Rebote 2.5 testing/troubleshooting

[blanik]

hi all, i just finished my Rebote 2.5 delay and it sound AMAZING!!! i've been using a DD-3 for years but this one sounds so much cooler... (prior to the DD-3 i was using a Roland Space Echo and this thing reminds me of it! no joke!)

I was testing it without a switch or enclosure and without any other effects (ie: no distotion in front) the only thing i wasn't shure about was a slight background noise (not the "the ground is not connected" type) even with the volume on the guit. shut closed i could still ear a slight, irregular, hiss/hum (specially at high volume on the amp) it's not something that would make me go back to the DD-3 but i was just wondering if anyone of you made it and found it to be totally silent...

the reason i'm not shure is that i used three 0.083 uF (a .068 uF in parallel with a .015 uF) caps instead of the recommended 0.082 uF (wich i didn't have at hand... and who would have waited one more minute before testing a new effect for a mere 0.001 uF difference?  ) could those cap change induce a slight backgroud noise or should look elsewhere (or stop looking at all 'cause it's normal for the PT2399 to produce some noise?)

thanks

R.

[blanik]

once enclosed, the slight noise disseapeard (probably the aligator clips i was using to connect some stuff were the culprits).. it's now very silent and very amazing... i can't beleive the sound of that thing!

the only drawback (very little) is that the reapeats are a little distorted (specially on longer settings) but that's a know feature (bug)... anyway it's barely noticeable when using it with distortion

would putting in the 3 real cap values help with this bug or is it pointless to get those?

R.

[bancika]

Noise dissapeared because now enclosure shields circuit from noise.
As for caps, they won't help with distortion. I used all caps like specified and still get little distortion

[blanik]

hi again, i tried my Rebote 2.5 this afternoon at our reashall and i really dig the sound but at higher amp volumes the delayed signal isn't as loud as on my DD-3... i know that after the whiper on the level pot (maxed) there's a cap (1uF) and a resistor (33k), would i get a little more gain by changing ant of those values? it would be perfect if i could get juste a little more!

R.

[DuncanM]

The first thing I'd try is reducing the 33k resistor.... 

[blanik]

by how much?

[DuncanM]

A total guess but.... 22k should give you a touch over 3dB more gain on the delay side. You could try that to start with.

I thought that the stock values should produce delays slightly louder than the original signal - is this not the case?

[blanik]

i did a lot of jamming with my Rebote 2.5, it sounds great by itself but i thought it didn't cut through enough with the band (read: a signer and sequencers in an extra loud PA... )

i tried lowering the resistor value on the wet signal, it helped a little but it still wasn't there yet...
it kind of dawned on me that it might not be a level problem but an EQ problem, Mr Pena mentionned that the 2.5 has some more high freq cutoff than the 2.0 (to make it sound more analog) but i think it might be just a little to dark to come through the live setting

does anyone made both of them? is the difference subtle or quite obvious?

thanks

R.