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11-08-2008, 02:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Reston, VA | | | EBS Pedals: Do others find them noisy?
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I recently bought an EBS ValveDrive to add some fat, warm tube sound to my rig. Lots of hissssss, hummmm, and static. The tone behind all that noise is very nice. But it's also kind of nice to turn it off and lose all that noise. Do others find EBS pedals to be noisy? Is it just mine? Any troubleshooting ideas? |
11-08-2008, 03:04 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Diego, California | | | Do you have any high gain effects before it in the chain? |
11-08-2008, 03:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Reston, VA | | | No. I hooked it up by itself (not as part of my pedal board) and used my passive P Bass |
11-08-2008, 03:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Diego, California | | | Is it equally noisy at every setting? What kind of electric environment are you using it in? Are you used to tube amps/effects at all? |
11-08-2008, 03:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Reston, VA | | | yea, noise at all settings except off. I had an Ampeg SVT 3 and I currently have an SWR Baby Blue and a Genz Shuttle 6.0 which are all tube pre-amps. The SWR BB is a little noisy but also needs to be serviced. The Genz is new and is quieter than a whisper. The SVT 3 was quiet too. But I don't have any other tube effects.
I don't remember the ValveDrive being noisy in the music store so maybe I got a bad one?
Last edited by lowbassgroove : 11-08-2008 at 03:19 PM.
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11-08-2008, 04:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Diego, California | | | Maybe so, or a tube has gone south |
11-08-2008, 04:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Reston, VA | | | thanks. Maybe it is a tube. It's less than a week old! I've contacted EBS. We'll see if they can troublesoot or tell me it's normal.
thank you for the feedback |
11-08-2008, 04:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Portland, OR | | | I had a Valve Drive and sold it. The tone didn't really fit my band, but on top of that I did find it to be really noisy when activated. I have the MultiDrive and Wah One now and both are very quiet and sound great. |
11-08-2008, 04:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Brighton, UK | | | I played an EBS ValveDrive about 3 or 4 months ago, and come to think of it actually I did find it a little noisy...not outrageously bad, but it's definitely there in the background - in a band situation, it might be one of those things where it's never really an issue when used live but for recording (especially direct) it might be.
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11-08-2008, 11:53 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: NY / NJ / PA | | | i own 4: valvedrive, multicomp, octabass, bassiq, and they're all quiet.
but admittedly, i went thru 2 valvedrives cause there were rather shoddily built. |
11-08-2008, 11:57 PM
|  | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | My Valvedrive isn't noisy.
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11-09-2008, 12:01 AM
|  | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | | I've had owned or tried a number of EBS pedals though none of them were the ValveDrive (Bass IQ, Octabass, Multidrive, Unichorus and Multicomp) and they were all very quiet.
If it's not a tube problem, you may have a lemon. |
11-09-2008, 05:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Slovenija (Europe) | | | i have octabass nad bass iq... and they are not noise free pedals... but the noise is tolerable...
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11-09-2008, 05:38 AM
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Endorsing Artist:D'Addario Strings & Planet Waves Accessories | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: nashville, tn | | | I really think you have a faulty Valve Drive or the tube is bad. It shouldn't be adding noise like that...
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