Originally Posted by imported_timmyo
Rather annoyingly for Noisy (oh the irony of the name!) most of mine are OK. The reverb will probably go in the 'naughty box' anyway...otherwise it's MXR comp, modded Tubescreamer into Small Clone then into the Echo Park into the amp. He he - gawd knows what'll happen when I add a Vibratrem and/or phaser as I plan to. Pedal meltdown, no doubt!
Once they're all on the board it'll probably be less faff.
At least I know the boss psu works OK, so that's that sorted.
Last night I had them all wired up for the first time, then turned the amp up to "live conditions" (gain and master around halfway, but guitar volume at zero, obviously!) just to see how everything behaved.
Thoughts:
1) No extra noise from boss PSU. Good.
2) Deluxe Memory Man has quite a noisy preamp if you turn up the output so it matches the input signal. Apparently there's a mod for this and Sporky has kindly agreed to look into this for me at the same time as he's modding it for true bypass. There are also five (five!) internal trimpots which I am leaving well alone - whether they also may have any effect I don't know. Will probably email EHX.
3) On fairly enthusiastic amp settings, most of the pedals usually make a clicking or popping noise when switching them on/off, whether the psu is plugged in or not. At the moment I don't know why this is, whether it's normal or whether it will be audible alongside drums etc. Any thoughts?
Not unusual - that's generally down to poor DC decoupling. Not a lot you can do about it; if it's really bad then replacing the input and output caps can help.
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A solution to your 'volume boost' for the lead break is to have a second amplifier with an A/B switch to select one or the other. If the Cube is as good as you say, why not use it miked up for the lead break with an A/B/Y switch box [your rhythm amp will let you hear your solo while the audience hears the Cube through the PA.
Just a thought....
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Did you have a couple of dozen people chatting or ordering drinks in the background?
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It's an interesting idea...tbh I'm not sure if the Cube really is 'that' good - the rest of my bandmates have been saying that they didn't think it was as good as the Marshall after all
BUT, the Cube does have a 'Tuner Out' which is basically just the input signal sent to an output - so what I could do is plug my guitar into the cube, then plug the cube tuner out into my Marshall. Then I could set up the cube clean channel to zero volume, set the lead channel to a nice lead voice with delay and stuff and just use one footswitch to kick in the cube for solos...actually, that's a great idea! I'm going to try it...
...all sorts of possibilities there...I could set the cube up with particular effects and just kick it in and out as required...
so you complain that stompboxes are impractical then suggest using an entire amp as a stompbox? Talk about contrary!
lol
I know, but actually it's pretty simple...and I have been taking it to gigs anyway as a backup, but haven't used it yet...so may as well plug it in
My Advice don't make any rash decisions! i like the idea of a naughty box because right now you won't get anything for them as people can't afford their shopping and petrol never mind a FX pedal and once we have got through this recession u might love them or hate em but decide then
I'm slightly surprised and miffed that it seems to be loudest with the Subdecay pedals.
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