PlanetGuitar
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I’ve been having issues again where most of my dirt amp presets sound like fuzz pedals.
The first thing I did was to set my padding to 18db. My guitar signal does not show up in the red as much as the 0db pad setting does. I lowered my bridge pickup and played through a clean amp setting and lowered the gain as low as it could go.
What’s happening is that when I strum/pluck my low E string above the bridge pickup, it distorts as if the input has no headroom (not a pleasing amp overdrive tone). I had this happen on a vintage circuit vibe pedal that could not handle humbuckers that well.
And, I think the overall tone is affected, like low powerchords chugga chugga with much definition. There is no definition.
Could there be a problem with the input on my FM3. Conversely, would an active pickup bass cause the input to get effed up? Do I need to get it repaired? Can it be repaired?
Someone please tell me this can be fixed.
The first thing I did was to set my padding to 18db. My guitar signal does not show up in the red as much as the 0db pad setting does. I lowered my bridge pickup and played through a clean amp setting and lowered the gain as low as it could go.
What’s happening is that when I strum/pluck my low E string above the bridge pickup, it distorts as if the input has no headroom (not a pleasing amp overdrive tone). I had this happen on a vintage circuit vibe pedal that could not handle humbuckers that well.
And, I think the overall tone is affected, like low powerchords chugga chugga with much definition. There is no definition.
Could there be a problem with the input on my FM3. Conversely, would an active pickup bass cause the input to get effed up? Do I need to get it repaired? Can it be repaired?
Someone please tell me this can be fixed.