Noise floor

[Orvillain]

Doesnt the GigRig stuff have trails support in their switchers? I guess that leaves the return from the pedal "open" but closes the send.... or something.

yeah it does, but it leaves the return signal open, and closes the end.... as you say. Which keeps the baseline noise-floor of whatever pedal is in the loop, as part of the whole rig. so yeah, not the solution.

I do like my GigRig G3 - but I wish I'd gotten the smaller one!!

 

[MirrorProfiles]

No idea what’s out there, but couldn’t an expander just gently lower things once the level hits a certain threshold?

 

[DrewJD82]

He's got form for that too. He did post a video where he complained about some Chinese pedal company cloning his design once.

I don't get why anyone would still give him money tbh. The guys pretty pathetic.

When I started playing Strats again a demo for one of his Dumble sounding pedals popped up, the Steel Stringer or something, and I REALLY liked the demo I heard and my thought went immediately to "I wonder if I can easily swap out the enclosure it if I buy one used"

 

[SillyOctpuss]

When I started playing Strats again a demo for one of his Dumble sounding pedals popped up, the Steel Stringer or something, and I REALLY liked the demo I heard and my thought went immediately to "I wonder if I can easily swap out the enclosure it if I buy one used"

I actually bought a vertex wah after the whole scandal broke. Someone local to me sold it for £25 because he was too embarrassed to keep it anymore. I stuck a few stickers on it and used it for ages.

 

[DrewJD82]

Here is a pretty epic board finished this week for a local client. The signal chain is as follows: FX Engineering Mirage Comp---Shin-ei Psychedelic Machine----Shin Clean Boost---Chase Tone Preamp----Way Huge Blue Hippo---PI-01 Buffer in/out-----XTS Tejas Boost----Custom interface insert S/R---Klon----XTS Iridium Fuzz----XTS Multi-Drive----Aura Brown Sugar---Aura Crunch Master---JHS Andy Timmons---Vol----West Co. Hippy Shake---Strymon Mobius----Strymon Vontante----Free The Tone FF-1Y-----Source Audio Ventris---PI-01.

Here is nice Keyboard/Guitar board finished this week for a local client. The signal chain is as follows: L.A.S.D. PI-01----EH Platform Comp---EH Overlord Drive----Boos EQ-200---Strymon Deco---Boss MD-500---Eventide Pitchfactor----Maris Polymoon---Strymon Timeline---Strymon Big Sky----PI-01.In the clip I running into a Blankenship Twinplex and Naylor SD-60 in stereo.

I'd try hittin' these guys up for some advice, Orvie. This is literally their bread and butter. While he's not running this into a high gain amp, I'd have to imagine the quality of their shit allows one to do so without a bunch of noise.

 

[Orvillain]

I'd try hittin' these guys up for some advice, Orvie. This is literally their bread and butter. While he's not running this into a high gain amp, I'd have to imagine the quality of their shit allows one to do so without a bunch of noise.

Honestly, I think it is just the nature of the beast. Ed is probably on the money with some sort of expander at the end of the chain. But overall.... digital pedals generate noise, even if nothing is plugged into them.


Thermal noise, quantization noise, clock jitter, etc etc.

By themselves, it probably isn't much of an issue. But when you go into distortion (pedals or amps tbh!) you're going to bring that minimal noise floor clearly into the audible realm.

I might try a Fortin Zuul in the effects loop of my amp perhaps. That might help.