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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | Can you leave the dummy plug in your guitar (so you can tune it quickly) or will it cause your battery to drain?
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| Drain - pretty quickly, too. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Yep. Did it. Drained it. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I believe that it will make your preamp battery drain.
How long were you planning on leaving it in there. |
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Location: Tennessee | That's why they call it a dummy plug. |
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Location: Corvallis, OR | Apparently, there is a penalty for late withdrawal. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Isn't this just the stupidest design in the world? For christ sake all you need is a simple on/off switch on the pre-amp.
But alas, I have a solution. I was playing a guitar last night which has the nice little Alpep dB boost button (gee, what guitar could that be), anyway I'm looking at the stealth little black button and thinking "shit, if only that was an on/off switch". Bingo. Trip to Fry's for the hardware and wire the switch right into the batter clip so at a press of the button you cut the power completely. Small modification to the 1/4 jack to shut the loop that normally triggers power and viola, it's done. Might even look into a lighted switch or a little LED indicator to prevent leaving the thing powered on. |
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Location: Michigan | At the risk of sounding...ignorant, what preamp requires you to plug it in to tune? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | "At the risk of sounding...ignorant, what preamp requires you to plug it in to tune?"
VIP and iDea... I believe that there are others. |
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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | I have both the VIP and the Idea preamps. It's a real pain in my arss to go get the plug out of the case to tune my guitar. I always feel like I might as well go get my tuner. So I was considering making a special plug that I could keep plugged in. It would have a low profile head so that it would still fit into my case. But it doesn't sound like that will work for me.
Sounds like "Dummy Plug" was appropriately named by a seasoned marketing person. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I just grab a standard 1'4" cable from my gig bag or the wall and plug it in ... works fine. It IS an inconvenience though. It definitely could have been corrected in the design phase. I don't know why someone didn't correct it before, unless they were in a hurry to get to production. ... or maybe someone has stock in the battery industry. |
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Dummy Plug for Guitar Tuner
