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Topic: Serious LDR2 problem / flaw |
Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 2 Jul 2006 11:16 am |
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Yesterday, I was playing an outdoor gig. This was the first time outside for my Goodrich LDR2 volume pedal. The sun was directly in front of us. I noticed my volume pedal was full on at the off position and as I pressed down on the pedal, the volume would decrease and then come back up. As I was struggling to figure out what was wrong with the pedal, another band member stood in front of the pedal blocking the sun and the pedal worked great. Fortunately we were playing on a low flatbed truck and we could put the PA speaker in front of the stage to block the sun from getting into the volume pedal.
Has anyone else found this to be a problem? What have you done to get around this problem? |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 2 Jul 2006 1:26 pm
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| I have a Morley wah pedal that did the same thing to me, so I took some black electrician's tape and taped up all the leak sites I could find. If you double the tape over, you can even get like a little gasket to insulate the moving parts. I only had the problem temporily, but if you're playing a lot outside you could whip up something more permanent out of inner-tube rubber or a drawing board pad or something. Without knowing the exact pedal I don't know what to plug, but if the light is reflecting up under it even a black t-shirt or rag of some sort could be tucked in around it for a quick fix. |
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Keith Hilton
From:
248 Laurel Road Ozark, Missouri 65721
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Posted 2 Jul 2006 7:38 pm
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| That has been and continues to be one of the major problems with using light sensitive resistors. All of the old light beam pedals use light sensitive resistors, the same thing that turns street lights on and off. The best solution to this problem is to carry a dark colored towel and put it over the pedal. Light gets in all around the pedal where the top and bottom join. This is not a problem with my pedal, the Hilton pedal. Even if you took my pedal apart, and exposed it to the direct sun, my pedal will still work perfectly. You don't need to throw a towel over my pedal, it is not bothered by the sun, or bright lights. I invented a totally new process. My United States Patent was granted in February of this year, by the United States Patent Office, so you won't see any other pedals using the Hilton patented electronic process. There is a very, very, small number of people who seem to dislike me for inventing something new, and that I can't understand. All I wanted to do is build a better volume pedal, and it seems the United States Patent office thinks I have. I would like to thank the many thousands of players using my pedal. Thanks! |
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Michael Garnett
From:
Seattle, WA
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Posted 3 Jul 2006 12:59 pm
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Bright lights... big city... went to my pedal's head...
Love that Hilton pedal!
-MG |
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Mike Archer
From:
church hill tn
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Posted 4 Jul 2006 7:45 am
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the hilton vol pedal is the only one i will use ...........i have had no trouble with mine at all and it has cut out a lot of
noise and junk out of my sound
it is so clean and easy to use
i wont go back to a pot pedal of any kind
from here on out
great work Keith!! |
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Richard Sinkler
From:
aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 5 Jul 2006 6:21 pm
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Please close this thread. It is turning into an ad for the Hilton pedal and that was not what I asked for.
By the way, the dark towel trick did not work. I tried it on an outside gig on the 4th. Good thing I took my old pot pedal with me. |
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