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Post by ledzep618 on Oct 15, 2012 14:11:26 GMT -7
All of a sudden I'm getting a noticeable volume drop and marked tone degradation when I'm running through my pedal board. I have tried every single pedal individually (to eliminate patch cables), I have tried different guitar cables (to eliminate a cable issue), I have run the pedals on both battery and through my Pedal Power II (In case the power unit was the problem) and I just don't know what to do next.
I didn't have this issue until last night and it is like a flip switched and all of a sudden I get this noticeable volume loss.
I do not think it is anything with the M12, b/c plugging the guitar straight into the amp sounds as it should (huge and glorious) but immediately upon plugging into any pedal my volume is throttled and my tone looses a lot of treble definition, becoming very muddy.
Any ideas?
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Post by DRem on Oct 15, 2012 14:31:24 GMT -7
Have you got any pedals with a buffer built in. I have a dedicated buffer pedal first in line which sorts out any tone loss
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2012 16:27:52 GMT -7
Do you run "pedal switchers" for your board? If so, how is your straight through signal? Clean input and output jacks & plugs with DeOxit might help. I've had a few bypass switches wear out (or whatever they do) - and degrade the rest of my board.
tom
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Post by ledzep618 on Oct 15, 2012 18:22:34 GMT -7
Yeah, I don't have any buffered pedals. Might have to look into picking up a dedicated buffer to throw in front of everything. From everything I'm reading it sounds like an issue with buffering.
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Post by Maddog on Oct 15, 2012 18:51:11 GMT -7
Since it happened so quickly, I'd be looking for a bad cable or as Tom said, "Clean input and output jacks & plugs with DeOxit might help."
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Post by jesslm02 on Oct 15, 2012 20:52:09 GMT -7
Sounds like a bad cable connection or they could just be dirty. And as they pointed out, switches can go bad.
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Post by ledzep618 on Oct 17, 2012 7:35:24 GMT -7
I think I have figure it out...it's a cable problem, but a strange cable problem - I just got new Lava Cable Retro Coil cables and they both sound great going guitar -> amp but for some reason when they two are hooked up in tandem through the pedal board I get this problem. With my older run of the mill cables the guitar -> amp tone is not as thick and warm as with the retro coil, but there is absolutely no tone degradation when running through the board and I can warm it up by boosting the bass a bit.
Kinda sucks, the Lava Cables are nice, but I'm returning them today. Don't think it's worth additionally getting a buffer pedal just to use two cables.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2012 8:59:12 GMT -7
Glad to hear you've found the problem. If you should need to replace a cable, forum member Todd (PCNS) has everything you'll need, and is a great guy to work with. VERY knowledgeable on anything cable or sound related... procablesnsound.com/PCNS_Main.asptom
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