Trying to ressurect Zoom 9030... fault

[pasha811]

I tried to resurrect my Zoom 9030 yesterday but I have found a very strange behavior:
The compession and distortion effects seem to do nothing except zero the signal...
Time to say goodbye?

Best
Pasha

[gumtown]

My first thought is Why?

but if it has an internal lithium memory battery, replace that.
Then try a factory reset

[pasha811]

My first thought is Why?

but if it has an internal lithium memory battery, replace that.
Then try a factory reset

Thanks for the answer.

Why? It's just a matter of curiosity (can it still be used for some projects today and spare some bucks?**) and affection...(it stayed with me until VG99 in 2011..) I replaced the lithium battery just yesterday and did a factory reset. At a closer look, The Zoom 9030 has a main-board and a daughter-board connected by wires. One of those wires my be damaged..I'm not too much into electronics but I was puzzled by the fact that all works fine except when I put Distortion on .. and the signal goes away. Intriguing isn't it?

** I might have a venue in the future and I was trying to avoid bringing the VG99 with me as I won't need very much beside clean chorus, lead guitar, clean delay guitar..

[squatch]

The only normal reason for the distortion to zero the signal is because the effects loop is activated (if the unit isn't faulty)
(I have a 9050 and I'm assuming the 9030 also has the effects loop for dirt)
Maybe it's setting itself for external on the distortion patches, although you'd expect a reset to fix that
Also, the distortions in those are analog, so maybe there's a fault but only in the analog section
Could explain why it's only patches with distortion settings that fail while other patches are OK

[pasha811]

The only normal reason for the distortion to zero the signal is because the effects loop is activated (if the unit isn't faulty)
(I have a 9050 and I'm assuming the 9030 also has the effects loop for dirt)
Maybe it's setting itself for external on the distortion patches, although you'd expect a reset to fix that
Also, the distortions in those are analog, so maybe there's a fault but only in the analog section
Could explain why it's only patches with distortion settings that fail while other patches are OK

Great insight thank you !!. Can I assume the second board is the analog section or the loop is short circuited in a way?

[squatch]

Great insight thank you !!. Can I assume the second board is the analog section or the loop is short circuited in a way?

Not sure about a short circuit, I'm not really a tech but it might be a failed component on the analog board
I know the Zoom 9002 has a common failure because some cap eventually fails from age...there's a fix for that (I have a dead one here)
Maybe the 9030's have a similar problem with aged caps but I've only heard about LCD display failures which is fairly common

[pasha811]

Solved. I bought a GT-1 early late November - Early December!