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Re: Electro Harmonix SmallStone

6/16/1999 12:03 PM
Matt Farrow	Re: Electro Harmonix SmallStone Actually, the old 'Stones have the same problem. The bleed-through of oscillator noise is caused by the board layout and also by the SPDT bypass switch. If you want no problems in bypass mode, re-do the switching to RG's Millennium Bypass (if you still want the LED.) That takes care of volume drop in bypass (no more tone-sucking.) Now for the volume drop with the effect switched in: the problem I had on my older 'Stone (1978) was that the first transistor gain stage wasn't biased correctly. Email me and I'll dig out the shem with my notes. --- Farrow www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Canal/7486

6/16/1999 12:03 PM

Matt Farrow

Re: Electro Harmonix SmallStone

Actually, the old 'Stones have the same problem. The bleed-through of oscillator noise is caused by the board layout and also by the SPDT bypass switch. If you want no problems in bypass mode, re-do the switching to RG's Millennium Bypass (if you still want the LED.) That takes care of volume drop in bypass (no more tone-sucking.) Now for the volume drop with the effect switched in: the problem I had on my older 'Stone (1978) was that the first transistor gain stage wasn't biased correctly. Email me and I'll dig out the shem with my notes.

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Farrow

www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Canal/7486