I have tried several electric guitars, none of which make a sound on 9 – steel drums channel. Maybe it is like cable TV and you have to pay extra for channel 9 (just joking).

So, when all else fails, it’s the battery Dude. This pedal has a power supply, not a battery, so I put it on a digital multi-meter to see what it is putting out.

The power supply (PS) that came with the Key9 put out 9.82 V and 1.02 A.

At first, I thought it was reading 102 mA, but I had the meter on the wrong scale. Anyhow, so I looked around and I must have over a dozen EHX pedals and I gathered several that have the same or nearly the same power supply (see below), which seems to be fairly common with EHX pedals and I put them on the meter.

The PS that came with my Pog2 put out the most at 9.73 V and a whopping 1.49 A
The runner up was the PS from my Ravish Sitar which read 9.88 V and 1.39 A

Both the ravish Sitar and Pog2 PS’s have the same rating, 9.6 V 200 mA, but the labels are different. They are white, not black and say “Replacement for Boss and Ibanez”

All the rest of the power supplies rated at 9.6 V and 200 mA have a black label and say “Elecro-harmonix AC/DC adaptor.

The voltages on those 4 PS’s ranged from 9.81 to 9.84 V and amps from 1.02 to 1.06 A.

I took the Pog2 PS and plugged into the Key9 pedal, and like magic, channel 9 – steel drums comes alive.

I also noted that channel 4 – mallets did not have the latency it had with the PS that came with the Key9.

Steel drums and Mallets must have a significantly large current draw, more than the other channels.

So I have fixed my issue, at least I have got the thing to make steel drum sounds.

Perhaps one of the professional electronics technicians at EHX could take a look at this.

So, I will leave you with this “I would rather be riding my motorcycle on a bad day than sitting in front of a computer on a good day”.