Alex C
Inspired
I'm currently on Quantum 2.00.
A week or two ago I had leveled my presets with the VU meter and then slightly by ear, and everything was good, as it had been the dozens of times I had leveled in the past.
Today I checked the VU meter on one of my main presets and saw that it was between -2 to -2.5dB, even though I had last leveled with 0dB as my target (with this same guitar and pickup and volume knob setting). I scanned through about 20 of my main presets and found a similar situation on all of them. I never adjusted global input level or anything like that, and although I couldn't explain why this was the case, I went through and re-leveled these 20 main presets to ~0dB.
After this I returned to the first preset I had leveled, and found that it was centered somewhere around -1.3 as I strummed. Even when I dug into the string, it didn't get higher than -1dB. I found a similar situation on the other presets that I had just leveled.
To eliminate the variable of string strumming strength, I saved the preset to a new location and added a synth block with a sine wave in front of the amp. I re-leveled to about 0dB (the meter varied by about +/- 0.4dB), saved, navigated to an adjacent preset and then back, and the VU meter now showed a reading with a center at about -1dB.
Below is a gif showing this behavior (sorry for the low quality; I wanted to keep the filesize down):
This was with the Two Stone amp model, but I tested it with a Supertweed and others, and it happens with those as well.
A week or two ago I had leveled my presets with the VU meter and then slightly by ear, and everything was good, as it had been the dozens of times I had leveled in the past.
Today I checked the VU meter on one of my main presets and saw that it was between -2 to -2.5dB, even though I had last leveled with 0dB as my target (with this same guitar and pickup and volume knob setting). I scanned through about 20 of my main presets and found a similar situation on all of them. I never adjusted global input level or anything like that, and although I couldn't explain why this was the case, I went through and re-leveled these 20 main presets to ~0dB.
After this I returned to the first preset I had leveled, and found that it was centered somewhere around -1.3 as I strummed. Even when I dug into the string, it didn't get higher than -1dB. I found a similar situation on the other presets that I had just leveled.
To eliminate the variable of string strumming strength, I saved the preset to a new location and added a synth block with a sine wave in front of the amp. I re-leveled to about 0dB (the meter varied by about +/- 0.4dB), saved, navigated to an adjacent preset and then back, and the VU meter now showed a reading with a center at about -1dB.
Below is a gif showing this behavior (sorry for the low quality; I wanted to keep the filesize down):
This was with the Two Stone amp model, but I tested it with a Supertweed and others, and it happens with those as well.