#gigadelay

[demb1981]

Foto de mi pedalera antes de una tocada con The Over-Manned Band en el Escena Monterrey (7 de diciembre, 2018). Le abrimos a Marrano Rosa quienes organizaron un tributo a Pink Floyd a beneficencia de los niños de la Fundación Enrique Yturria García, A.B.P. / Foto por Rodrigo Casas Gómez. 

[umasannemui]

Mandatory items of my sound #BOSS #DD-20 #gigadelay #epbooster #α6000 #sel50f18

[physticuffs]

why does United Airways have an entire Three working planes is this an airline or a hobby shop

[roundwoundsounds]

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Stairway to crazy reverb effects! #delay #reverb #phaser #guitar #telecaster #teletuesday #ledzeppelin #stairwaytoheaven #fingerpicking #guitarist #guitarists #atmosphere #bosspedals #gigadelay #ehx #smallstone #line6 #m5 #xoticeffects #epbooster #maxoneffects #cp101 (at London, United Kingdom)

[taperwolf]

This site had a DD-20 with the same encoder issue, and the same fix, but took a lot more (and better!) pictures.

Sadly, I'm having trouble finding a replacement button-pressing plastic nubbin, though the way I've just described it may be why.

Two new instances of music gear with my soldering iron marks all over 'em.

First is my Korg Mini Kaoss Pad 2S. I noticed one day that the side button which turns on the internal microphone — to record things, or to feed your voice into the vocoder settings — wasn't clicking, or working at all. So I took it apart to find the tiny tactile switch was entirely missing.

You can see where it should be, there on the right under the plastic button, by the white silk-screened outline labeled SW7. There are two tiny holes in the board that mate with pegs on the underside of the switch, but the whole thing somehow got knocked clean off. For a while, I couldn't find it at all. These switches are tiny, and I really worried about being able to find a surface-mount tact switch in a compatible size. Fortunately, when I went to close the case back up, it turned out to have been stuck to the magnet in the internal speaker. I soldered it back on without major difficulty.

The second is a newer acquisition.

This is an older guitar pedal, BOSS's DD-20 Digital Delay. It's still quite powerful by today's standards, with up to 23 seconds of delay, 11 modes including reverse delay and a looper, and tap tempo. On the left is the manufacturer's photo, and my unit is on the right; there are some obvious differences. I picked it up in somewhat compromised condition. The four knobs on the left were missing, the button labeled "tap" wouldn't click, and — most importantly — the rotary encoder on the right would glitch in such a way that you couldn't reduce the time or BPM setting. If you rotated it slowly counterclockwise, the setting would click down a few times, and then count upwards. The tap tempo on the foot switch still worked, so it could be used, but it was definitely suboptimal.

So I took it apart. It's designed very nicely; the whole thing is in two PCBs, the main board and the control board. The non-working tap switch turned out to be a broken plastic switch actuator. The switch on the board still works, so I just removed the actuator until I can locate or print a replacement. I've stuck a short bit of dowel to the switch with fun-tak, so it can be pressed with the case on.

The rotary encoder turned out pretty lucky. I happened to have mostly-compatible replacements on hand, which I got a couple years ago for a project I haven't gotten to yet.

I desoldered the original, seen on the left, from the board. As you can see, it's shorter, both in the body and in the shaft, than the replacements, but they're exact matches electrically and in the footprint, so the new one dropped right in. You may or may not be able to tell from the photo above, but both the cup around the encoder and the knob ride higher from the enclosure's surface than they did with the original, but it's perfectly serviceable. Once back together, everything works just as it should. (The replacement knobs on the left-hand pots are ones l likewise had on hand.)

The two units are an awfully stark contrast in builds. The Korg device is all tiny surface mount devices on a single board in a plastic shell; the Boss switches and other controls are through-hole devices on their own board, and the case is, save the backplate and battery compartment, made of large hunks of die-cast aluminum. Then again, they're very different use cases. The Mini Kaoss Pad is for DJs and producers, and meant to be safe in a pocket or bag, where the delay pedal is meant to be stomped on, day after day, by boot-wearing guitar players.

At any rate, fixing things feels good.

[pedaloftheday]

*NEW DEMO VIDEO* BOSS DD-20 Giga Delay (rehoused by Chesapeake Effects)

[thirtyoneninetysevenandahal-blog]

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Loops with Garrett and Xander. #loop #boss #Roland #dd20 #gigadelay #music

[imogenevarose-blog]

... This <3 :D !!! #boss #gigadelay #DD20

[jorgesantell-blog]

Ensayo Renacimiento #gigadelay #paulctim #delay #deluxememoryman #boots

[third-degree]

Late night worship session #PartialCapo #PatrioticCapo #GigaDelay #GatorPicks

[edwhite]

possibly the last piece to my pedal puzzle. #boss #roland #footswitch #pedalboard #dd20 #gigadelay

[roundwoundsounds]

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Playing around with delay-ay-ay-ay. #delay #boss #gigadelay #kingoftone #maxon #compressor #epbooster #xoticeffects #lespaul #bareknucklepickups #guitar #gibson #gibsonlespaul #modulation