coreyhchan Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 I'm using an overdrive pedal and tube screamer with the red conpression pedal and a noise gate. But I can't seem to get a very long sustain. I get the distortion sound I want but the distortion tone seems to fade out while the clean tone carries much longer. Any tips? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coreyhchan Posted November 2, 2014 Author Share Posted November 2, 2014 @hurghanico: I did try making that adjustment but it just seemed to bring the volumn up without extending the sustain. But I'll try it again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjnette Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Try a few of the comps with slightly more extreme settings. The ones in the HD act more like sustainers to me than compressors. Tube comp might also help. Also try the Vintage Pre, either before or after or another comp in series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JTSC777 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Raise the action slightly on your guitar.Your strings vibrate in an elliptical fashion towards and away from the fretboard not from side to side as they appear to .That will give you more sustain. Modern players demand super low strings slapping against the fingerboard action.That is not what you want to do for good sustain.My guitars all sustain even when using my HD500 through my FRFR speakers. I am sure some here will disagree with my opinion. Thats okay I have over 40 years of not just pro experience live and in the studio but I am a qualified guitar repair/setup tech as well.Learning to live with slightly higher action is the simplest solution to sustain and intonation problems. That is what I know IMHO. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienux Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 most likely the noise gate cuts too early the signal, try to adjust the threshold I'm glad I read this. I have one patch that I love the sound of, but it always seemed to cut some of my sustained notes short compared to other patches. It didn't occur to me to lower the noise gate on this patch since I have it set similarly on most of my patches, but reducing it did the trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienux Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Raise the action slightly on your guitar.Your strings vibrate in an elliptical fashion towards and away from the fretboard not from side to side as they appear to .That will give you more sustain. Modern players demand super low strings slapping against the fingerboard action.That is not what you want to do for good sustain.My guitars all sustain even when using my HD500 through my FRFR speakers. I am sure some here will disagree with my opinion. Thats okay I have over 40 years of not just pro experience live and in the studio but I am a qualified guitar repair/setup tech as well.Learning to live with slightly higher action is the simplest solution to sustain and intonation problems. That is what I know IMHO. Absolutely. The closer the strings are to the magnets in the pickups, the more the magnets pull on them, keeping them from vibrating as long. I keep my action at about what I would classify as medium (not really high or low). It doesn't negatively affect my playing at all compared to lower action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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