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So basically i bought this bad boy at
the beginning of the month as a birthday present to myself took it out tested
it and then put it away until today, close enough to the big day xD
anyway to recap a previous post about it took it out the box the top of the
volume knob comes off, easy enough to glue back on but on a £250 pedal? Really?!
The size makes it board unfriendly, the jacks are the wrong way round, it can
only run off batteries and there’s no LED.
It sounds absolutely killer though perfect clapton, Hendrix, Stones and Page which was enough to forgive these faults, until today.
I opened up the back to put a battery in it close it back up plug it in
aaaaaaaaaand no sound.
swap batteries over and yet again no sound, so the back comes back off to have
a quick peak and the wire that connects the positive off of the battery snap to
the PCB has come clean off!
The wire was soldered onto a small lug with no hole or catch to hold the wire
it was literally just soldered straight on to small metal cylinder on the PCB
with so little solder that in changing the battery i managed to knock the wire
clean off!
Its not going to be a hard fix except that it would void my warranty so off it
goes back to Rotosound with a request that they actually put some solder on the
bloody thing this time and they can glue that knob back together while they’re
at it.
i don’t expect these issues with a JOYO let alone a British hand wired pedal
with a £250 street price!
This whole thing has left me wondering A) where the hell does the money these
things cost go because it sure as hell wasn’t on construction and am i
better off getting the damn thing rehoused? As i am left with serious doubts
that it would survive one day on the road.
Needless to say that if i had paid anywhere near the street price i would be demanding
a refund.
Rant over but head my warnings this pedal sounds unbelievably good but is
terribly built and poorly designed, consider me one disgruntled customer.
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Might be worth seeing if there is a clone or different boutique company selling the same circuit.
If half the units Rotosound have shipped out are of the same qualiy as mine then its going to cost them a fortune in basic repairs where they have either cut corners on materials, man power or QA earlier down the road.
Also given that the new price on mine was sub £100 i get the feeling that most of the reason for the high price is to make it feel exclusive so they have massively jacked up the rrp,
I want to love this pedal i really do but given that ive had iot for a day and making the simple repair to the circuit myself will void the warranty im already having to pay out to ship it back to rotosound for repairs
although i think its true bypass which is in its favour...
and your old cloursound is probably in some vintage store with £200 odd sticker on it gathering dust
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but untill then i'm getting some pretty damn cool fuzzy tones from the mighty valve sporker although this now means untill the return of the fuzz im OD/boostless and am sadly unable to get close to the right sound for satisfaction
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the lack of solder left it almost invisible to the naked eye and one of the feet was wonky as i descovered upon replacing it to send it off, yours on the other hand looks quite sturdy.
that is what im hoping to see when i finally get mine back.
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I bet they sound nice though. I'd love a proper analogue delay sometime, but they generally have a horrendous noise floor, regardless of manufacturer or cost. Digital emulation has gotten too good for it to be an issue.
It'll be interesting to know what the other circuits are. An eq with 3 knobs could be different, and I love a fast phaser on my clean sounds.
mainly because i dont want any more pedals of this damn size and that use batteries otherwise i would have grabbed the roland phaser that was for sale on here.
still waiting on the return of my fuzz though :S
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