My Mosky Golden Horse is Microphonic

[Drak]

I have never heard a microphonic pedal before tonight, never ever.
I guess I now know why I need to spend the extra $1,970.00 for a real horse.
Under (well, super) high gain, when I tap on it with my finger, it sounds exactly like a microphonic tube, exactly like that.
Have never heard such a thing before.
I know, I know, if it makes the sound when you touch it, stop touching it...
TBH, I had other gain pedals downchain totally maxed...but still...

I said 'well, maybe I can work with it', so I turned on a few delays to see if I could stir up some percussive ambient magic with it.
But it doesn't pass through the signal chain 'like that' for some reason. Loud as hell tho.

I wonder if I can wax-pot it?
'You can't wax-pot a tube, but you can wax-pot a horse'.

 

[beaubrummels]

Before you wax anything, you might want to identify what exactly is making the sound. In a pedal, I would assume it's a resonance in the circuit needing a filter, not a physical element vibrating. If tapping generates it initially, I would expect some solder or connection is not solid, triggering an initial errant signal that then resonates in the circuit. But I don't think wax would likely be the answer.

 

[Mincer]

I'd open it, and test with a chopstick while plugged in to find out what component is causing this. Film it and send the video to the company and see what they say.

 

[Drak]

I'd open it, and test with a chopstick while plugged in to find out what component is causing this.
Film it and send the video to the company and see what they say.

You would really do all that with a $30.00 overseas pedal?
Does Mosky actually have human employees?
I'm not sure there are actually human representatives available to watch my video.
AAMOF, I think AI is behind all the lookalike imports, TBH.
And I already have the wax here, for free.
Of course, there are warranty concerns...

 

[formula73]

Meh. Warranty claim.

 

[Mincer]

You would really do all that with a $30.00 overseas pedal?
Does Mosky actually have human employees?
I'm not sure there are actually human representatives available to watch my video.
AAMOF, I think AI is behind all the lookalike imports, TBH.
And I already have the wax here, for free.
Of course, there are warranty concerns...

I'd totally do it. Maybe it is something they can fix if it is on all the pedals, or at least something they should know about.

 

[beaubrummels]

I wouldn't try to wax pot a device that wasn't intended to be handled that way. It takes less heat to remove components from surface mount boards than normal soldering. By subjecting it to hot wax, you could just end up destroying the circuit board in one go, instead of finding out what the specific problem is and fixing it.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Buying a different one would probably cost less than shipping this one back to China, even if it were possible to contact an actual person over there.

 

[Mincer]

I guess this is why people spend more $ on pedals.

 

[GuitarStv]

Duct tape it to a mic stand, and thank china for your new microphone!

 

[Aceman]

Just buy another

 

[CaptainWhizz]

Where was it purchased?

 

[Drak]

My next-door-neighbor keeps bees.
I'm gonna go over there and pick up some beeswax.

 

[Mincer]

Just buy another

This. If it isn't worth going through the hassle of contacting the company or the store, then buy another. Or spend a little more and get something from a company that will stand behind their products.

 

[Aceman]

This. If it isn't worth going through the hassle of contacting the company or the store, then buy another. Or spend a little more and get something from a company that will stand behind their products.

It's a $23 pedal. It wasn't worth typing this post.

 

[Drak]

So to wrap this up...
I'm not going to dip it in beeswax, OMG I Was Just Kidding! (but you knew that, right?)
It Only does it when I had other high-gain pedals downstream Completely Maxed (which is not realistic, I was just f-ing around that day)
Otherwise, it behaves OK.
Was quite weird tho, I really have never heard a pedal do that before.
But under normal circumstances, it works A-OK.

 

[Mincer]

It's a $23 pedal. It wasn't worth typing this post.

It wasn't worth typing the topic, but here we are.

 

[Drak]

It wasn't worth typing the topic, but here we are.

A microphonic pedal not worth a mention?
Oh contraire, it was well worth the thread, indeed.

 

[Masta' C]

https://www.google.com/search?q=microphonic+pedal

 

[beaubrummels]

The net-net is, only a proper investigation could isolate the source and determine the fix. Wax would not have solved this problem, but rather different components would be required:

https://e2e.ti.com/blogs_/archives/...sts-microphonics-in-ceramic-capacitors-part-1