jerotas
Experienced
Unless I'm mistaken, he was apologizing for not being helpful, not saying your posts weren't.
I re-read it again, maybe you're right. I apologize if so. I took the "as you were" part to mean something else possibly.
Unless I'm mistaken, he was apologizing for not being helpful, not saying your posts weren't.
Did you mention somewhere in this thread why you feel Out1 needs to be higher than 50%
Also, what pickups do you have?
Funny, never happens to me. Even with my "unplayable" tone. In fact, just the opposite.
I wasn't helpful? Ok, next time I find a potential bug, I'll keep it to myself and there will be no possibility of it getting fixed.
Yes. When recording I've had to bump down the Master fader in my DAW somewhat when monitoring the signal when at 50%. There may be some input gain I can add in the MOTU control panel, I'll take a look.
Pickups are some of the best pickups on the planet. This set here. His company wins pickup shootouts regularly. All hand-wound.
American Steele Set (ASTs)
There's nothing wrong with the pickups. It's probably mostly my drive block. I'll try some minor tweaks and see if it gets fixed. And - I also tested my patch with 3 random passive pickup guitars at Guitar Center. They all had the exact same problem. So yeah, it's not the pickups.
Remember the 1500 hz setting is a not a brick wall filter. It is just the cut off frequency where the rolloff starts.
You are definitely letting significant amounts of energy above 1500 through with this setting.
I didn't think there was anything wrong with the pickups; I was more just curious if there was a frequency response chart available for them.
Honestly, my recommendation (and this comes separately from the fact that I think there's more going here, because, as I said earlier, I'm getting a similar issue with much less gain) would be to go do some research for yourself on gain staging. You may end up feeling exactly the same as you do now, but at least then you'd be able to make an informed choices, rather than just having people repeatedly tell you "turn it down" without any context.
There was clearly something lost in translation here. When GM Arts said "as you were" it is a military command to return to the previous position and can also mean a statement to withdraw something just said.
Oh ok, I thought it was like a high pass where nothing gets through at all.
I haven't seen a chart of their response. They aren't crazy treble like "Screamin Demons" though, I can tell you that much.
First thing I'm going to try is less volume and high cut on the drive block until just shy of the point where I think it doesn't sound good.
Yes. When recording I've had to bump down the Master fader in my DAW somewhat when monitoring the signal when at 50%. There may be some input gain I can add in the MOTU control panel, I'll take a look.
Pickups are some of the best pickups on the planet. This set here. His company wins pickup shootouts regularly. All hand-wound.
American Steele Set (ASTs)
There's nothing wrong with the pickups. It's probably mostly my drive block. I'll try some minor tweaks and see if it gets fixed. And - I also tested my patch with 3 random passive pickup guitars at Guitar Center. They all had the exact same problem. So yeah, it's not the pickups.
They are potted. Did you read my whole post that you quoted? I tried 3 other random guitars at the store and they all had the same problem. 4 out of 4 other users that tried the patch on this thread verified as well. We're past this part. The problem exists and it happens to all passive pickup guitars on this type of setting.This suggestion is probably a dead end, but ..., I checked the website and didn't see it mentioned one way or the other ?
Some Boutique Pickup winders ( especially when they're going for PAF authenticity ) offer "non-potted" options, or ..., in some cases you have to ask for them to be potted ....
Any chance your set of pickups aren't potted ? That would possibly explain a lot ?
I've got an American Steele set like the doesn''m not positive but I think Jim pots everything. Mine behave well at loud volumes but I don't play hi gain. I'm more of a Marshall / Bogner / Dumble guy when I'm not playing clean.
Jim pots with what he calls "secret sauce". It cuts the squeals but still allows the coils to resonate with the wood of the guitar.
I only use Jim Wagner pickups, with 99% of my axes having a Godwood bridge (I alternate between the Crossroads & Godwood in the neck, love the American Steele combo). Best PUPs ever- handle a myriad of styles and tones, split well, literally the pickup worlds version of the Axe FX.
And remember, kids, they're JIM WAGNER pickups so forget the old moniker.
JWP Guitar Pickups
So I wonder if the special sauce though it's great makes it more sensitive to things like that, even more so than an amp, because I did the same test's to a few amps with the same two pedals I tested with the Axe II front input and rear input and NO feedback at the same level's of distortion from the pedals in the Amp's input like happens with the Axe's Front input, the amps acted like the Axe II's rear input.
That's my guess as well. Only Cliff would know for sure but he didn't want to explain what the unfixable problem is. He only wanted to post to say my patch is unplayable (my recording proves otherwise).