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Skarekrough
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So, I'm kinda fighting this battle with both a VOX valvetronix and a Line 6 POD XT with an Atomic 18 watter.
I tend to play pretty quietly at home. Most of the time I use headphones with the XT.
Recently I had some space available so I've been trying to play quietly at night in my basement.
The thing that is driving me nuts is the Noise Gate that both setups have.
If I play a note there is some underlying hum that occurs. Much of it was minimized by NOT turning on the flourescent lighting and switching out one of the patch cables I thought was quite high quality for one that I got cheap. Turns out that even with JUST the cable plugged into the amp and no guitar in the path the cheap cable is quieter!
But when I DO play there's this hiss I hear when I strike notes that tends to sit underneath everything. After I stop playing it dies off and the amo goes reasonably silent. But I would say that likely 20% of the sound I am hearing is this underlying hiss that goes away when some gate in the amp kicks in.
Anyone dealt with this before? It's just maddening and I wonder if I'm driving myself crazy.
Thanks...
I tend to play pretty quietly at home. Most of the time I use headphones with the XT.
Recently I had some space available so I've been trying to play quietly at night in my basement.
The thing that is driving me nuts is the Noise Gate that both setups have.
If I play a note there is some underlying hum that occurs. Much of it was minimized by NOT turning on the flourescent lighting and switching out one of the patch cables I thought was quite high quality for one that I got cheap. Turns out that even with JUST the cable plugged into the amp and no guitar in the path the cheap cable is quieter!
But when I DO play there's this hiss I hear when I strike notes that tends to sit underneath everything. After I stop playing it dies off and the amo goes reasonably silent. But I would say that likely 20% of the sound I am hearing is this underlying hiss that goes away when some gate in the amp kicks in.
Anyone dealt with this before? It's just maddening and I wonder if I'm driving myself crazy.
Thanks...
