Line 6 pedals! I have found the culprit!!

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RockNRoling

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OMG! I have started several threads trying to isolate the nasty hum that my amps have had. I have tried replacing out every cable in the loop, retubing my amp, selling my amp to get a different one and the whole time it was my stupid Line 6 Tone Core pedal! The guy at Guitar center must have not known what he was talking about when he said a standard BOSS power addapter would work for this. I just unhooked the power supply to the pedal and instant silene. I use to have an MM4 and knew that had a seporate power supply or at least a L6 adapter. I can not believe that one little thing has been messin me up for months now! Thanks to everyone that did there best to help me out in all my various threads!
 
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When I purchased the Echo Park and Constrictor back in 2005, they had a mail in rebate to get a L6 power supply for every pedal you bought. Were you using a dedicated Boss style adapter or a daisy chained adapter?

It's cool that running on batteries eliminated the buzz, but man do those things eat batteries!
 
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When another guitar player tells me he has a noise issue cables are the first thing to check and afer that I look into his pedal board power set up....
 
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The Tonecore line is really odd. Many report noise issues, typically if they are using it daisy chained with another adapter. I tried it with a daisy chained OneSpot and it worked fine. I tried it with the l6 adatper which I also bought, worked fine. Same with battery (though it sucked it down in like 30 minutes)

Tried another pedal of theirs and it had some noise even with the L6 adapter, only battery would prove quiet.

read some reviews and you'll get a ton of conflicting noise reports and my (limited) experience with the two I've owned certainly showed this.

Seems really hit or miss if you'll get one thats quiet regardless, or maybe one that wil only work with isolated power, or maybe nothing at all.

got to love L6 as they make buying a pedal extra exciting with the element of chance lol
 
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For what its worth, I did NOT have the noise issues with a Danoelectro adapter on my Echo Park. Batteries don't really work, especially due to how they bypass (buffered and leaves the LED on to add insult to injury); you'll be lucky to get 30 minutes.
 
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WoW! the salesperson at GC did not know what he was talking about,

that's a first...............I quit going to GC for that reason.
 
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CJRocker said:
For what its worth, I did NOT have the noise issues with a Danoelectro adapter on my Echo Park. Batteries don't really work, especially due to how they bypass (buffered and leaves the LED on to add insult to injury); you'll be lucky to get 30 minutes.
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For some reason I thought they were true bypass by using a switching relay? (depending on the setting, trails on or off...) I can't confirm that though.
 
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requires to work at GC are 1) tat's, long hair and/or facial piercings 2) ability to withstand hour after hour of 13 year olds "shredding" on Line6 amps at 150db without wanting to shoot yourself. Knowledge optional

To be fair though, some GC employee's do know their stuff, particullary the pro audio guys.
 
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millsart said:
requires to work at GC are 1) tat's, long hair and/or facial piercings 2) ability to withstand hour after hour of 13 year olds "shredding" on Line6 amps at 150db without wanting to shoot yourself. Knowledge optional

To be fair though, some GC employee's do know their stuff, particullary the pro audio guys.
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... I worked @ GC... '89 - early 90s. We had to have *some* working knowledge of guitars/amps/FX/pro audio to get hired... but having "the look" and musician "attitude" mattered most... not to mention we had to give up any semblance of guilt or conscience we had re: reaming the customer in their hinies... especially around Christmastime.
 
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Keep in mind in the 4 months I had the amp, (my old ampeg VL), the heater core melted the conectors, and then two months after that one of my power tubes went bad and that fried another one of the wires in the circuit board. I was thinking there was some kind of grounding problem in the FX loop. I did try it strait into the amp and also with just my delay in the FX loop. So I knew it wasn't the amp. I would never sell an amp that wasn't working 100% BUT, I play a lot of gigs and need an amp that has consistancy. I give an amp 2 strikes before i send it packing. Plus I found a Peavey XXX for a steal and I had to buy it. everything has worked out in the end.
 
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the retubing was because 3 of the 4 tubes were bad when I took it in. It did have noise issues as well as volume fluxuations when I played it. I am not that nieve!! The part that kept of fooling me was that this was a pedal i have in my rack (thru my GCX looper). Most of my expiriences with noisey pedals only happens when the pedal is in the chain. This was completely bypassed from the loop, one would have thought this noise would have only been present when that loop was activated.
 
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millsart said:
I tried it with a daisy chained OneSpot and it worked fine.
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That's also my experience.. My OneSpot powers four pedals in addition to my Verbzilla, and it's a pretty quiet system. I was sceptical about daisy chaining with the Line6 at first, but I was proved wrong. To top this, some of the pedals are in the FX loop and some are up front, but the OneSpot doesn't do funny stuff for me with that setup either, as I have seen some people has had problem with..
 
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Tor said:
That's also my experience.. My OneSpot powers four pedals in addition to my Verbzilla, and it's a pretty quiet system. I was sceptical about daisy chaining with the Line6 at first, but I was proved wrong. To top this, some of the pedals are in the FX loop and some are up front, but the OneSpot doesn't do funny stuff for me with that setup either, as I have seen some people has had problem with..
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technically, i am using a Godlyke Power all (pretty much the exact same thing) I find it wierd that they can handle the 4 button pedals fine with the adapter, but not the single pedals...
 
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PFDarkside said:
For some reason I thought they were true bypass by using a switching relay? (depending on the setting, trails on or off...) I can't confirm that though.
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Gut feeling is buffered due to the fact they aren't advertised as true bypass, and the fact the light stays on, when there isn't much reason to imo.
 
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