ChiroVette
Inspired
Okay, I know the manual talks about tickling the red in the LED input meters, and I am doing that on all presets and scenes.
Recently, I noticed that in some of my presets (Lukather and Gary Moore) when I am playing through any of the high-gain scenes with heavy distortion and processing, when I pick a little more aggressively, as you sometimes do for solos in their genres, and the guitar volume and expression pedals are cranked, I get a red message on the FM9 above the preset name that says, "IN1 CLIP" for usually very brief moments.
Is this something that should concern me? I honestly don't hear a difference in real time when playing, but I am assuming that's because the scenes that this happens in are all heavy-distortion and highly processed/effected signals. The little red clip warning doesn't ever stay on very long, usually just a microsecond, maybe longer if I keep picking hard. I can sometimes force it to stay on for like a second or a little more.
I haven't been too concerned with it so far, because the only time it happens is with scenes that have heavy distortion. It doesn't seem to occur with any of my cleaner tones or even light overdrive tones.
Other than lowering my pickup height, which I read in this forum some suggested to do, is there another solution? That is assuming it is a problem. I mean, if I tickle the red LED's a little, and that's all right, can I also see this as "tickling the IN 1 Clip" light as being essentially equivalent?
Thanks all!
Edit: You know what? Maybe this is a non-issue. I am usually a light-tough player. I just tried something now, and noticed that when I am playing some of the heavier solos in metal'ish sounds like Moore and Lukather, that I can actually eliminate the clip message all together by just forcing myself to play lighter, as per my usual style, and not dig in so hard in the pick. The solos sounded just as good to my ear playing a tad lighter as they do when I pick those notes harder.
Recently, I noticed that in some of my presets (Lukather and Gary Moore) when I am playing through any of the high-gain scenes with heavy distortion and processing, when I pick a little more aggressively, as you sometimes do for solos in their genres, and the guitar volume and expression pedals are cranked, I get a red message on the FM9 above the preset name that says, "IN1 CLIP" for usually very brief moments.
Is this something that should concern me? I honestly don't hear a difference in real time when playing, but I am assuming that's because the scenes that this happens in are all heavy-distortion and highly processed/effected signals. The little red clip warning doesn't ever stay on very long, usually just a microsecond, maybe longer if I keep picking hard. I can sometimes force it to stay on for like a second or a little more.
I haven't been too concerned with it so far, because the only time it happens is with scenes that have heavy distortion. It doesn't seem to occur with any of my cleaner tones or even light overdrive tones.
Other than lowering my pickup height, which I read in this forum some suggested to do, is there another solution? That is assuming it is a problem. I mean, if I tickle the red LED's a little, and that's all right, can I also see this as "tickling the IN 1 Clip" light as being essentially equivalent?
Thanks all!
Edit: You know what? Maybe this is a non-issue. I am usually a light-tough player. I just tried something now, and noticed that when I am playing some of the heavier solos in metal'ish sounds like Moore and Lukather, that I can actually eliminate the clip message all together by just forcing myself to play lighter, as per my usual style, and not dig in so hard in the pick. The solos sounded just as good to my ear playing a tad lighter as they do when I pick those notes harder.
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