Taria Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Live I don't use any effects at all, and not much at home either. But I now have a tapping part in a new song of ours, which I have been thinking about cracking out my compressor for. I remember it being extremely noisy though so was thinking about getting something else. However, after trying it just now, it not noisy at all - very quiet in fact - on any of the settings, even with sustain right up its pretty quiet. Was my memory failing me? No. Having added my boss TU-2 tuner into the mix, there is it, that crazy hissing noisy sound - at any setting - that noise is there. So i removed the tuner, and tried linking it with the Big Muff - just the compressor and the big muff - noiseless again. Now I am thinking maybe it is just the tuner...but I swapped out the big muff and tried just the compressor and a cheap behringer delay/reverb (DR400) and the noise is back again, once more at any setting. Can anyone offer any sort of explanation here? I don't know much about these sorts of things but I just cant really figure out why it is silent with the big muff and really noisy connected to those other 2 pedals? In case it matter I am connecting them using Djago power with the daisy chain cable that comes with it. I have tried a variety of patch leads and long leads and no changes to the above situation so nothing to do with them. (Again if it matters, bass is US Peavey Cirrus and amp is GK MB800 through a GK MB212.) Any thoughts / advice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Higgie Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 The Line 6 pedals are notoriously juice hungry as they are all digital. It will be because of the power supply. You might want to try powering it from either it's own supply, or pick up an Isolator Adaptor from Diago (or GigRig Virtual Battery) that will isolate just that output of the daisy chain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taria Posted October 19, 2014 Author Share Posted October 19, 2014 Ahh ok thanks Higgie, I will give a separate power supply a go tomorrow and see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Higgie Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 No worries mate. I have the Echo Park digital delay and it could be really noisy when used with other pedals, isolating it worked for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JapanAxe Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Line 6 pedals do have a reputation for not playing nicely when sharing power with other pedals. So yes, a separate supply is the way to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taria Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 I am glad to hear it is a simple/common problem - didn't realise the Line 6 pedals had such a reputation. Just waiting to finish work to go home and see if a separate power supply will solve the issue. I shall report back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taria Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 works perfectly when the line 6 is indeed powered separately. thanks guys, i was about to replace the compressor altogether so certainly saved me some dollar! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannybuoy Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Same issue affects most digital pedals, well every Zoom/EHX digital pedal I've had anyway, as well as the Sonus Wahoo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheddatom Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 I don't have this problem with my boss digital effects (Slicer and DD-20) on a daisy chain, but then my PSU can do up to 3amps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannybuoy Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 (edited) I don't think it's an issue of stressing the power supply, more that some pedals just leak noise into the shared power supply, and some pedals have better noise filtering than others. Edited October 28, 2014 by dannybuoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheddatom Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Right, OK, so you'd be better off with an "isolated brick" PSU rather than daisy chain? I spoke to an expert* once who told me it'd be less noisy to have all my pedals on one daisy chain *an electronics dude who builds all the custom stuff for Magic Garden studio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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