Axylrock Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Hi, i recently bought a musicman cutlass which i love I love but I noticed I am hearing a staticky tone underneath the clean tone. The guitar itself does have an active silent circuit that cuts down noise but also has a buffer circuit as well. I’ve used active pickups before and not had issues. Could it be the buffer in the guitar? At :40 in the attached sound clip (bridge humbucker) you can hear what I’m talking about. Any thoughts? I messed with the impedance on the input setting of the helix and nothing seemed to help. -Arthur test tones mm.mp3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axylrock Posted July 15, 2020 Author Share Posted July 15, 2020 I’ve isolated the problem to be one between the Cutlass and the helix - does anyone know if buffers places before the input of the helix cause this kind of problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HonestOpinion Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 On 7/15/2020 at 1:50 PM, Axylrock said: I’ve isolated the problem to be one between the Cutlass and the helix - does anyone know if buffers places before the input of the helix cause this kind of problem? Have you tried setting the global setting 'Ins/Outs' --> 'Guitar In Pad' = "On"? Does this happen with every patch? Make sure the master on the amp block is relatively high and the drive is low. Try cutting back on the amp's tonestack(treble, mids in particular). Btw, sounded like there was some string buzz against the frets in there as well. Might want to make sure your action and pickup height is set properly. Would also run my tests with the input block's noise gate bypassed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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