Is there a worse FX feeling....?

Gassage

Than coming home after a day's work to realise you've left the jacks in a battery powered pedal that has no batt compartment access and needs unscrewing for new batt insertion....?

ARGGGHHH!

THird time in a week....

professorben

Yep.......doing exactly that at a sound check.

Gassage

Ok- the killer is it was this...2 x 9v batts

Sassafras

Can't you get it converted to run off a supply or is very vintage and rare?

monquixote

This is why I don't use anything that won't run off a PSU.

Gassage

Sassafras said:

Can't you get it converted to run off a supply or is very vintage and rare?

Very V and R (esp in that condition) but yes, however, 18v with cent neg. Gigrig do one.

viz

Gassage said:

THird time in a week....

And it's only Wednesday

DesVegas

Stick an 'Unplug Me' sticker on it

viz

Or glue the jack lead into your guitar. 

Wazmeister

Yep, there is a worse feeling... Brand new pedals D.O.A.

fretfinder

Or forgetting to take a spare battery to a gig and the pedal dies early on...

ThorpyFX

yes, the instant realisation that you've put the wrong power into a pedal shortly followed by that nice carcinogenic smell of ruined electrolytics and transistors....

Wazmeister said:

Yep, there is a worse feeling... Brand new pedals D.O.A.

you really need to stop putting 9kV into your pedals - its 9v generally!!!

impmann

ThorpyFX said:

yes, the instant realisation that you've put the wrong power into a pedal shortly followed by that nice carcinogenic smell of ruined electrolytics and transistors....

This

Aidanspaghetti

Or sand in ur kecks. Thats rough.

MrT

Knowing that another parcel is on its way that you haven't quite admitted to yet?

simonbeckwith

Aidanspaghetti said:

Or sand in ur kecks. Thats rough.

I dunno, i love a gritty sack!!