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You and everyone else (well, not me, but almost everyone). People who have them tend to love them, and there's just not that many of them out there.
Lowendtech
Happily trending in my own peculiar direction.
jacoby75
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Monocomp in the classifieds for an incredibly reasonable price. No affiliation.
I had mine at the end before the Messenger, but I took the advice from this thread to put it after the Messenger as last in chain.
It's currently off the board for now but may make a reappearance or place on a new board pending financial prudence.
I’m affiliated. Seller is a solid person person.
jacoby75
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jacoby75
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Only had mine a day, but so far last in chain before SSDI.
jacoby75
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Update: AFTER SSDI is more gooder. However, taking the 1/4” line out of the SSDI to the RFE then to the Messenger is so hot that I can’t get the volume of the SSDI past 10:00 without making my Messenger fart out. Even at 24v. But when I utilize the recently-discovered trick of running an XLR-1/4” cable out of the SSDI into the RFE then Messenger, get a pretty bad hum.
I may just have to make do with 10:00 on the SSDI. Who knows? In a real-world scenario, that might be plenty loud. But I definitely like the RFE better after the SSDI than before.
Or maybe it’s just making the headphone amp of the Messenger fart out, and the 1/4” out and DI out would be fine. We’ll see.
jacoby75
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I actually thought of that last night, lol. I'm a dum dum. I need to try that later and see if it makes a difference.
Yeah I was going to buy it but the listing states 'ships in non-original white box' so I walked. Glad I avoided that catastrophe.
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You can try but I think when you remove the 3rd wire/pin from the xlr, one its not balanced which can pick up interference, and two cannot use the earth lift, which you have done by xlr>ts, or even trs, the messenger doesn't have a balanced input. I definitly get a little more noise than normal through the headphones, normally I would run balanced out to a interface and then into headphones/amp.
Check and make sure your power source is properly grounded, try plugging everything in (including your pedal power(s)) into the same source, strip, conditioner ect. check with another bass and lastly if you can touch metal components, even strings, and hum goes away its definitely a ground loop on one or more devices. You could try moving around and seeing if that changes it, then it would be rf/emf. But flipping the ground switch in this situation, for me, didnt do anything with this specific wire. I do have everything powered up runnimg to the same power strip, and the only thing on this circuit in my house is this main line, but my house is some kind of bad emf cage, kinda was forced to do that
Buy when in stock.
