New Pawnshop Pedal Day

[Psyre]

rfurtkamp turned me on to these some time ago, and I found one at a pawnshop here back home, didn't have the PSA (which I just had to order for $20), but the price seemed right, given it powers up when I get the adapter haha, but it's very clean cosmetically and in good shape so I'm not too worried.



excited for dem bass synthz soundzz

[kosta]

Bunky's?

[Psyre]

I've never been there? Where is it?

This was at Dave's Diamond's and Gold on Michigan Ave about 3 miles down from Downtown. Super Ypsilanti type place with interesting people.

[kosta]

It could be gone for all I know. It was down on that eastern end of Michigan Ave. east of downtown out toward Value Village / Value World. I haven't been out that way in a few though.

[Psyre]

Ahh ok yea, I live right by value world. This is that same one then hahaha. Well there are 2, I think the one you are referring to is the one directly across the street of Dave's. I'll have to check it out too.

[kosta]

Bunky's Trade Center if memory serves, but that was a long time ago now.

[hbombgraphics]

NICE,
I love boss ME pedals

[Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.]

NICE,
I love boss ME pedals

its also a great way to ask someone to loan u some money.

boss ME 50 holmes.

[theavondon]

Hahaha, I laughed beyond hard at that

SPACEMAN HIGHFIVE

[excane]

Pawnshops can be a goldmine. Nice find.

[rfurtkamp]

Nice, the only things I can suggest (which I would have had I known!):

- Can fab the PSU out of a thrift shop HP inkjet printer and an appropriate fits in the hole cable end. Back when the Boss adapters were a ton more, that's what I did a lot since i had this horrible habit of leaving the adapter places and you could always find a PSU in the junk $1 bin of most thrift stores and chop the goes into ME unit plug off something else and you're done.
- The battery for the memory could well be old - if the unit has problems on powerup, etc.,that's step 1. It's one of the CR2032 nickel-sized coin batteries if I recall and my parts bin has it labelled correctly. Download the manual from Roland (it's there), read up on the factory reset procedure, do it when you get it, save a test patch somewhere, see if it sticks. That said, I've had batteries in one last 10+ years, I kid you not.
- Best programming tips I can give you for useful live performance is to make it so you put similar things in each of the 5 banks - i.e. if you wanted a synth wierd patch, and had a few, and didn't want a bank of just those, do Bank 1, Patch 1 synth wierd, Bank 2 Patch2 synth wierd too, etc, so when you switch banks you always know what's where.
- Mistracking the synth will be loads of fun. Bass or guitar - set the sensitivity right on the edge of sanity or a bit past for how you play, slam the thing a little off (slide a string off the fretboard, hit it percussively a little wrong, and you're off into 'what will it do' land that's repeatable with practice).
- The delay will go into infinite loop (or so nearly infinite it might as well be) at the highest feedback settings. Great for ambient pads and other stuff.

Enjoy, can answer any questions you have (including some troubleshooting probably) once you have it running.

[Psyre]

Awesome! I'm so glad you chimed in I almost put your name in the title to be sure of it haha, but I also knew pawn shop may have drawn you in. I was just at a thrift shop that had some HP's haha may go back and get a back up. Also thank thank you for the battery warning, I would have freaked out especially since I really worked the price down so much, the guy said it would be sold as is, and wrote it on the receipt.

[Psyre]

Rfurtkamp,

My psa came in and I am loving it, I have noticed it doesn't play too nicely with other pedals, is that true, or is there a way to manage it more properly?

[rfurtkamp]

Should be the patch levels and master level adjust to make it work - I slammed mine right after the pedalboard historically (was at the time when I first got it HM2 > ME-6B > Space Echo > Digitech RDS (x2) > Fender Bassman.

I ran the output on the HM2 relatively low as wel but I had to take into consideration the end of the chain and tape echo saturation (going into the ugly kind, not the friendly smooths out anything).

What troubles are you having?

[Psyre]

Best I can describe it with my knowledge is like a crazy buffer, and just a ton of sound with low effect output.