Mynameismatt Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Hi guys Any advice (other than turning down my guitar) to avoid my guitar digitally distorting the AD converter in the pod? I have switched the pad and it still sound horrible until the chord i play decays and cleans up. Im running a lux and hi way amp with fairly clean signals and was hoping to use my over drive pedal to drive them a bit more but so far i cant get it to stop distorting digitally. Im playing a strat with standard pickups. When i lower the volume on my guitar and boost the drive on the amps it works fine but when i switch on my pedals it overloads the input again... I will lower my pickups if needs be but it won't fix the external pedals problem... Help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyo78 Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Rather than fish/search for you... There are many past, good threads on this. To get started, "gain staging" and "output setup" is what you want to search for. Get that info, bring us the wicked witch of the west's broomstick and then re-post if needed. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfsmith0 Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Make the HD500 inputs Guitar and Variax. It defaults to Guitar and Same, which makes the signal twice as big. Using Guitar and Variax not only reduces the signal but also reduces noise. Try that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_Watt Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 That's the secret. Disable the second input so that you don't double the input signal and you should not saturate the input circuits. It is too bad that Line6 did not include a Clip Indicator like many other DSP devices have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mynameismatt Posted August 8, 2014 Author Share Posted August 8, 2014 Yes that seems to have fixed it somewhat... madness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radatats Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 put your pedal in the FX loop and adjust the Send/Return levels. That way you are not hitting the input and can make the needed adjustments... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mynameismatt Posted August 9, 2014 Author Share Posted August 9, 2014 I have other pedals in the loop unfortunately Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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