Rothwell Love Squeeze slight distortion

[sockdeluxe_mikey]

Hi all,

I've just taken delivery of a Rothwell Love Squeeze - sounds pretty good already esp. on low compression levels, but past about 1/2 way of the compression knob a little bit of distortion starts creeping in (this is especially obvious on the bridge pickup of my Lakland 44-01 that I've been using the Rothwell with) and I think it seems to happen at most volume settings of the compressor's output as well.

I've tried using a 9V power adaptor through it instead which made a very slight difference, as I suspected the battery might be a little flat inside, but not a great deal.

I'm thinking this could possibly be remedied by a trimpot inside the pedal, or a higher 'V' adaptor to give the pedal more headroom (it says that it can take any adaptor between 9-18V)?

Thanks all!

[gnasher1993]

18v should definitely increase the headroom. It may be the case that the output from your bass is too hot. A higher voltage will definitely combat this.

[sockdeluxe_mikey]

I was thinking this precisely - that my bass output might be a litte too much. Tried it with my Epiphone guitar (sounded SO nice!) and I must say that even with that, I've noticed on *really* extreme volume and comp settings it distorts slightly, which are settings I'll get nowhere near to using (am using it ultimately for string-to-string balance) but it's a compressor that's supposed to be ultra flat which leads me to believe it could be wanting more headroom.

Gonna go to my mates later for a jam and he has a KRK monitoring setup, so I'll get rigorous on that to see - I've been trying it only through a little Marshall amp but this slight distortion has been happening at literally all volumes so it's definitely not speaker overexcursion etc!