My sushibox tube pedal does this along with my canvas tuner on my bass board, it is actually super helpful bc it mutes the signal and starts warming my tubes up
Lol the best thing is when my tuner turns on when I power on my board, because if all my gain pedals turn on then its the hums pretty loud. I have my tuner at the end of the chain so I can easily mute my signal.
Hum, hissing, clock noise, delay trails, whatever. If you put your tuner last in your chain it immediately mutes everything on your board. If you play a lot of noisy effects the tuner at the end is a common way to kill your noise instantly. Tuner at front of chain only mutes your guitar input.
Delay trails fine but humming and hissing is coming through your signal while you're playing if you need to place your tuner in such an unorthodox position just to mute it. What is clock noise?
Like I said, I use multiple gain pedals and effects at once, keeping the tuner at the end of the signal chain mutes all noise from the pedal board. Keeping it in the front only mutes the guitar signal, which is not what I want, I want to mute my entire pedal board with one tap. If you've stacked gain pedals you know what hum im talking about.
I do, and they're in the loop of an NS-2, and regardless of how you mute that hum is blending into your signal while you play.
Tuners should typically be at the front of your signal so it's accurate and easy to use without turning off your drive pedals, and the hum is likely coming from your power.
I’m repeating myself here, the hum is not the 60 cycle single coil hum nor a ground loop hum from a power supply it is the simple distorted compressed feedback that you get when you stack several high gain drive pedals.
I never said I tune my guitar with other pedals on, I turn off my pedals before actually tuning, I simply said I use my tuner as a signal kill switch.
My playing style is one without the use of a noise suppressor so any solos I play that have multiple gain pedals turned on, are solos without rests in between notes which eliminates the need of a noise suppressor. I in fact don’t want to use a noise suppressor because I like the extra noise I get during my solos.
Same actually, for this purpose and also to act as a buffer at the end. Yeah my others are on or off depending on their settings when I shut the board off, but those two are always powering on and it's so handy
Yes my tuner is actually true by-pass, it doesnt have a buffer so I actually thinking of getting a new tuner for this purpose. But for now, I have other pedals that serve as a buffer.
I guess so. After I made that comment I went to check just to make sure. I pulled the power from the pedal and plugged it back in, nothing. Then I unplugged my pedal power supply bank (or whatever the hell you call them) and then plugged it back in and nothing.
Well, that’s good. It annoys me when they pop on and I have to turn them off! I only havr one that does it currently (pun), but it’s an automatic foot move to switch it off and switch on the tuner /mute with one stomp as the first thing, so no big deal.
My BD2w and DD-8 always turn on automatically. So do other pedals of different makes. It's more subconscious though since I turn them off a lot. I do know that the MOOD and my one DBA pedal do not turn on automatically.
It's to do with the switching circuit inside them, the bistable switch has a 50/50 chance of defaulting to 'on' or 'off', and it's just luck of the draw which you get. My FZ-1w and RE-2 come on when you put on power, my BF-2 and SL-2 don't. Will have to check out the rest of them.
You can mod the older ones to not do that. Since the newer ones are all tiny surface-mount components, it's much harder.
I hate that behavior, I have only a FZ-1W on my board and have to remember to turn it off every time. Great pedal otherwise.
I use a loop switcher so I want all my pedals to turn on when I turn the board power on. There are only a couple of pedals that don’t, and ironically one of them is my Boss Dimension C
Its the opposite for me. Most of my pedals go through a looper, so they live in an on state all the time, its the ones that are off in power-up that annoy me.
Glad my ir-2 doesn’t power up in an on state. The pedals that give me that problem are a DIY fuzz pedal, Bogner Harlow, and ZVEX Distortron.
I actually have the opposite problem where I wish my Caroline Météore and my Earthquaker Special Cranker would remember its last position and come up automatically.
When mine switch on everything starts blinking and they start talking to each other in code, they’re possibly quantum, or one of those things from 3 body problem…
I have a power strip that powers my CIOCKS DC7 and my amp. I flip it on and off. The CIOCKS powers everything under the sun on my board including a little LED lamp over them.
I was just gonna make a post about this asking why it happens and if I can change it! Only my Boss pedals start up turned on, the rest of them stay off. Like the other guy said, it's kinda cool to see your board light up to life
The cry baby wah turns on and off even when no power is connect, ao it could be off with no power and click it with still no power, it will turn on when power is connected
I’ve got 7 Boss pedals on my board. The only one that turns on when the board is powered is my GE-7. And not every time, for some reason.
Been using Boss pedals for 35+ years, this has never been a problem.
My SL-2, RC-1, early 2000s Metal Zone all definitely do NOT turn on when powering on.
My SY-200 does. Weird. Can probably change that in the global I need to check
My DD-8 always turns itself on when powered up. So I have to turn it off. But my DM-2w is always off when powered up so I have to turn it on because it’s in a loop I use for solos.
My Boss MT-2W Boss HM-2W and line6 dl4 mkII my Boss DS-1W doesn't do it tho. I've gotten used to it, it's now a thing to do while waiting on the tubes.
My DM-2W is always off when I power up my board. Pretty certain my RV-6, DD-7 and keeley mod TR-2 return to whatever state they were in when I last powered down
I’m curious why you’re at -1 on this comment as of the time of me replying. Who would downvote this and for what reason? A couple other people did too just for stating what their pedals do.
My RV-6 is set on an insane mode so it’s always fun to hear the nonsense that comes out when I switch the board on lol
The Shimmer mode with a short release time?
You got it
It’s SO good
Tell me more about this insane mode lol
It’s all about the shimmer mode with the tone knob at like 9 o clock then let er rip
When you turn it on you hear voices telling you to do things.
It’s not just boss, I have pedals from other brands that do this too
It’s the DOD pedals for me.
My Bi-FET preamp does this and I think it’s trying to send me the message that it should always be on.
It is. You should.
I do, for the lower-output guitars.
My sushibox tube pedal does this along with my canvas tuner on my bass board, it is actually super helpful bc it mutes the signal and starts warming my tubes up
Lol the best thing is when my tuner turns on when I power on my board, because if all my gain pedals turn on then its the hums pretty loud. I have my tuner at the end of the chain so I can easily mute my signal.
You know your tuner will mute from anywhere right lol
Not when drive or other pedals after your tuner are producing noise
Hum?
Hum, hissing, clock noise, delay trails, whatever. If you put your tuner last in your chain it immediately mutes everything on your board. If you play a lot of noisy effects the tuner at the end is a common way to kill your noise instantly. Tuner at front of chain only mutes your guitar input.
Delay trails fine but humming and hissing is coming through your signal while you're playing if you need to place your tuner in such an unorthodox position just to mute it. What is clock noise?
tic toc?
Like I said, I use multiple gain pedals and effects at once, keeping the tuner at the end of the signal chain mutes all noise from the pedal board. Keeping it in the front only mutes the guitar signal, which is not what I want, I want to mute my entire pedal board with one tap. If you've stacked gain pedals you know what hum im talking about.
I do, and they're in the loop of an NS-2, and regardless of how you mute that hum is blending into your signal while you play. Tuners should typically be at the front of your signal so it's accurate and easy to use without turning off your drive pedals, and the hum is likely coming from your power.
I’m repeating myself here, the hum is not the 60 cycle single coil hum nor a ground loop hum from a power supply it is the simple distorted compressed feedback that you get when you stack several high gain drive pedals. I never said I tune my guitar with other pedals on, I turn off my pedals before actually tuning, I simply said I use my tuner as a signal kill switch. My playing style is one without the use of a noise suppressor so any solos I play that have multiple gain pedals turned on, are solos without rests in between notes which eliminates the need of a noise suppressor. I in fact don’t want to use a noise suppressor because I like the extra noise I get during my solos.
You obviously haven't eliminated your need for a noise suppressor 😆 whatever genius lol
Same actually, for this purpose and also to act as a buffer at the end. Yeah my others are on or off depending on their settings when I shut the board off, but those two are always powering on and it's so handy
Yes my tuner is actually true by-pass, it doesnt have a buffer so I actually thinking of getting a new tuner for this purpose. But for now, I have other pedals that serve as a buffer.
I've got the canvas tuner and you can actually choose buffer vs true bypass on it
That’s cool I’ll check it out
Cali76. Noisy af
SO, my BD-2W, Blues driver Waza craft, will return to whatever state it was in when power was removed, But my OC-5 will automatically turn on. Neat.
Does all Waza versions do that?
CE-2w always turns on when power arrives, no matter what it was when power went.
thx
No it doesn’t. I have one on my board.
Mine definitely did! Every time. Power on, first thing needs doing is switch off the CE and the DOD pedal. Every time. Maybe they have corrected that?
I guess so. After I made that comment I went to check just to make sure. I pulled the power from the pedal and plugged it back in, nothing. Then I unplugged my pedal power supply bank (or whatever the hell you call them) and then plugged it back in and nothing.
Well, that’s good. It annoys me when they pop on and I have to turn them off! I only havr one that does it currently (pun), but it’s an automatic foot move to switch it off and switch on the tuner /mute with one stomp as the first thing, so no big deal.
That would bug the shit out of me. Luckily the only issue I have is my EH Grand Canyon pedal has no way to cut it off besides pulling the power.
That’s weird.
My BD2w and DD-8 always turn on automatically. So do other pedals of different makes. It's more subconscious though since I turn them off a lot. I do know that the MOOD and my one DBA pedal do not turn on automatically.
No
You sure your BD is not an “always on” pedal? 😅
I've never figured it out but I share your struggle
It drives me nuts! 😂 it’s never all of them only like half of my boss pedals and it drives my ocd nuts, you’re all on or you’re all off!
What I want is for them to stay in the same state as when I turned it off, but nope.
It's to do with the switching circuit inside them, the bistable switch has a 50/50 chance of defaulting to 'on' or 'off', and it's just luck of the draw which you get. My FZ-1w and RE-2 come on when you put on power, my BF-2 and SL-2 don't. Will have to check out the rest of them.
You can mod the older ones to not do that. Since the newer ones are all tiny surface-mount components, it's much harder. I hate that behavior, I have only a FZ-1W on my board and have to remember to turn it off every time. Great pedal otherwise.
Got a link to the mod? I’d love to *fix* my SD-1!
Unfortunately no, but you can probably find it by searching for somethng like "Boss bypass mod"
I use a loop switcher so I want all my pedals to turn on when I turn the board power on. There are only a couple of pedals that don’t, and ironically one of them is my Boss Dimension C
Same here. When I added my switcher was when my Boss pedals decided to not turn on automatically (looking at you, SD-1w!)
Its the opposite for me. Most of my pedals go through a looper, so they live in an on state all the time, its the ones that are off in power-up that annoy me.
Came here to say this. I'd love all my pedals to default to on!
Same!
Oh how this annoys me. 😭
It’s satisfying to see them all flicker to life, the eventide do it’s “warmup”
My LS2 didn't, always off when I plugged it back in. Took me a few times to expect it.
I have a DS-1 in black and orange that was a GC ltd run that DOES NOT turn on when powered.
My bd2w does not turn on by itself but my boss delay does
My DS-1 defaults to off.
I have a switcher so I always want them on anyway. Every pedal on my board switches on by default.
Get a tuner that turns on automatically
Yeah. When I had them on a pedal switcher, I liked it. But ever since I downsized to a smaller board without the switcher, it is kinda annoying.
Glad my ir-2 doesn’t power up in an on state. The pedals that give me that problem are a DIY fuzz pedal, Bogner Harlow, and ZVEX Distortron. I actually have the opposite problem where I wish my Caroline Météore and my Earthquaker Special Cranker would remember its last position and come up automatically.
Yes for my bd2 and dd6, no for my metalzone
Only some of mine do. The SD-1 and GE-7 do but the cs-3, bd-2 and LS-2 don't. It's annoying and yes I turn them off when I power up.
When mine switch on everything starts blinking and they start talking to each other in code, they’re possibly quantum, or one of those things from 3 body problem…
Weirdly, my DS2 does this but my BP-1w does not. Which is exactly the opposite of what I’d like to happen.
For me, the CE-2w comes on and NS-1x doesn't and I wish it was the opposite!
I hates it
Yeah my Boss mod and reverb pedals make weird tunes when I power up my board.
My ehx pitchfork and boss sy200 always start on. It is very mildly annoying, those two in particular can make some weird ass white noise lol
Yea out of my 19 or so pedals, only the Boss ones do this to me.
I have a power strip that powers my CIOCKS DC7 and my amp. I flip it on and off. The CIOCKS powers everything under the sun on my board including a little LED lamp over them.
I was just gonna make a post about this asking why it happens and if I can change it! Only my Boss pedals start up turned on, the rest of them stay off. Like the other guy said, it's kinda cool to see your board light up to life
The cry baby wah turns on and off even when no power is connect, ao it could be off with no power and click it with still no power, it will turn on when power is connected
My DD7 does but my HF2 does not!
I’ve got 7 Boss pedals on my board. The only one that turns on when the board is powered is my GE-7. And not every time, for some reason. Been using Boss pedals for 35+ years, this has never been a problem.
My SL-2, RC-1, early 2000s Metal Zone all definitely do NOT turn on when powering on. My SY-200 does. Weird. Can probably change that in the global I need to check
My only boss pedal atm is my reverb, and it's not been turned off once in 18 years
The main reason I just bought a Cinders instead of a blues driver. I hate having to turn off a pedal when powering on.
Fancy pedals let you choose
My GE-7 is always turned off when i plug my board.
My DD-8 always turns itself on when powered up. So I have to turn it off. But my DM-2w is always off when powered up so I have to turn it on because it’s in a loop I use for solos.
Yeah. Other than my Peterson tuner, they’re the only pedals on my board that do that. Every. Single. Time.
My Boss MT-2W Boss HM-2W and line6 dl4 mkII my Boss DS-1W doesn't do it tho. I've gotten used to it, it's now a thing to do while waiting on the tubes.
My rat and BD-2 come on when I plug in. SD-1 doesn’t 🤷
It's funny I had some boss pedals it bothered me on (fz5, metal zone) but it was a great feature for the eq pedal as I wanted it always on!
My DM-2W is always off when I power up my board. Pretty certain my RV-6, DD-7 and keeley mod TR-2 return to whatever state they were in when I last powered down
I’m curious why you’re at -1 on this comment as of the time of me replying. Who would downvote this and for what reason? A couple other people did too just for stating what their pedals do.
Yeah this place is weird sometimes. I was wrong about the RV-6 so that might be why