Impedance Matching Pedal Prob

[Strānj]

Hi there, I'd like to first introduce myself.

Alex Level from Santiago de los Caballeros de Mérida (The Andes Mountains), Venezuela. I have a male vocal band and I love to use pedals and such with my vocals.

Among the stuff I have is a Boss RC-2 Loop Pedal. As you know, it's input is a 1/4" Mono (intended for instruments). So I bought one of these neat little adaptors that turn 1/4" mono to XLR (the ones that have the little tiny impedance matching transformer inside the long cilinder separating the mono plug and the XLR connector).

So, I'm presently doing this mod to my RC-2, where I'm putting the IMT directly in the pedal itself along with an Neutrik XLR instead of the original 1/4" mono input.

The problem is that while taking the IMT ou, one of it's 5 little wires got unsoldered and I don't know where it should go! HELP!

Here I have some pictures to see if any of you can tell me where it should go soldered again.

Thanks so much for your time...

Alex

 

[mshilarious]

Well, it's likely that wire was attached one side of the transformer secondary, which is probably something like 42 ga. wire (really really really tiny). You need to solder it back to that wire (if you can find it) without melting the wires in the coil together. That's not going to be easy.

 

[Strānj]

Thanks Bro!

Well, it's likely that wire was attached one side of the transformer secondary, which is probably something like 42 ga. wire (really really really tiny). You need to solder it back to that wire (if you can find it) without melting the wires in the coil together. That's not going to be easy.

Hi there mshilarious, thanks so much for being the first to answer!

Man I've been waiting all these days for someone to post something, thanks!

Now, I don't know anything about transformers (or pretty much any electronics) can you point me in the direction of the "secondary" ? I don't know even where to look! Seems almost imposible...

 

[moresound]

Hey Stranj ....welcome to the board!
Just hang in there MSH will be back soon he can't go to far because he is a moderator here at HR.com
He will get you fixed right up for he is very knowledgeable.

 

[Strānj]

Hey Stranj ....welcome to the board!
Just hang in there MSH will be back soon he can't go to far because he is a moderator here at HR.com
He will get you fixed right up for he is very knowledgeable.

Thanks so much moresound, I'm stuck with this and I have a big concert coming up on the 29th too! Darnit!!! I should've waited after the concert to do this, but I wanted to try it...

I'll hang in there, thanx a lot bro!

 

[moresound]

No problem ~ don't worry everything will be cool.

 

[moresound]

Do you know how to use the personal message?

 

[Strānj]

Do you know how to use the personal message?

Yes, I guess, do you think I should PM him?

 

[moresound]

Sure that is what it is there for ...and it will be brought right to his attention once he logs back on.

 

[Strānj]

Sure that is what it is there for ...and it will be brought right to his attention once he logs back on.

I'll do that bro, thanks for the idea!!! You're right, it's much much quicker that way.

 

[moresound]

Coolieo ...talk to you soon man.

 

[Strānj]

Hey Stranj ....welcome to the board!
Just hang in there MSH will be back soon he can't go to far because he is a moderator here at HR.com
He will get you fixed right up for he is very knowledgeable.

Hey moresound, do you mean mshilarious by MSH 'cause I don't seem to find MSH as a member... mshilarious already wrote in this thread.

 

[moresound]

Hey moresound, do you mean mshilarious by MSH 'cause I don't seem to find MSH as a member... mshilarious already wrote in this thread.

Yes that is what I meant I just shortened his user name, that happens a lot here.
Your looking for mshilarious.

 

[Strānj]

Yes that is what I meant I just shortened his user name, that happens a lot here.
Your looking for mshilarious.

Oh, then he was the very first one to post! And I already asked him where I should be looking at, I'm really lost trying to find that little tiny wire he mentioned bro...

 

[mshilarious]

It will be a tiny little wire coming out of the transformer. Carefully peel back the tape around the coils until you find it. If you can't find it, you need to buy a new transformer and be more careful.