frankenbeans
Experienced
5%. My Majesty is hot.
King Charles says that to the mirror while brushing his teeth every morning.My Majesty is hot.
Really?5%. My Majesty is hot.
I also play Solars but with DiMarzio D'Activator and Crunch Lab pickups at roughly 11 ohms each. Mine's at 90% and I've done the process as Mr Fender described and I'm not clipping the input by checking a recorded DI in the DAW. Still a bit confused why mine's so high though...?I play Solar guitars and my sensitivity is very low like 5% or something and I still clip the red. It has direct mount pickups and I use very heavy strings for low tunings.
I think the revision of the Majesty that I have has pickups that are very bassy, in addition to being hot in general. If I cut the bass out front with an OD pedal, the red tickling isn’t as frequent. That said, I think all of my humbucker-equipped guitars would be clipping like crazy with 90% input sensitivity, so I do find your experience interesting.Really?
My guitar with Di Marzio D'Activators, which are supposed to be very hot, I have it set at 90% and I'm barely ticking the red. Also reading various other post with guitars with hot pickups making me think there's some serious wrong my end....
Yeah, on the other hand - my tones sounds perfectly good, but I also find it interesting why my input setting differ so much from others.I think the revision of the Majesty that I have has pickups that are very bassy, in addition to being hot in general. If I cut the bass out front with an OD pedal, the red tickling isn’t as frequent. That said, I think all of my humbucker-equipped guitars would be clipping like crazy with 90% input sensitivity, so I do find your experience interesting.
DC resistance is not really the indicator of hot the output is. Pickup wire thickness, number of wraps, etc dictates the output level.I also play Solars but with DiMarzio D'Activator and Crunch Lab pickups at roughly 11 ohms each. Mine's at 90% and I've done the process as Mr Fender described and I'm not clipping the input by checking a recorded DI in the DAW. Still a bit confused why mine's so high though...?
For sure, but D'Activators are supposed to be the passive alternative to actives so they are hot.DC resistance is not really the indicator of hot the output is. Pickup wire thickness, number of wraps, etc dictates the output level.
I would put it a little differently. If the red led lights up, you have exceeded -6dB and you might be clipping. It doesn’t tell you anything about how much headroom you have.Tickling the red also means you have 6db of headroom before limiting,
Yes. This is just an indication really - a baseline - I trust my ears more.I would put it a little differently. If the red led lights up, you have exceeded -6dB and you might be clipping. It doesn’t tell you anything about how much headroom you have.
DI = Direct Injection. It's a recording directly from the input with no processing at all. Record a signal from USB Inputs 5 and/or 6 to capture the signal directly from the Instrument input jack (Input 1).
Got ya! My point is if one is barely causing the red light to go off when actually attempting to make it go off purposely, chances are, if the signal does trigger the limiter with normal playing, I would greatly assume it’s a non issue, especially when the wiki states to set it up this way. But I can’t imagine that my loudest hits when barely causing the red to go off would happen to be a 7+db increase every time the red light goes off.I would put it a little differently. If the red led lights up, you have exceeded -6dB and you might be clipping. It doesn’t tell you anything about how much headroom you have.