live and learn something about gear everyday

AlanRatcliffe

Oh, I've been there. ? It's almost always the simple, silly stuff. My personal best is spending two days rewiring a studio to fix a fault, only to realise I'd had the wrong input selected on the software. :-[

raithza

This is why I use colourful leads for everything ?

Mr-M

Joe Moore wrote: So , I get to practise on Saturday afternoon and my Pitchblack tuner is stone dead. ☹. I was still getting a by-passed signal through the pedal though.
I swopped power leads from another pedal , jiggle things around a bit , but it was still not working.
Anyhow , on Monday morning I go to Mr.T at Tuerk to have it checked out. He plugs it in and Voila ! it works ! ?

He asked one of the techs to check it out for dry joints etc anyhow. ( THNX Mr. T)

I get home after work , put it back on my board , power up and its still absolutely stone dead .
I check the guitar lead I was using ......and it was a stereo cable from a footswitch with stereo jacks :-[

A pleasure to help (in what little way we could). It was still cool to chat about gear and music anyway. ?

As for the stereo cable thing, let this thread stand as a monument for all eternity that serves to inform all Pitchblack users henceforth to not try using a stereo cable. ? I think we all learned something from this. ?

guidothepimmp

I distinctly remember a practice back in the day when I setup my pedals and was ready to make a right ol racket but nothing worked. A half hour later I realised I plugged my fiddle into the pedal output and my amp into the pedal input :-[

These days without pedals, I haven't had a plonker moment yet ?

Airguitar

A stereo jack will do that to almost all pedals. As long as we can laugh at ourselves afterward no harm done.

TomCat

I had a good one the other day.....set up an guitar for a friend and tested the guitar on my amp and all is well.......Paul comes home a little later and I ask him what he thinks of the tone etc and I plug the guitar in again and virtually nothing on bridge and neck PUP's but perfect in the middle position....... ? ? ??? ???

Turns out the lead I picked up (not the same lead as earlier) is my mono to stereo lead I use for my Headphone amp input...... ??? ??? :-[ :-[....really had me going.......