Hi! I read a review on this item at harmonycentral and a guy there had problems with the strobostomp (If you don't want to read all he wrote just go to the buttom and I try to explain there):
"I picked one up at the Guitar Center. It Died on my second gig with it..no sound going into pedal unless I wiggled the jack..then completely dead. I was babying it to.
Cheap jacks mounted directly to the circuit board. Come on...for $200 I expect reliability. ( I have some experience fixing electronics, this method is the worst.)
Took it back, they replaced it with a another.
I was at first not to psyched upon opening the box,because the front panel (the read out screen of the pedal)was sticking up as if it came unglued.
I pushed it back into place and it kinda stayed. I figured down the road a tiny drop of superglue would do the trick....
THEN... I noticed the new one tracked wierd, went from all the little bars drifting down to up in a tiny tweak of the key. The first Pedal I had.. hung out in the "in tune Zone" resulting in a guitar that rang like a tuned up Steinway.
I ended up taking 4 times longer to tune my guitars, and I STILL had to make a tweak or two by ear.
THEN....The NEW ones screen completely froze at the first rehersal. All the bars stuck in one spot. Changed the battery, flipped the switches... D. E. A .D . ......Dead.
I LOVE the concept of this pedal, so I figured one more shot.
The new one had the same issue with the screen sticking up, but performed flawlessly, like the first.
Take a piece of advice. The logical place for this pedal in your pedal chain is first, BUT>>>>> BE SMART... put a pedal in FRONT of it, so it is NOT what connects your pedal board and guitar. Put something there more robust, which seems to be about any other pedal on the planet. Or.. you can disregard what I say, and remember me when you bump your cord at the gig, and your sound vanishes.
When I picked up my 3rd pedal (!)I opted to dish out another $20 for the GC extended warranty. I believe they have the option to fix or replace, but being this is my 3rd one if this F%$ks up I want a new one on the spot, or they better call security, and he better be a badass UFC slingin Mofo to deal with me when I'm pissed."
Is it so that if you plug the jack from your guitar to the Peterson first and then to some other effects, etc the strobostomp might quit working? Or has this guy just been very unlucky or did something wrong? Just got my strobostomp and don't want to have any unnecessary problems..
"I picked one up at the Guitar Center. It Died on my second gig with it..no sound going into pedal unless I wiggled the jack..then completely dead. I was babying it to.
Cheap jacks mounted directly to the circuit board. Come on...for $200 I expect reliability. ( I have some experience fixing electronics, this method is the worst.)
Took it back, they replaced it with a another.
I was at first not to psyched upon opening the box,because the front panel (the read out screen of the pedal)was sticking up as if it came unglued.
I pushed it back into place and it kinda stayed. I figured down the road a tiny drop of superglue would do the trick....
THEN... I noticed the new one tracked wierd, went from all the little bars drifting down to up in a tiny tweak of the key. The first Pedal I had.. hung out in the "in tune Zone" resulting in a guitar that rang like a tuned up Steinway.
I ended up taking 4 times longer to tune my guitars, and I STILL had to make a tweak or two by ear.
THEN....The NEW ones screen completely froze at the first rehersal. All the bars stuck in one spot. Changed the battery, flipped the switches... D. E. A .D . ......Dead.
I LOVE the concept of this pedal, so I figured one more shot.
The new one had the same issue with the screen sticking up, but performed flawlessly, like the first.
Take a piece of advice. The logical place for this pedal in your pedal chain is first, BUT>>>>> BE SMART... put a pedal in FRONT of it, so it is NOT what connects your pedal board and guitar. Put something there more robust, which seems to be about any other pedal on the planet. Or.. you can disregard what I say, and remember me when you bump your cord at the gig, and your sound vanishes.
When I picked up my 3rd pedal (!)I opted to dish out another $20 for the GC extended warranty. I believe they have the option to fix or replace, but being this is my 3rd one if this F%$ks up I want a new one on the spot, or they better call security, and he better be a badass UFC slingin Mofo to deal with me when I'm pissed."
Is it so that if you plug the jack from your guitar to the Peterson first and then to some other effects, etc the strobostomp might quit working? Or has this guy just been very unlucky or did something wrong? Just got my strobostomp and don't want to have any unnecessary problems..
