Seen this one over and over! The battery will leak acid underneath the nearby 1 meg resistor. That causes a path of lower impedance than should be there and results in a very slow turn on period. I take these units and remove the circuit board completely, replace the 10K and the 1 meg resistors, as they both get a good acid bath! Then I get rid of the battery forever with the NVSRAM chip I sell (battery-less memory).
You also need to replace the battery in the Transtubefex ASAP. All I have seen lately are leaking!!!
A simple procedure for setting up the TTFEX in the loop would be:
-play the steel through the amp and note the volume level
-insert the TTFEX into the effects loop
-keep in mind the effect loop will drive the input harder than your steel would. I would use the volume pedal loop instead, if you are not already using it for a three wire volume pedal hook-up.
-Go to the global menu for settings volume and tone levels
-Set the output level of the TTFEX temporarily at "0"
-while playing the steel, turn up the input level on the TTFEX until the green input light is blinking
-turn the output up to get a similar volume level as you had with nothing in the effects loop
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