Low Tide - hiss

[slowpogo]

I finished my Low Tide build and it worked straight away. But there is some fairly loud hiss. Not constant, but coming and going with the wobble. The BIAS trim doesn't have much effect on the hiss.

The Shallow Water does not seem to hiss like this from the demos I've watched.

any ideas ?

 

[Leftovernoise]

I believe what we're hearing is BBD noise when the random LFO transitions towards the longest delay times.

If you're having a constant noise (or if it's to the point of being troublesome) you might need to look into what is causing that (possibly BBD bias adjustment). I haven't experienced this on any of the three I have here (original + two Low Tide builds), but a faint distortion that happens occasionally seems to just be a characteristic of the circuit.

The circuit is by no means a "hissmonster", overall it's relatively silent.

Yeah as far as just noise from the pedal when not playing thing is damn near silent. Probably one of my least noisy pedals

 

[slowpogo]

Yeah as far as just noise from the pedal when not playing thing is damn near silent. Probably one of my least noisy pedals

That's where I'm stumped. The hiss behavior when I AM playing is kind of like what you all are describing. But the hiss keeps coming/going randomly even when I'm not playing.