Chris Hurley
Power User
Greetings folks-
I wanted to bounce this off of the community and see if anybody had any comments or suggestions. In addition to other more traditional applications, I'm trying to use my FM3 as a stomp box replacement in front of my tube amp. Ideally, I'd like to be able to boost the tube amp with an EQ pedal or drive block to get more of the amp's own overdrive.
Out of the box, this works fine but there is a noticable hiss from the FM3 in an application like this. From what I understand, this is inevitable D/A noise and is the reason for the boost/pad setting to exist.
Increasing Boost/Pad dramatically reduces the hiss, but it also seems to reduce your ability to drive the outputs without clipping which hits my application right in the nose.
I'm thinking that the answer really is: "Reduce Hiss, or Be able to drive the amp harder, pick one."
Any comments or thoughts?
Its a killer piece of gear. I thought I would fix it by simply putting an EQ pedal in front of the amp but after the FM3 to boost up its signal but as you might imagine, the EQ pedal is much noisier than the DA noise coming from the FM3. Maybe its just the case of pick between "low noise" and "output capability".
I don't remember having this same issue on my Axe-FX 3, so this may just be a difference on the FM3.
I appreciate any useful comments or suggestions.
I wanted to bounce this off of the community and see if anybody had any comments or suggestions. In addition to other more traditional applications, I'm trying to use my FM3 as a stomp box replacement in front of my tube amp. Ideally, I'd like to be able to boost the tube amp with an EQ pedal or drive block to get more of the amp's own overdrive.
Out of the box, this works fine but there is a noticable hiss from the FM3 in an application like this. From what I understand, this is inevitable D/A noise and is the reason for the boost/pad setting to exist.
Increasing Boost/Pad dramatically reduces the hiss, but it also seems to reduce your ability to drive the outputs without clipping which hits my application right in the nose.
I'm thinking that the answer really is: "Reduce Hiss, or Be able to drive the amp harder, pick one."
Any comments or thoughts?
Its a killer piece of gear. I thought I would fix it by simply putting an EQ pedal in front of the amp but after the FM3 to boost up its signal but as you might imagine, the EQ pedal is much noisier than the DA noise coming from the FM3. Maybe its just the case of pick between "low noise" and "output capability".
I don't remember having this same issue on my Axe-FX 3, so this may just be a difference on the FM3.
I appreciate any useful comments or suggestions.