jmeulman Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 I've been using my HD500 with the 4 cable method to my Peavey 6505+ with Orange 4x12 and whilst I think I understand most of it to a degree and I'm finding being able to put an OD before my amp and a delay and reverb in the loop awesome I'm having some major issues trying to get rid of feedback/hum. 1)The feedback is a high squeal happening in the silence between notes and is almost instantaneous when I palm mute/stacatto quickly (djenty post-hardcore kinda band so happens a lot) 2)The hum is present in the effects loop and is to do with the amp itself (I think the 6505+ is notorious for it) but is pretty ridiculously loud, dissapears when I change to the clean channel My cabling is all correct I believe: Guitar > Guitar In (HD500) > FX Send > Amp Input > Amp Effects Loop Send > FX Return Left (HD500) > Unbal Output L/Mono (HD500) > Amp Effects Loop Return I have the line/stomp switch set to stomp and the line/amp switch set to amp (have a feeling that's wrong). On the Input/Output settings I have it set to stack Power Amp My effects chain on the HD500 is as follows: Noise Gate (Thresh 40 Dec 0) > Screamer (Gain 0-7, Bass 50, Treb 50, Tone 75, Output 100%) > Noise Gate (Thresh 40 Dec 0) > Mixer (channel A is centred Channel B is Muted) > FX Loop (Have increased the return db to roughly 4db I think) > Noise Gate (Thresh 50 Dec 0) > Digital Delay > Cave Reverb My 6505+ Amp Settings (for the distortion channel): Bass 5, Mid 6, Treb 6, Pre-amp 6.5 > Post 2.5 In regards to problem #1 I can fix it by increasing the threshold on the two gates I use but I start to lose volume and a fair bit of tone as well, I was thinking possibly a hard gate might help things but I couldn't really figure out how to get it to work... :s Is there a different positioning of gates that might help me or combination of gates/settings that could help with this? In regards to problem #2 If I put the threshold of the gate in the effects loop to 70% the hum is down to a level that I'm happy with but I lose so much tone and volume it's not really sustainable, again I tried to use the hard gate for this but could not really get it to do anything (any recommendations?) If any of my settings/positioning of pedals in the chain is incorrect please let me know or if you have any tips on how to solve these problems that would be awesome! Thanks :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmeulman Posted November 24, 2013 Author Share Posted November 24, 2013 Anyone got some advice for me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rootmusic Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 I find the fx loop too strong, so I use -20 on send and +20 on return to balance things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enriki Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Hi, I have similar problem with exactly same rig. Did you found solution to resolve the problem? Does this fx loop send / return -20 / +20 really helps for hum removal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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