Level Loss using the Click Stopper

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Dreamsy

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Hi !

I just finished (almost) wiring up my rig, and I had an issue using the click stopper. If I'm using it the level is going down to almost nothing and I have to set the level of each pedal all the way up, and the sound with effects on is still lower than effects off.
I tried bypassing the buffer, this didn't help, and when I tried bypassing the click stopper it works fine ! I can use it as it is now, I'm not sure of what I did wrong...

My guitar is a Parker Fly and is including a preamp (sort of), I noticed that I have to engaged the buffer switch on MXR my Classic 108 Fuzz in order to have it operate correctly, maybe this is related to this issue?

thanks !

Oh and yes as soon as I'm finished with my rack (just missing the power supply) I'll post some pictures
 
Because of its lower impedance, the click stopper may interact with certain pedals. If you see this only with certain pedals, you may need to insert a buffer between the pedal and click stopper.

If you see the problem consistently regardless of which pedals are currently on, that's typically caused by a bad cable. Please read my post on cable construction:

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=64
 
OK I performed some additionnals trials here are the results :

In order to eliminate the preamp issue from my parker I used a standard passive guitar.

when the click stopper is bypassed everything is working fine, I tried every combination of input to output (In Front input, buffer In, 1-4 In to Buffer Out, 1-4 out) before the 5-8 loops and everything worked fine.

So I then plugged into the 5-8 input and plugged to 5-8 output, it's working well, as soon as I'm plugging in the CS Out, the level is dropped down event when loops are inactive. I then plugged the guitar alone in the Click stopper In to Click stopper out and the level is dropped down as well.
I tried the solution with the buffer before the CS out and had the same results (guitar into buffer in - no loops - CS Out).

My guess is that something is going wrong between the CS In and CS out.

I tried as well with different jacks with the same results (all of them were made few weeks ago following the FAQ topic, but I tried as well with jack that were not made myself).
 
Very odd... Do you happen to have an ohmmeter? If so, it would be helpful to measure between the tip and ground of the CS out jack...
 
90 ohms??? That's definitely wrong and would definitely cause the problem you're seeing. Who did you buy the Effect Gizmo from?
 
If you can send it back to us, I'd be happy to fix it for you. (I'd really like to see what happened to it, as well).
 
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