New Ep-3 grainy sounding. Any luck cleaning it?
Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 1:55 pm
Hey there,
I bought an EP-3 to replace my EP-2 because the EP-2 was chunky and steppy/grainy sounding. After only a few weeks the EP3 is giving me the same results, especially as the pot nears the 'toe down' region. It's pretty bad to the point of being unusable. I can get cleanish sweeps in the first, maybe, third of the pedal's throw, but past that it really starts to introduce distortion/graininess. I'm using it to modulate cutoff on sub 37, but the graininess is audible when using it with other stuff as well (and using the trim pot on the ep-3 doesn't give the same crackliness, so I know it's the main pot on the ep-3).
Does anyone have any experience using contact cleaner or something like that to get those smooooth sweeps back?
I bought an EP-3 to replace my EP-2 because the EP-2 was chunky and steppy/grainy sounding. After only a few weeks the EP3 is giving me the same results, especially as the pot nears the 'toe down' region. It's pretty bad to the point of being unusable. I can get cleanish sweeps in the first, maybe, third of the pedal's throw, but past that it really starts to introduce distortion/graininess. I'm using it to modulate cutoff on sub 37, but the graininess is audible when using it with other stuff as well (and using the trim pot on the ep-3 doesn't give the same crackliness, so I know it's the main pot on the ep-3).
Does anyone have any experience using contact cleaner or something like that to get those smooooth sweeps back?