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chrisrnps wrote:Meow?

It arrived! Totally worth the wait as expected. Thanks guys!

Meow?

I've now passed the six months of waiting mark.

Any idea if a shipment of Sparkle Drive Mod will eventually make it to your dealer "The Mad Ape" in Washington state?

Currenty powering from any of the Pedal Power 2+ outputs 1-8, all set to Normal:

TC Electronic Polytune

Fender - Fender Blender Custom reissue fuzz

Homebrew Electronics Germania (Germanium Treble Booster - powered with PPREV R reverse polarity cable for center-positive power required by many germanium based boosters and fuzzes)

Red Witch Fuzz God II

Red Witch Deluxe Moon Phaser

(this space reserved for Sparkle Drive Mod)

Lumpy's Tone Shop Liquid Lead (works in 9v DC or 18v DC with PPY voltage doubler cable)

Catalinbread CB30 (works in 9v DC or 18v DC with PPY voltage doubler cable)

Not on the PP2+:

Line 6 m13 (obviously)

TC Electronic Nova Dynamics (this one probably could be, but it came with its own adaptor, it works, and I'm lazy.)

It seems like Guitar Center / Musician's Friend got the first shipment of Giggity and Sparkle Drive Mod in late December, which quickly sold out, and currently no dealer, including GC/MF, has them in stock right now - is that correct?

I've had a Sparkle Drive Mod on backorder from a smaller, non-chain dealer since December 29th, 2011.

The couple online retailer sites that have any "expected to arrive by" info list various dates in April, so should I get my hopes up for "sometime in April", or is that batch going to go to "big box" dealers again? Will supply eventually catch up with demand?

Still have the last vacancy on my Pedaltrain Pro reserved in anticipation, complete with Pedal Power 2+ cable leading to the open parking spot...but I'm getting antsy.

All you should need to do is set the dip switch(es) for outputs 5 & 6 to 'normal', so they're set to act as regular 9v outlets, and not the "Line 6 / ACA" higher-voltage option.

You can ignore the "250mA" part for outputs 5 & 6. The pedals consume whatever milliamps they're hungry for, so you just need to make sure the mA/Amps available are at least as much as what they pedal needs. As long as the available mA isn't less than what the pedal consumes, you're good. Most, if not all, of your pedals are only using a fraction of the available 100mA per output already.

One thing that you should double-check first is to verify whether or not you have any fuzz or boost pedals (such as many "new old stock germanium transistor based" treble booster or tonebender clones) that require a "center positive" DC power, rather than the more common "center negative" type. If so (and ONLY if so) make sure to use the correct adaptor cable from Voodoo Lab to feed "center positive" to just that pedal.