#181

@alanza I really laughed loud in the office. :smiley:

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#182

My limited experience of dealing with WR support is that they have folks in the office on Wednesdays to handle business dealings and support requests. So, yeah.

I also think the volume of interest in Mannequins is much greater than it might have been when they made that decision, though that’s just conjecture. Business scaling is challenging.

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#183

Hi all!

We finally received the transformers today and our amazing team got them all built & tested & shipped! Sincere apologies for over-promising in our recent communication - it was not our intention to disappoint! Demand for this batch was massively higher than previously (50 in 2 days, vs 25 in 2 months), and we unfortunately sold units we didn’t have all the parts for. I apologize for that.

But yes, Wednesday! It is Wednesday! We ship the whole week’s orders every Wednesday! Cheat the system & order by noonish EST on a Wednesday for same day shipping!

This batch of overdue RIPs were different, and we shipped them as soon as we were able, it just happens to be Wednesday today.

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#184

The Wednesday mystery is solved! I feel like @alanza should get a trophy or something :slight_smile:

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#185

@alanza deserves //////// MVP, tbh.

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#186

How does RIP handle mono? Just patch into A and go out of A? I’m still waiting on mine, but thinking about purchasing a SSL Alpha Channel so would like to know if it works as straightforward as I think it does.

#187

If things are plugged into the 1/4" jacks it passes the mono signal to both in equal volume. If things are not, it passes the signal through both transformers and out the second 3.5mm jack (I think)

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#188

The switch of the B 1/8” jack is normalled to the tip of the A 1/8” jack.

So with nothing patched into B, a signal patched into A is routed to both A+B 1/4” outs. With nothing patched into A, a signal patched into B is only routed to B. When both A and B are patched, they pass their signals independently to their corresponding outputs.

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#189

Thanks! That’s just what I needed to know

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#190

Anyone have any news on when the next batch may be available for pre-order?

#191

RIP as a pedal interface: yea or nay?

I couldn’t get it to work today. Only thing I can think of is maybe I’m shorting the tip and ring of my 1/4" TRS at the pedal… Do TS jacks usually do that?

#192

I was poking around on the Mannequins site and noticed that there’s now a Support FAQ with this on it https://www.whimsicalraps.com/pages/support-faq#rip-availability

Will you be making RIP again?
Unfortunately, no!

That makes me sad – I’m not sure when this page was put up, but it seems pretty new. Lots of handy info there.

#193

20 characters of sad.

#194

Their was one on sale for £250 here in London two days ago on modular grid

#195

Sure, some might turn up used — the original question was if they’ll be making more.

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#196

Yeah no worries I get that dude I saw they weren’t on the feed, so assumed you might appreciate one avail.

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#197

If you’re running on battery power, often pedals use the ring-shorted-to-ground behaviour of a TS cable to turn on the power. If you use a TRS cable on a module with batteries, it likely just isn’t turning on.

#198

Is it normal that my RIP is constantly outputting a high pitched tone? It’s only noticeable when the input is quiet but it’s always there.

#199

I don’t think that’s normal - perhaps it’s a ground issue? Have you tried the lift switch? Does it happen when nothing is plugged into the input?

#200

Yeah I’ve tried both of those ideas and neither seemed to fix it. I’ve tried using different inputs on my interface and it’s happening on all of them. The only thing I haven’t tested is different TRS cables but these are basically brand new (I bought them when I got RIP) and it’s happening with both so it doesn’t seem like that’s the cause. I’m able to EQ it out pretty easily but that’s definitely not something I want to have to keep doing if there’s a fix for it.