From jukefox@jukejoynt.com Tue Sep 24 15:25:55 2013
Subject:Re: Burnin' B! (slightly off-topic cross-post from MojoMusicians)

Thanks for the explanation, Guido ... although the pedal thing still doesn't make sense ... some devices actually "sense ground" when plugged in and adjust accordingly to whatever pedal is connected.  Implementation of two separate standards for speed-control switching across the product line is nothing short of goofy.

Would it have been possible to avoid the dreaded "bump" by cross-ramping the signal when switching into tube overdrive mode and back?

Don't get me wrong ... much about this pedal is very good, and it will be a good replacement for a pair of 122s on a low-noise stage ... but no matter how easy a "fix" the switching anomaly may be, it is irksome at best, and the gap upon entering tube mode will be troublesome from time-to-time, especially right in the middle of solos when wanting to go from cleanly aggressive to "balls-to-the-wall!"

I've taken chances with you guys on both Mojo and Burn.  I will probably take chances on your products in the future.  Thanks for incorporating the Memphis sound and 180 mic placement ... two huge features I lobbied for in Mojo updates.  But, I'm not using this with Mojo.  No matter how good MIDI implementation is on Burn, it doesn't help with a Hammond. 

Perhaps a line of 5-pin/6-pin and 9 or 11-pin amphonol connectors with built-in audio extraction/Leslie switching could be a cool accessory line ... but it would be a really niche product for old Hammond-heads like me who appreciate its "plug-and-play" convenience.

Peace,
Fox. 

 



---In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, <clonewheel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Hello everybody,

Guido (GSi) here. It's been a long time since my last post on this list, and I jump in from time to time to see if there's something new but apparently this list runs faster than me, so I only happen to read the latest messages :)

 

And this time the latest message caught my attention. I hope my replies will be useful to other people also interested to know why we made such choices while designing the Burn.


---In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, <clonewheel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> The other
thing, however, is REALLY annoying. 
> I'm using Burn in the mode
that allows the "stop" switch to be used to kick tube distortion in and
out. 
> Unfortunately, when you do this, the sound cuts out for half a
second or so while the tube distortion kicks in!  Why???? 
 
 
The muting when you turn the overdrive on and off is there in order to avoid a possible "bump" that you would hear, and believe me, that would have been way more annoying than a 200 mS muting. Unfortunately there was no way to avoid that bump, it's the price to pay for having a real tube distortion inside a digital circuit. When the DSP is suddenly coupled with the hot signal coming from the tube, that bump occours despite the filterings we have put into the circuit.
 
> And,
again, WHY on earth did they decide to make this unit incompatible with
the half-moon and foot switches they already manufacture for Mojo? 
Makes absolutely zero sense to me.
 
It makes absolutely sense, instead, and I remember I already explained this to you before. The "Remote" jack behind the BURN is made to accomodate a variety of accessories, i.e. switches, pushbuttons and expression pedals. For this reason it has the same connection as an expression pedal input rather than a footswitch input. The MOJO half-moon is not compatible for this reason.
 
However, rewiring an existing switch is very easy, and in some cases it is possible to build an external adapter that reverses two wires instead of rewiring the accessory internally. For example, the Hammond CU-1 and the Nord H/M Switch can be made compatible by simply swapping the sleeve with the ring of the TRS jack. The manual explains all this in detail.
 
Hope this helps.
Guido.