Chris Schlotzhauer
From: Colleyville, Tx. USA
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Posted 23 May 2019 10:37 am
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I did a gig recently with it and when I powered it up...all of the effects were on and the knobs did nothing to shut them off.
In a panic, I plugged a guitar cable into the footswitch jack, shorted the cable, and the effects shut off.
Now that doesn't seem to work. I do not own a footswitch that matches the Cube
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Peter Harris
From: South Australia, Australia
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Posted 24 May 2019 1:18 am Re: Need Advise on My Roland Cube 80
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Chris Schlotzhauer wrote: |
I did a gig recently with it and when I powered it up...all of the effects were on and the knobs did nothing to shut them off.
In a panic, I plugged a guitar cable into the footswitch jack, shorted the cable, and the effects shut off.
Now that doesn't seem to work. I do not own a footswitch that matches the Cube
any ideas |
Hi Chris, not sure I can diagnose why you had the problem to begin with, but...
...on my Cube 60 amps, (and in the Cube 80XL Owners manual I just looked at online) the footswitches trigger the On & Off functions for effects by BREAKING the circuit, not COMPLETING it...in other words, the switch "Polarity" (Roland/Boss's terminology, not mine) must be set to "Normally Closed".
The fact that you were able to trigger a change by shorting (presumably) between the tip & the shell seems to be at odds with what would be expected, and it makes me wonder whether:-
A) The contacts in the footswitch jack on the back of the amp have somehow become loose and/or broken (remember these jacks are soldered directly to a circuit board, and the plastic outer nuts quite often become loose, fall off, and leave the jack basically subject to more movement than was planned)
and / or
B) The 'logic' in the controller within the circuit board has for some reason become disturbed...maybe a voltage spike (?) .....in any case this needs some research.
BTW, the Roland jack nuts have a unique thread pitch and diameter, and DO NOT interchange with 'normal' commercially available items.....
HTH
Peter _________________ If my wife is reading this, I don't have much stuff....really! |
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