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Post subject: EXP 1 Pedal.
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2018 8:01 am
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I am on my 2 pedal. Mabey my GT100 is the problem.
I can not get the pedal to work as advertised. By one else have a problem with it. I can get the volume part to work but not the effects part.


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Post subject: Re: EXP 1 Pedal.
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2018 9:00 am
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I have had the GT100 1.5 years and had the EXP the whole time. It;s never worked properly. Fender even sent me a new one when the amp was newer thinking it might be the pedal even tho i told them it works fine as proven by the fact it still worked in my old Mustang MIII. So i have tried 2 of them and even with this latest update it's buggy. However, in your case it may be pilot error because while mine is buggy in certain ways, i CAN get it to work with amp features other then volume. But i haven't tried that since i'v had V2 but i assume it still works. You need to explain what u were trying to do with it and exactly how you did it in the menus and then maybe I or someone else will be able to help u.


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Post subject: Re: EXP 1 Pedal.
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2018 9:26 am
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Trying to use it as a wah. In preset 74 per instructions I can get a faint wah sound but not like a wah pedal.
In other presets I add a wah fx and can not get any effect from it. Like you said I am sure it's pilot error. I spend more time trying to get it to work than practicing.
Strange thing on preset 3 it works gain and I never set it for that.


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Post subject: Re: EXP 1 Pedal.
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2018 12:07 pm
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I'm not in front of the amp right now, but from memory, when u are in the EXP preset settings make sure to press the middle layer button till that box in the middle shows the wah. Of course u have to have already added the wah in the preset. Then again in the exp preset settings set the second setting from the left to wah. Then make sure the toe and heel are heel all the way down and toe all the way up. If it still doesn't work go to the page 2 of the settings and mess with those and see if any help and also look at the settings of the wah in the effects layer of the preset.


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Post subject: Re: EXP 1 Pedal.
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2018 4:30 am
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oczad wrote:
I have had the GT100 1.5 years and had the EXP the whole time. It;s never worked properly.
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So i have tried 2 of them and even with this latest update it's buggy. However, in your case it may be pilot error because while mine is buggy in certain ways, i CAN get it to work with amp features other then volume. But i haven't tried that since i'v had V2 but i assume it still works.


Oczad, what is at today the entity of the bug? i mean, what is not possible to do in stable way?
i have the Exp1( for which some years ago i did even a fine calibration) for the M3 v2 , and i used it as wah, or to change the rate or the pitch of modulations effects , to change the level of a fuzz, probably also to change the amp gain in a preset, i don't remember.

Sorry if I ask details (and i will do the same in others post) but it is just to let know better to Fender what should be fixed as soon as possible, in a next update.


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Post subject: Re: EXP 1 Pedal.
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2018 7:18 am
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The LEDs don't light sometimes, or they both light at the same time. And functionally its just wacky and doesn't always work right. Worked perfect with my old MIII but not the GT.


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Post subject: Re: EXP 1 Pedal.
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2018 8:00 am
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Mine also has the 2 light problem. For some reason I can't give up on it. I tried fender support a while back ,but I do not think they know what is wrong. Took my GT 100 and pedal to GC and same thing. On my second pedal.
It seems like everyone who had an older Mustang it worked ok, I do t think it's made to work with other GT amps. I should just try to return it.


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Post subject: Re: EXP 1 Pedal.
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2018 8:34 am
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Carhop wrote:
Mine also has the 2 light problem. For some reason I can't give up on it. I tried fender support a while back ,but I do not think they know what is wrong. Took my GT 100 and pedal to GC and same thing. On my second pedal.
It seems like everyone who had an older Mustang it worked ok, I do t think it's made to work with other GT amps. I should just try to return it.


I talked to fender about it long ago and like i said they even sent me a new one but it didn't work right either. Tho both worked fine on my MIII. So i can only assume at this point that fender wasn't able to make it work correctly with the GT. If thats the case they should remove the GT from the list of amps it works with but i see it still shows the GT as being one of the supported amp on fender's site. I checked 5 sites selling the pedal tho and none list the GT as supported, only the old mustangs. So i think fender just hasn't thought to remove it from their list. Either that or they are trying to get it to work still and maybe it'll be fixed in another update.


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Post subject: Re: EXP 1 Pedal.
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2018 7:17 am
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In addition to the problem with the wrong LEDs, I also get a problem with audio muting when the pedal is plugged in. (I am using the cable that came with the pedal.)

After powering on the amp, the first time I use the toe switch to switch from exp to vol mode the master volume switches to zero, with the pedal still in the toe position. If I move the pedal slightly, the volume jumps back up to what it should be.

It only does it the once, each time after I switch the amp on, so I've got into the habit of toggling the pedal mode and wiggling the pedal each time I start the amp (along with switching the multi-footswitch from presets mode to effects).

The annoying thing is that even if I don't use the exp pedal at all, the bug can still trigger when I change to certain presets (probably those presets I've told to use vol mode for the pedal, but I'm not sure of this). Although the above fix also stops it happening in this case as well.

I'm pretty sure this is a software bug and should be easy to fix. I let Fender know about it, but didn't get a response from them. Not sure if it existed prior to the v2 release, as I didn't get the exp pedal until after I had upgraded.

Does anyone else get this problem?

Other than that its been pretty reliable, but very occasionally using the exp pedal will cause phantom footswitch presses on the multi footswitch, which toggle a switch or switch mode (to looper) when I move the exp pedal. It is very rare though, and most likely caused by interference in the cable (I use the ones that came with them, as I had bad results with another shorter cable I tried).

I only use the amp (gt40) for practice, though, so this doesn't annoy me enough to unplug the pedal.


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