of this baby (the little I heard impressed me a great deal) as I heard she did some AB-ing on Tremolos rescently...
Also, where can I get its 18V-for-crying-out-loud power supply? Anyone spotted them or will I have to wait three months for a shipment like I did for the pedal in the first place?

(I also have a faulty Boss BCB-60 pedal board that needs fixing. One of the two return/output connections also dead as a dodo out of the shop. Reasons for not returning it, more or less the same as above [guess I know now why it was such a bargain])

THANKS

aja

Ok, I will tell you one person who could possibly help you if you can tell me where I can buy some horse sweat?

Squonk

I am also interested, I have a Digitech RP100 that stopped working.

In the JHB area

Svengali

aja wrote Ok, I will tell you one person who could possibly help you if you can tell me where I can buy some horse sweat?

Heehee.

Just sweat will do you no good, you also need the ring with a gaggle of geese.

But if you can help, I'll run seven times around the seven hills of Rome for you? :dance:

aja

Svengali wrote
aja wrote Ok, I will tell you one person who could possibly help you if you can tell me where I can buy some horse sweat?
Heehee.

Just sweat will do you no good, you also need the ring with a gaggle of geese.

But if you can help, I'll run seven times around the seven hills of Rome for you? :dance:

Oh that'll have to do!

JP le Roux
jp3zone@gmail.com
082 560 7257

He has done some pedal work in the past if I remember correctly, but I may be wrong.

Also worth trying some of these guys: (many of the joberg amp guys I have met started out by fixing solid state things such as Hi-fi's etc...)

Alan Ratcliffe wrote [amp] Repairers in the Gauteng area. I can't vouch for any of them myself, but this is the list from Mr. Valve's newsletter, so I presume they are not complete hacks ? :

Andy Barnes (072 310 7378) Sandton area, also solid state
Alan Hean (011-672 9897) Johannesburg area
J.P Le Roux (082 560 7257) Johannesburg area, service, repairs and modification
Martin Horne (082 536 3339) Pretoria area
Michael von Bulow (083 360 9172) Midrand area
William Lai (082 343 8830) Johannesburg area
Kim Williams (073 262 2167 or 083 245 3227) repairs and services most things electronic although he prefers valve equipment to solid state. Pretoria area.

Svengali

J.P. it'll be.

Thanks for the suggestion.

(Was tempted to go for von Bulow. First time I encounter that surname belonging to someone other than the famous Hans, Son in Law of Franz Liszt and dedicatée? of Tchaikovsky's first piano Concerto.)

Mr-M

Svengali wrote I've got an MXR Tremolo that died on me after a week (during which it was taken for a short test ride but once). It worked fine at first. Second time around, nothing... Either no signal or just some weird noise. Bough it new, but the retailer in Bloem did an awesome trade in for me, so I hardly payed anything for it and (shame on me) at first felt too monkey-faced to return it straight away.
Now - partially because of the time-lapse, but also because I'm afraid it's gong to be shipped of somewhere with me stranded, tremoless (Which I am, anyway) - I'm thinking rather of taking it to someone (in Jhb area preferably)
Any ideas?

Also, where can I get its 18V-for-crying-out-loud power supply? Anyone spotted them or will I have to wait three months for a shipment like I did for the pedal in the first place?

Only noticed this topic now.

Firstly, if it is still under warranty (usually 1 year) you should return it to the retailer. It would then get sent to us (the MXR distributor in SA) in JHB and be repaired at no charge to you if it failed because of a factory fault. Unless it is old stock of TOMS (the previous distributor for MXR), in which case they would handle the repair.

We have stock of the 18V power supplies at all times. If you want one, get your local retailer to order one in for you. Otherwise there are a number of stores in JHB that keep them.

LooneyAtTheGate

And anybody in Cape Town?
I have an Ibanez Phazer that has er.. stopped phazing. :'(

Svengali

Mr T wrote Only noticed this topic now.

Firstly, if it is still under warranty (usually 1 year) you should return it to the retailer. It would then get sent to us (the MXR distributor in SA) in JHB and be repaired at no charge to you if it failed because of a factory fault. Unless it is old stock of TOMS (the previous distributor for MXR), in which case they would handle the repair.

We have stock of the 18V power supplies at all times. If you want one, get your local retailer to order one in for you. Otherwise there are a number of stores in JHB that keep them.

Glory be.
Goes to show that there are truth in what I've heard, namely that 90% of the things people fear never actually comes to pass.

Thanks for letting me know. I will surely make work of it. :woohoo: