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Way huge Pork and Pickle
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Yeah I was checking out the user manual for it last night. It has 4 trim pots internally
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I've had the P&P for a few months now and I can't get a decent sound out of it. It's probably the "clipping problem", because E, and to some extent A, is producing a horrible "farting", hard clipping sound. Like a square wave.
However, it's not only the clean blended signal that clips. It's BOTH. And it doesn't help powering the pedal with 18 Volts (yes, I've tried). It actually makes it even more evident, since the added headroom means less distortion from the overdrive circuit. But it clips just as bad, somewhere else.
If I turn off the clean blend and lower the gain of the overdrive to 0, it still clips hard on the bottom heavier tones. I'm sure it's not supposed to do this, but I wonder why.
Not at all afraid of modding, but I have no idea of what to do. Any suggestions? Adding a resistor to ground at the input to lower signal that feeds into the pedal from the bass?
Edit: I wonder if those not having this problem either use basses with very low output, and/or are using a decent amount of gain, so that the overdrive masks the hard clipping. I want to be at the edge of breakup, which is impossible.
I've had the P&P for a few months now and I can't get a decent sound out of it. It's probably the "clipping problem", because E, and to some extent A, is producing a horrible "farting", hard clipping sound. Like a square wave.
However, it's not only the clean blended signal that clips. It's BOTH. And it doesn't help powering the pedal with 18 Volts (yes, I've tried). It actually makes it even more evident, since the added headroom means less distortion from the overdrive circuit. But it clips just as bad, somewhere else.
If I turn off the clean blend and lower the gain of the overdrive to 0, it still clips hard on the bottom heavier tones. I'm sure it's not supposed to do this, but I wonder why.
Not at all afraid of modding, but I have no idea of what to do. Any suggestions? Adding a resistor to ground at the input to lower signal that feeds into the pedal from the bass?
Edit: I wonder if those not having this problem either use basses with very low output, and/or are using a decent amount of gain, so that the overdrive masks the hard clipping. I want to be at the edge of breakup, which is impossible.
18V solved the problem for me, both with low output pickups and my Stingray Special. I also run the pedal with low gain.Bump...
I've had the P&P for a few months now and I can't get a decent sound out of it. It's probably the "clipping problem", because E, and to some extent A, is producing a horrible "farting", hard clipping sound. Like a square wave.
However, it's not only the clean blended signal that clips. It's BOTH. And it doesn't help powering the pedal with 18 Volts (yes, I've tried). It actually makes it even more evident, since the added headroom means less distortion from the overdrive circuit. But it clips just as bad, somewhere else.
If I turn off the clean blend and lower the gain of the overdrive to 0, it still clips hard on the bottom heavier tones. I'm sure it's not supposed to do this, but I wonder why.
Not at all afraid of modding, but I have no idea of what to do. Any suggestions? Adding a resistor to ground at the input to lower signal that feeds into the pedal from the bass?
Edit: I wonder if those not having this problem either use basses with very low output, and/or are using a decent amount of gain, so that the overdrive masks the hard clipping. I want to be at the edge of breakup, which is impossible.
I run mine at 9v, normally Aguilar's hum cancelling PJ pup set, and low gain settings on the pedal has worked well for me. I also run a compressor before it and a two tube preamp after it.
So, does the MIX pot for the OD and Fuzz adjust the saturation level of the distortion circuit or just alter the balance between clean and effect (sort of bias the blend pot one way or the other)?
