Our story begins with me selling my Delay Llama Xtreme to a fellow Fretboarder, a decent, honest chap who I’ve sold gear to previously without issue. I did a cursory check that everything was as it was when I bought it, then sent it up to my homeland north of the border.
I received a WhatsApp message from the buyer the day after he’d received the pedal, he’d posted a video clip. The pedal was connected on his board, all powered up properly by the looks of things, he engaged the pedal… amd nothing. No repeats. He dialled the mix and repeats to full (with the time dial at 12 noon, roughly 400ms), and absolutely nothing still, just the dry signal. He switched the toggle to Kill Dry, and there was silence, not a peep.
Obviously concerned, and not being a twat, I agreed to buy it back off him for what he paid me, and the pedal was sent back.
It arrived this morning, so connected it up on my board, switched it on, and it was working, exactly as well as it was working before I sent it to him, repeats were there on the core delay sound and all the Xtreme modes.
Why? I have no idea how this could happen… pedals aren’t sentient (yet), they don’t decide to work according to different players, power supplies… does anyone have any idea what the issue could be?
A further note: something I did notice with this pedal is that the tap tempo hold function (causing the repeats to oscillate) was only working when the delay dial time was set to 12 noon or further CCW, and the repeats dial was not as sensitive to oscillation as the previous time I had this pedal: you seem to get less repeats on this particular unit on the same R dial positions as the previous unit I had.
All a bit of a mystery really, and the buyer and myself are both a bit baffled. What do people think?
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If your buyer was using an under rated power supply which can't supply enough current (manual says 130mA recommended) then it may work in dry mode but the delay side could have problems, hence no sound.
This has occurred on every PSU I have tried it with. Baffling