KompoTex Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 HI All I have been using my VX for couple of weeks and suddenly it started behaving strange. I have it mainly for guitar, connected either to my mac, or iPhone. In bot cases syndrome is the same. When I hit the string it is initially silent for a while and then when signal gets lower I start hearing it. When I hit the string very light I can hear it immediately. The same is when I set volume on guitar low to 1-2. Looks like reverted gate which kills everything which has strong signal and passes through low... Is it a bug or feature and I simply do something wrong? Cheers, K. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverhead Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Check the input switch on the VX. Make sure it is set to guitar, disabling the mic. It's possible that the mic is active and the mic gain level/dial is set very high. This could overload the mic input circuitry and might cause the device to shutdown for self-protection until the input level decreases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KompoTex Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 Hi Silverhead - thanks for reply. Input is set to guitar - double checked ;) Any other ideas? K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwheat Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 I am having the exact same problem: When I hit the string, it is initially silent for a second or two and then when the guitar signal input gets lower I start hearing it. I double checked that my SonicPort input switch is set to guitar as well. Please help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwheat Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Kompo Tex, Did you ever figure this out? I have a gig on Sunday so was hoping we would hear back from Line 6 on this issue sooner rather than later. Thanks, Brian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KompoTex Posted February 16, 2016 Author Share Posted February 16, 2016 Hi bwheat - no I didn't. I'm going to send it to distributor for RMA... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwheat Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 KompoTex, thanks for the update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jline6forsyth Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 Did anyone solve this? Same problem here. Had this thing for a couple weeks, barely have a total of 2 hours mileage on it and it started doing this. I hope there's a good explanation. Otherwise... what a piece of junk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobornator Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 I'm having the exact same issue can someone of the moderators or experts help us out? since many of us rely on this interface Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgarant Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 Same here... It used to work ok but since yesterday, it does that same clipping/fading in problem. Any clue ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodWGordon Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 I'm having a similar issue with the guitar.is there something I should run it through first before the SonicVX? Or through the head to SonicVX then to speaker? It seems like the signal is coming in hot and it's clipping... putting the volume up on my ipod touch fixed some of the sensitivity issue described in the above posts,but still experiencing it a little still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodWGordon Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 I put the volume up all the way on my iOS device and it mostly sloved the sensitivity issue but still having the clipping issue, I turned my guitar down to 7 or 6 and it helped a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfcbass Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 My Sonic Port VX is working well the past two years, now I am having this same clapping issue, no matter it's connected to the iPad Air or my Mac mini, in any app. It seems no one has got this issue solved, this is annoying. Hopefully Line6 will get the message here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfreeborg Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Same issue ipad pro ios 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antoniovita01 Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 My sonic port had been working well for two years but now I have the same problem. I was able to just mitigate the issue using ToneStack go App on my iPad: in Audio preferences, I decreased the audio input level of 30 dB. It's better but it's still clipping. Here you a rec example. please advise test_sonicport.mp3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiwire Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Same issue here. I plugged into my PC, and both the mic functions work fine but when you switch to guitar mode and plug a guitar in it can't handle any guitar's pickups. You need to put the guitar's volume to almost zero, which makes the guitar sound really thin and bad, and that's just not right. Put the volume up to a reasonable level on a guitar and there is silence when you strum, then the audio creeps back as if there was some kind of noise gate stopping it. I have attached a file of me strumming and then you hear what the SonicPort VX is doing to the signal. Same guitar and cable direct to the amp or to any other interface, and you get no issue whatsoever. Would love to know if there is a fix or whether any SonicPort VX with this issue is now an expensive paperweight. It is a shame that nobody has had a definitive answer despite many having had the same problem now. Hope somebody out there has the solution :) Thanks for reading. 200427_0224.mp3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnashby Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Hi all, I realise this topic is a bit old now but I have just had this issue with a 2nd hand sonic port vx that I bought - it worked fine to begin with but then I had the input compression issue you’ve described. I managed to get mine working again by plugging the lead guitar in through the aux in with a stereo 3.5mm to 2 x mono 1/4 inch jack Y lead with the plan being to use this input instead of the guitar input if it solved the issue. After plugging it in this way the guitar input started functioning as normal again. Unfortunately I can’t replicate the issue now to see if the fix works a second time but hopefully it may help someone else (if you haven’t all already binned your expensive paper weights!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph5634 Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 Exactly what I needed! You just saved me several hours. Thanks! NJMCDirect Ticket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burningyen Posted November 25, 2024 Share Posted November 25, 2024 On 5/23/2022 at 4:11 AM, dnashby said: Hi all, I realise this topic is a bit old now but I have just had this issue with a 2nd hand sonic port vx that I bought - it worked fine to begin with but then I had the input compression issue you’ve described. I managed to get mine working again by plugging the lead guitar in through the aux in with a stereo 3.5mm to 2 x mono 1/4 inch jack Y lead with the plan being to use this input instead of the guitar input if it solved the issue. After plugging it in this way the guitar input started functioning as normal again. Unfortunately I can’t replicate the issue now to see if the fix works a second time but hopefully it may help someone else (if you haven’t all already binned your expensive paper weights!) I've been having the same input signal gating/compression issue with the guitar input of my Sonic Port (not the VX version). Thanks for the idea of running the guitar into the 1/8" aux in. That at least works, using one of the 1/4" ends of a dual mono 1/4"-to-1/8" stereo Y cable or using a headphone cable with 1/4" and 1/8" ends. But sadly I've not experienced the guitar input resuming normal function after doing this. If anyone else managed to get the guitar input working normally again on a regular Sonic Port? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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