Ibanez ES-2...Modulation mod?

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Ibanez ES-2...Modulation mod?

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Anyone? I'm aware this is a long shot, and even if someone out there managed to come up with a schematic for somekind of rate/speed control for the modulation, there's a good chance I won't have teh skillz to pull this off myself anyway :(

It's just that right now the modulation is completely useless to me. I don't normally care much for subtlety, but in this case it'd be great if I could somehow make that wobbly freakiness more musical/dreamy/psychedelic, and less over the top and annoying.

Either way it's still a killer delay for the money impo. The ability to play on top of a bed of nicely controllable mooshy ambient oscillation isn't something I dreamed to find in an affordable analog delay :)
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Re: Ibanez ES-2...Modulation mod?

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It looks like it's SMD, so unless you've got skills or cash it's gonna be tough. But, it's got trim pots -

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I'd open'r up, mark the stock settings with a pencil, and see what happens... If you're lucky one of the trims will be for modulation and you'll be able to dial in sumthin' you like.
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Re: Ibanez ES-2...Modulation mod?

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Thanks!

Hadn't open'd it yet, had no idea there were a bunch of trim pots in there. I must have missed that in the manual. Thanks for the tip, definately worth a shot.
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Be really careful with the trims and DEFINITELY make sure to mark the original places if you don't know which does what
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Yeah, I'd guess they're delay chip calibrators and have nothing to do with the modulation.
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Re: Ibanez ES-2...Modulation mod?

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On analog delays there are often on-the-board trimmers to optimize normal performance, like to avoid generally unpleasant noise levels and odd distortions. These things generally aren't a matter of tone seeking so much as final quality assurance adjustment. It's kind of a finicky balancing act of compromises to try to get good bandwidth, low noise, and maximize delay time. Usually there's kind of a narrow sweet spot of high fidelity-ish performance. While we tend to like some of the non-ideal zones for tone chasing, best to mark the original adjustments and go slow.
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