At FEA Labs, we take great pride in our work and are always looking for ways to keep our products among the best the market has to offer. We feel it's important that you know that you're getting the best product available from us, so we've established an upgrade policy. With this new policy, we offer upgrades to specific product models at little or no cost to you with the exception of shipping and possibly parts (depending on the upgrade).
This plan is our way of letting our customers know that we really care about your experience with our products and we stand behind all of our products 100%.
The new audio path has been redesigned with the FEA 3S output amplifier circuit for warm tone and excellent noise rejection that features a “class A” FET output driver and a passive optical gain reduction element. The 3S amplifier utilizes an audiophile grade Burr-Brown™ operational amplifier and Toshiba™ field effect transistors for outstanding performance. The operational and FET driver amplifiers are integrated in a unique way to take advantage of the favorable qualities of both types of amplification. This 3S amplifier has selectable modes of operation for a clean or warm tone using the new internal DIP switches.
In addition to the new amplifier design, a selectable low-pass filter has been added to the feature set. When engaged using the internal DIP switch, the filter rolls off frequencies above 12KHz for a more classic tone, or to reduce the amount of white noise (hiss) from other pedals preceding the compressor in the audio path.
Cost: These updates are free to all FEA Labs direct customers, whether you have purchased the Opti-FET or any other FEA Labs product from the web site. For those that have not purchased anything directly from FEA Labs, we only ask that you pay return shipping costs. Warranty repair upgrades do not require the payment of return shipping costs and are covered under the warranty conditions. All upgrade customers will be responsible for the cost of shipping the pedal back to FEA Labs to install the upgrades.
Upgrade Requests: Please use the Contact page and select the subject "Upgrade Request" to schedule the upgrade. We will then contact you with shipping instructions and payment information (when applicable).
A few Dual-Band Distortion customers have expressed a desire for more edgy, open tone from the pedal. We took their suggestions and made a few other circuit changes that expand the DBD capabilities. These changes will be the new standard for all DBD pedals going forward and we thank everyone who has made suggestions.
The changes are as follows:
Cost: These updates are free to all FEA Labs direct customers, whether you have purchased the Dual Band Distortion or any other FEA Labs product from the web site. For those that have not purchased anything directly from FEA Labs, we only ask that you pay return shipping costs. All upgrade customers will be responsible for the cost of shipping the pedal back to FEA Labs to install the upgrades.
Upgrade Requests: Please use the Contact page and select the subject "Upgrade Request" to schedule the upgrade. We will then contact you with shipping instructions and payment information (when applicable).
There have been a few reports of the Dual-Band compressors behaving strangely when they share a common power supply with some other pedals. The problem has been identified and there is a simple modification for the compressor to remedy this issue.
The symptom of this problem is that the compressor’s LED’s will indicate compression with no signal present. The units that may be affected would have been purchased between August 1, 2009 and February 1, 2010. There are two ways to correct for this issue:
Please contact me at info@fealabs.com before sending your unit.
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