Can a guitar not work with a pedal? help me :'(

[epi]

I was using my Marshall JCM800 2203 last night and wanted to use my Metal Muff that usually works... So I hook it up to my RGA7 and it sounded horrid! Like it wasnt fully plugged in or a bad connection. So I thought it was the cord I tried both seperatly plugged straight to the Marshall they both sound good, so I plugged it back into the Metal Muff and it was still bad I tried the knobs and it want good. So I tried my SG and it sounded great both cords and the Metal Muff but not the RG. So can a guitar not work with a pedal? Please help!

 

[chadd]

Re: Can a guitar not work with a pedal? help me :'(

It happens all the time, especially with fuzz pedals.

 

[jon the art guy]

Re: Can a guitar not work with a pedal? help me :'(

gotta turn the gain down and run relatively clean. Metal Muffs are really huge distortion/fuzz pedals, so running as near-clean as you can will have to happen or you'll just end up with a muted buzz that has no guitarish sound at all. You're pushing the amp way past clipping to the point that everything but some fundamental bass hum is getting through.

 

[epi]

Re: Can a guitar not work with a pedal? help me :'(

I am not saying you are wrong but I turned everything down to nothing except volume... It sounds really bad still...

 

[jon the art guy]

Re: Can a guitar not work with a pedal? help me :'(

did you use a speaker cable or a messed up cable?
are you on a battery?

 

[epi]

Re: Can a guitar not work with a pedal? help me :'(

did you use a speaker cable or a messed up cable?
are you on a battery?

No I am using amp cables or whatever but it works 100% awesome on my SG but it doesn't work good at all on the RG

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Can a guitar not work with a pedal? help me :'(

It happens.

Obvious causes include dirty/old strings, string action set too low, extreme down tuning, flat battery with active circuitry, collapsed Tune-o-matic bridge, incorrect fit of ball ends into through-body stringing ferrules, cracked top nut, yadda, yadda.

Some pickups drive pedals sweetly. Others do not. In extreme cases, the pickups fry the ICs in digital circuits.

 

[TheLivingDead]

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Is the new Ibby wired up correctly? Does it sound normal without the Metal Muff?

Maybe something came loose. Check the wiring. Troubleshoot that jank.

 

[epi]

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I fixed it! Lol its just my cord is really loose so I needed to tape it I am buying another jack soon

 

[dominus]

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I fixed it! Lol its just my cord is really loose so I needed to tape it I am buying another jack soon

Probably get away with just resoldering the connector on it... or it could even be that the prongs are a little bent outwards so you don't get a good connection. Just bend them towards each other a little bit.

 

[Andrew Lamprecht]

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What dom said.

 

[Johnny the Kid]

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On the topic of do some guitars not work with certain pedals. Absolutely. It's not a new problem. Some just sound with certain guitars or pedals than others do.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Can a guitar not work with a pedal? help me :'(

Sometimes, a combination that ought to sound good "browns out". Every once in a while, a bunch of gear that, on paper, ought to sound appalling, produces an unexpectedly fabulous racket.

CASE IN POINT
Mid-price guitar into overdriven Blackstar HT-5H with Boss Slicer, Catalinbread Echorec and Boss Fender Reverb pedals in the send/return loop. Slicer set to loop. Instant Pink Floyd sequence à la "One Slip".

 

[Kamanda~SD]

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I fixed it! Lol its just my cord is really loose so I needed to tape it I am buying another jack soon

Jeeze man, if your in the barhaven area shoot me a pm I work at the store out there I can help ya out with that

 

[epi]

Re: Can a guitar not work with a pedal? help me :'(

Jeeze man, if your in the barhaven area shoot me a pm I work at the store out there I can help ya out with that

is the store handicap accessible?

 

[dominus]

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I have a metal muff sitting around. To be honest, I think it sounds horrible. Very brittle and cold highs, and the mids have weird spikes.

There are a lot of "metal" pedals around which I think sound better, but right now I like the SD Twin Tube Mayhem which has the same kind of vibe as the metal muff, just better:

I got *much* better tones out of the Metal Muff than the Twin Tube Mayhem, both times I tried each one.

 

[theboatcandream]

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I got *much* better tones out of the Metal Muff than the Twin Tube Mayhem, both times I tried each one.

Is your amp dark and dull sounding, and do you play black metal?

 

[dominus]

Re: Can a guitar not work with a pedal? help me :'(

Is your amp dark and dull sounding, and do you play black metal?

Guitar --> OD --> Distortion Pedal --> computer --> noise gate plugin --> EQ plugin --> power amp plugin --> speaker cab IR

I can sculpt just about any sound I want, but there has to be a fairly decent distortion sound in the first place. Maybe the problem I was having was that by the time I found enough gain out of the Twin Tube Mayhem, it was unusable in my setup.