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Iron Ether Subterranea

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I'm not sure if shameless self-promotion is allowed here, but here's the the SubT through a Phase 90 on my band's new single (replaced Soundcloud-snippet with official video of full song)! Don't know for sure, but maybe it's the first use of a SubT on an "official" recording (which noone's gonna buy anyways) :)

 
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Well, she arrived. Some noise/ bleed on the octave particularly when using the octave filter. No matter. This pedal is fantastic. Very happy!! :-)
 
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I got a SubT in the post a couple of days ago and I've got a question if anyone can help:

I've noticed that it seems to have a very sensitive input, by which I mean it starts producing sound in response to - for example - very light string noise. If I touch the strings lightly with my right hand the SubT makes a gritty-sounding noise which seems to be disproportionately loud. It's not crazy loud, but it doesn't seem very reasonable given how quiet the input was.

I'm guessing the input is very sensitive because that helps the tracking, but is there any way to make it chill out a bit?

It's got some great sounds though, I particularly like the octave voice with just a little Uni saw mixed in to brighten it up. Great box. :)
 
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kevteop said:
I got a SubT in the post a couple of days ago and I've got a question if anyone can help:

I've noticed that it seems to have a very sensitive input, by which I mean it starts producing sound in response to - for example - very light string noise. If I touch the strings lightly with my right hand the SubT makes a gritty-sounding noise which seems to be disproportionately loud. It's not crazy loud, but it doesn't seem very reasonable given how quiet the input was.

I'm guessing the input is very sensitive because that helps the tracking, but is there any way to make it chill out a bit?

It's got some great sounds though, I particularly like the octave voice with just a little Uni saw mixed in to brighten it up. Great box. :)
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I found that I like SubT the most with a gated fuzz in front of it (I use Unpleasant Surprise). It removes problem with sensitivity and sounds huge.
 
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kevteop said:
I got a SubT in the post a couple of days ago and I've got a question if anyone can help:

I've noticed that it seems to have a very sensitive input, by which I mean it starts producing sound in response to - for example - very light string noise. If I touch the strings lightly with my right hand the SubT makes a gritty-sounding noise which seems to be disproportionately loud. It's not crazy loud, but it doesn't seem very reasonable given how quiet the input was.

I'm guessing the input is very sensitive because that helps the tracking, but is there any way to make it chill out a bit?

It's got some great sounds though, I particularly like the octave voice with just a little Uni saw mixed in to brighten it up. Great box. :)
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I think lots of people recommended using a compressor in front of it
 
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kevteop said:
I got a SubT in the post a couple of days ago and I've got a question if anyone can help:

I've noticed that it seems to have a very sensitive input, by which I mean it starts producing sound in response to - for example - very light string noise. If I touch the strings lightly with my right hand the SubT makes a gritty-sounding noise which seems to be disproportionately loud. It's not crazy loud, but it doesn't seem very reasonable given how quiet the input was.

I'm guessing the input is very sensitive because that helps the tracking, but is there any way to make it chill out a bit?

It's got some great sounds though, I particularly like the octave voice with just a little Uni saw mixed in to brighten it up. Great box. :)
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I've noticed the pulse wave setting on the synth channels is very sensitive to even string noise and will produce a static-like sound unless super extra care is paid to muting strings. Not sure if that's what you're experiencing. I don't have that issue on the other wave settings (I use a passive bass boosted a bit through compression).
 
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Ricky Caboverde said:
Wouldn't this further exacerbate the issue the OP is having? o_O
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honestly, I actually have no clue. I never understood much to compressors, except that I never liked using one :D but a lot of people said to use one to improve tracking, so I assumed it might help for this issue as well - sorry if I said something stoopid!
 
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kevteop said:
Yes it is a sort of static noise although in my case I've got the Uni set to saw and the volume off on the Octo so I must have slightly different symptoms to you.

I am also using a passive bass - a Jazz wired in series.
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Is the output of your bass exceptionally high or are you boosting the signal at all into the pedal? There is an obvious amount of internal gating in most analog octave pedals that puts most of these noises under the threshold, but if your bass has a ton of output it might let everything through. Since the dynamics of the synth voices are pretty compressed vs a bass, anything that does pass the threshold will come out fairly loud in comparison.
My SubT doesn't really have this issue unless I put a really hot signal into it, but I had an MXR Bass Octave Deluxe that did it with every bass, so it could just be a bad component...
 

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