MrGabbo

I tried moving the PAD switch up and down and spraying it with contact cleaner, it seemed to get better but not that much. The studio EQ thing seems like a good idea but I guess I shouldn't just settle with a defective unit if I can find a way to fix it. Yeah, but like I said, I'd rather have a fully functional POD.

The problem is not the volume difference between the guitar, it is the fact that the whenever I switch the input pad on and roll the volume all the way down it makes a weird noise. EMG's are never gonna have the same volume as the pickups on my strat and that's why I tried to use the input pad. noise sample.mp3

I tried, the latest patch was already installed and I did what you just said and the problem didn't go away at all. My pickups are fine and it doesn't go away when I change the guitar, the noise comes from the "PAD" setting itself. It happens on every guitar when Guitar In is set to PAD, and it never happens when Guitar In is set to Normal.

Hello guys, this is my first post on the forum. I've had my POD for about 2 years now, and I noticed something very annoying. Long story short, I have one guitar with EMG active and all my other guitars are passive with a lower output, and my tones are set up for those guitars, so when I use the active one I have to utilize the input pad to balance the gain. When I do this, everything is fine until I roll the volume all the way off on my guitar or use the killswitch, which causes a weird, loud hissing sound that either stops after a second or two or keeps going until I get the volume back up, changing in pitch and intensity. It happens with every guitar I own. Has anyone of you experienced this problem? Did you solve it somehow?

My main guitar for my alternative rock band is a Squier Vintage Modified '70s with Duncan Designed single coil pickups and my main tone is a Plexy Lead 100 Brt with the gain on 64 (Master control on the first dot on the right) and that's already a lot of gain to me for a rhythm tone. It sounds pretty bad at low volume but when I play it loud at home, live or rehearsing my guitar sounds like an actual guitar and not a can full of bees. It also helps with the single coil hum. Might be that I like hitting my guitar HARD but "turn down the gain" is always good advice.