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Conference napalm::guitar

Title:GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion
Notice:Discussion of the finer stringed instruments
Moderator:KDX200::COOPER
Created:Thu Aug 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3280
Total number of notes:61432

568.0. "Death of a CE-1" by SRFSUP::MORRIS (Pretty maids all in a row) Mon Apr 04 1988 14:45

    
    I picked up a CE-1 Chorus for 5 bucks.  Deal of a lifetime, I think.
    All I had to do was replace the grounded power cord.  So I replace
    it, plug it in, and voila, an authentic CE-1 Chorus that works.
    
    So I screw on the back plate, hook it in-line with the rest of my
    effects, and what????? NOTHING!!!  I mess with every knob, and I
    don't get diddley.  So then I try plugging into the Stereo jack.
    This works fine on Vibrato mode (big deal, I don't play Duane Eddy),
    but what I get on Chorus mode is a real stair-step like pitch shift.
    Not smooth (or musically useful) at all.
    
    Can anybody tell me how to fix it??
    
    Thanx
    
    Ashley in smogland
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568.1Maybe it just needs a bit of cardboardBARTLS::MOLLERVegetation: A way of lifeMon Apr 04 1988 17:2110
    Sounds like something shorted out inside when you re-assembled it.
    Who ever had it before you probably tossed the paper liner that
    goes between the back plate (the one on the bottom) and the circuit
    board. If you have some stiff cardboard (like the stuff that they
    use in shirt packaging), you can cut another. You might also take
    a low wattage (30 watt) soldering iron & re-solder any suspicious
    solder joints. I often buy deal effects boxes only to find a broken
    wire, or replace the power connector (cheap ones avialable from
    radio shack). It's probably somthing simple.
    							Jens 
568.2SRFSUP::MORRISI make Sam Kinison look normalTue Apr 05 1988 19:386
    
    Thanks, I'll try it.  When I screwed the back panel on, I also
    tightened the screws that hold the circuit board mounts.  That could
    be the problem.  And you're right, there was no liner.
    
    Ashley