As @Gregmang moonwalks silently out of the room. lol....but really - you brought up a point you were hearing and through the discussion kept you digging at the root cause - so issue solved and that's the important part. Nice that Cliff helped with the data too.I plead idiocy
I investigated further and it turns out I had turned on a saturater in my DAW chain - which as you can imagine added unwanted distortion. The reason the two tracks sounded so different was because only one had the saturation.
duh.
I’ll just leave now quietly….
There isn't so much less idiotic than figuring out where one might be mistaken, and learning from it. Admitting to it humbly and openly, I find both edifying of the person explaining where they went wrong, and incredibly helpful because my own rich learning experience is so strewn with errors and mistakes that I am trying to learn from.I plead idiocy
I investigated further and it turns out I had turned on a saturater in my DAW chain - which as you can imagine added unwanted distortion. The reason the two tracks sounded so different was because only one had the saturation.
duh.
I’ll just leave now quietly….
Yes, I really appreciate when users diagnose their own issues. It's easy to see a "problem" and then attribute it to the first thing we think of or project it onto some handy scapegoat without any analysis or critical thinking (much less self-reflection). This, I fear, is at least part of the growing polarization in the world.
In this spirit, I wish kids were universally taught general 'problem diagnosis', 'root cause analysis', and/or 'debugging'. The process of elimination (removing factors one-by-one), process of addition (start with smallest system then adding factors one-by-one) or process of swapping (take a component out and replace it with a different one) don't seem to be commonly used or understood. And it takes effort .
Also the concepts "correlation is not (necessarily) causation" and that reality is rarely has only one thing changing at a time, so it's better to not assume one seemingly "obvious" factor is the sole cause of A, B or C. Science would have gotten nowhere without healthy curiosity and methodological sleuthing.
There isn't so much less idiotic than figuring out where one might be mistaken, and learning from it. Admitting to it humbly and openly, I find both edifying of the person explaining where they went wrong, and incredibly helpful
Cue cousin Vinny:
Wait... isn't Matt supposed to be the good cop???
Personally, I would love to help her out with that biological clock issue....I was hoping Marisa Tomei was going to break in the conversation with a detailed discussion about intermodular distortion and skew rates after telling us her three brothers, two cousins and an uncle were all guitar amp techs, programmers and electrical engineers.
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I plead idiocy
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I’ll just leave now quietly….
From the wiki:Is it me or does the 2290 w/modulation delay in the delay block broken ? There are no delays coming out of it
Im not at my axe fx right now but the only think (if I recall) after my delay is the reverb. Thats the outcome block after it.From the wiki:
"Why don't I hear repeats from the 2290 delay type?
The 2290 delay type has phase on one side reversed and must be heard in stereo. If the signal is summed to mono after the Delay block, delay repeats will disappear because of phase cancellation."
Just checked the 2290 > Reverb > Output 1 and it works as expected here. A quick check of some settings/parameters, I found a couple of things than can kill the 2290 delays: Either the Mix or Input Gain in the Delay block set to zero or the Output block set to SUM L+R.Im not at my axe fx right now but the only think (if I recall) after my delay is the reverb. Thats the outcome block after it.
Ok thank you for your help. I'll have a check when I'm back at my studioJust checked the 2290 > Reverb > Output 1 and it works as expected here. A quick check of some settings/parameters, I found a couple of things than can kill the 2290 delays: Either the Mix or Input Gain in the Delay block set to zero or the Output block set to SUM L+R.
@bread Go to modulation page of the 2290, and change “phase reverse” setting to “none”. I bet it’s set to “right”. This is from memory so I may have the setting names wrong. But there is a phase cancellation going on with the stock settings that cuts out the delay when not in stereo.