Deluxe Memory Man Keeps Overloading

[Pink Unicorn Horsey]

I have a vintage Deluxe Memory Man (the five-knob version with the attached AC cord). There's an Overload LED that comes on whenever the signal clips. The Level knob is there to compensate for that. Here's the problem:

If I plug my Strat directly into the DMM, then into my amp (nothing else in between), almost no amount of fussing with the Level know will prevent the Overload LED from lighting. I would have to turn my guitar's volume way down or play very lightly to prevent the signal from clipping.

Here's my question:

WTF?

- Keith

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Deluxe Memory Man Keeps Overloading

How does it sound, when you are not looking at that silly LED??
Analouge delays are almost never clean, but I think that there is a mod for it!
I will see if I can remember where I saw it!
Niels

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Deluxe Memory Man Keeps Overloading

I have never used a DMM that didn't overload unless it had been modded...how long have you had yours? Did it just start?

 

[Pink Unicorn Horsey]

Re: Deluxe Memory Man Keeps Overloading

Actually, in putting it through my Loop Master, the actual guitar tone doesn't sound particularly clipped compared to the bypassed signal, but that damned LED is flashing like a disco dance floor.

I get some rather crappy hiss that may just be the way it goes with DMMs. I'll see if I can post a quick audio clip of it. Give me a few minutes.

- Keith

 

[Pink Unicorn Horsey]

Re: Deluxe Memory Man Keeps Overloading

Okay, here's the clip:

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=473676

What's with the hiss?

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Deluxe Memory Man Keeps Overloading

Keith, FWIW I think it sounds great...it actually makes me hate my Digital delay even more!!! I used to have a couple of choice analog delays (An old Deluxe Memory Man, a green MXR and an old Ibanez) and sold them when I was low on cash, I wish I stilkl had them to be honest.Anyway, forget the LED...if it really overloads you'll hear it and as for the hiss...as much as I hate to say it I have never owned a truly quite EH box...and I have owned a lot of EH boxes!

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Deluxe Memory Man Keeps Overloading

Hehe that is not much of hiss....it is the compander you can hear, the noisereducer....that is how the chips sound naturally, they need to be clocked to a faster setting to regulate the hiss away, but that means sticking a few more chips in there and make it as expensive as the Maxon 999, that is made the good way!