Hi all,
I'm looking to put an ISP Deci-mate pedal at the front of my peddle board chain.
This is in view of reducing background noise picked up through the pups (I'm lucky to have a gaggle of basses, most have single coil jazz pups which I prefer to set at off center towards the bridge pup).
I can pick up quite a bit of hiss when close to bad energy supplies (my Apple copy pwr charger for one), especially from the MEC active pups in my active Warwicks.
I was thinking about putting the deci-mate after the bass in order to cut some db's & some of the hiss.
The deci-mate would go into a gigrig qtm 4 switcher (which feeds tuner, octave, fuzz, envelope filter on seperate switches), then an Empress compressor, then a Darkglass B7k Ultra.
From the B7k I run an amp out & a di out, the di out has a ground lift option so ground loops are cancelled out at that point.
The board is powered from a Rockboard rechargeable battery, when gigging this is running off its own charge & is not connected to the mains pwr so assume I am avoiding any ground loop issues here (however, from the batteries 2 outputs I do daisy chain 8 powered units).
The gigrig QTM switchers are fantastic, (I have another home use "silly" pedal board with lots of pedals on running through a qtm & the difference is immense in sound quality).
I'm not sure what's inside of them (I know they're buffered) but they go a very long way to giving a higher grade quality of sound.
I know I'm being a bit overly critical about hum & hiss but just wondering what anyone's thoughts, comments are on using a noise gate to cancel pickup noise ?
Many thanks, keep on Bassing ;-) !
I'm looking to put an ISP Deci-mate pedal at the front of my peddle board chain.
This is in view of reducing background noise picked up through the pups (I'm lucky to have a gaggle of basses, most have single coil jazz pups which I prefer to set at off center towards the bridge pup).
I can pick up quite a bit of hiss when close to bad energy supplies (my Apple copy pwr charger for one), especially from the MEC active pups in my active Warwicks.
I was thinking about putting the deci-mate after the bass in order to cut some db's & some of the hiss.
The deci-mate would go into a gigrig qtm 4 switcher (which feeds tuner, octave, fuzz, envelope filter on seperate switches), then an Empress compressor, then a Darkglass B7k Ultra.
From the B7k I run an amp out & a di out, the di out has a ground lift option so ground loops are cancelled out at that point.
The board is powered from a Rockboard rechargeable battery, when gigging this is running off its own charge & is not connected to the mains pwr so assume I am avoiding any ground loop issues here (however, from the batteries 2 outputs I do daisy chain 8 powered units).
The gigrig QTM switchers are fantastic, (I have another home use "silly" pedal board with lots of pedals on running through a qtm & the difference is immense in sound quality).
I'm not sure what's inside of them (I know they're buffered) but they go a very long way to giving a higher grade quality of sound.
I know I'm being a bit overly critical about hum & hiss but just wondering what anyone's thoughts, comments are on using a noise gate to cancel pickup noise ?
Many thanks, keep on Bassing ;-) !
