have you tried turning on the noise gate?
Hi Simeon. I am sure it is on but I'll double check tonight. BTW - its not the traditional amp "hum" that the gate was designed to suppress. There
is a typical amp hum in the Sub Blues
too but I can deal with that, either with the gate or by turning down the guitar volume pot when I am not playing.
What I am hearing is separate from the typical amp hum that follows the guitar volume pot - I am also hearing a separate hiss - a steady "shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" sound - that (I believe) is independent of the gate and guitar volume pot. Instead, it corresponds to the AXE output volume level (I believe).
Its a soft shhhhh when I keep the Axe front panel output knob to between 9 to 10 O'Clock. But if the output knob is 11 O'Clock or above its really distracting.
Moreover, I
really want the dynamic response that I get from keeping the guitar volume pot between 2 and 7. I find that if the AXE output volume is less than 10 O'Clock I end up having to keep the guitar volume pot at say 7 to 10 and that is too hot with too much breakup in "soft touch" circumstances. So keeping the guitar volume pot at 7 to 10 really works against my playing style as I am looking for that dynamic response - which the AXE has
plenty of - as a fantastic source of inspiration for improvisation.
The Sub Blues tones underneath this shhhhhhhhhhhh with a single coil guitar and the volume pot throttled back between 2 to 7 are clearly distinguishable under the shhhhhhhhhhh and are just phenomenal - really dynamic in response - incredible amp sim. :encouragement:
Its really worth it for me to chase this problem down which I hope can be pinned down to something
I am doing wrong, or something inherent in the Vintage Recto preset I copied and dropped the Sub Blues into. I just hope its nothing baked into the Sub Blues amp sim because (I believe) that would be beyond my control and ability to chase away with a few tweaks.
I am not having this problem in other sims so I can't imagine its the CLRs. They are incredibly quiet with even a slight gate threshold on. So quiet that I have knocked myself out of my chair on more than one occassion when I feared the CLRs were powered down and hit a power chord chop to test whether it was on or not.