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Topic: distortion with Mullen G2 |
Mark Hargrove
From:
Iowa, USA
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Posted 27 Jan 2025 2:18 pm |
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Hello everyone, I am having trouble getting a clean tone through my system. I am a new to this so I could be doing any number of things wrong, and am looking for some advice. I am running a Mullen G2 SD10 through a Sarno black box, into a goodrich CD42 volume pedal, and into a fender twin tonemaster. I am getting some distortion, especially when hitting more than one string at a time, and it seems worse up the neck. The volume does not have to be up much to hear it.
Here are the things I have tried so far:
1. Running the steel directly into the amp does not help.
2. Using the volume pedal at lower volume does not help.
3. A different amp (Egnater Tweaker) has the same problem.
From reading some posts it seemed like lowering the pickup might help, but from what I can tell the pickup is as low as it will go (its about 3.5 mM right now). Turning the screws counter clockwise removes them, turning them clockwise raises the pickup.
Any suggestions?
Thanks for the consideration! |
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Larry Dering
From:
Missouri, USA
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Posted 27 Jan 2025 5:20 pm
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| I hope you tried different cables too. It sounds like a pickup problem. Has it always done this? Pretty hard to distort a Fender Twin. What are your volume and tone knobs set on? |
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Mark Hargrove
From:
Iowa, USA
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Posted 28 Jan 2025 7:23 am
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| I have messed with the volume and tone all over the place on the Fender (as well as the Egnator and a GK bass amp) and have the same problem. I have tried other cables with the same result. I am plugging the steel straight into the amp to try to get the problem solved. Is that the right approach? |
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Dave Grafe
From:
Hudson River Valley NY
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Posted 28 Jan 2025 8:50 am
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| If you tap the pickup with your finger does the thump distort? At this point the pickup appears to be the likely culprit. |
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