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Topic: distortion problem |
Chris Tarrow
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Maplewood, NJ
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Posted 18 Jun 2014 9:47 am |
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I'm getting distortion when I play anything with a super fast attack. Steel sounds clean acoustically. Happens even with the volume pedal back, so it's not that I'm overdriving the amp input. Same problem if I listen to the DI, so I know it's not the amp anyway. All cables test fine and work fine with other guitars. Here is my setup:
Emmons SD10
TrueTone pickup
Hilton volume pedal
Anyone experienced this and/or can anyone advise?
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 18 Jun 2014 3:26 pm
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Just because you have the pedal pulled back doesn't mean transients aren't hitting the bejeebers out of the input. And is your DI before the amp?
It'd be nice to know your amp settings (including whether you use input 1 or 2), and what kind of amp.
If you don't want to look at the amp, the biggest culprit might be in distance from pickup to strings. Try going from 3.5 mm (about 2 quarters) almost 5 (like 3 quarters). Possibly even lower.
Come to think of it, try that first
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
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Roger Francis
From:
kokomo,Indiana, USA
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Posted 18 Jun 2014 5:49 pm
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I had the same problem some yrs ago when i had a truetone, i sent it back to jerry and he sent me a new one, fixed the problem but i really dont know if it was my bad soldering to the jack or if it WAS the pickup, still a mystery
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Rittenberry SD10, 2 nashville 112s with telonics speaker, behringer EPQ450 power amp, 705 pups, Telonics FP-100, live steel strings, mogami cords, wet reverb |
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Olli Haavisto
From:
Jarvenpaa,Finland
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Posted 18 Jun 2014 9:15 pm
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Try it with a different volume pedal.
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Olli Haavisto
Finland |
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Chris Tarrow
From:
Maplewood, NJ
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Posted 20 Jun 2014 11:25 am
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| Thanks for the responses. In the end I realized I had a guitar cable (and not a TRS cable) running into my pro tools interface. (duh). |
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