Mentaltossflycoon
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This might belng in the troubleshooting thread but that didn't seem right either. I feel like this will be a fairly long post so firstly, my apologies. Also thanks to anyone who reads along and helps me bust my ghosts.
So I've been having some weird troubles when playing at my drummer's place. There's always been extra higher pitched hum from my pedalboard there. Its still present at home but it's barely audible. When I plug straight in either place, no problems. I used to just eq it out when we play over there, it's just practice after all. With the completion of my Nobelium, things have only become more confusing. I've been using pedal pre's into the power amp input of my amps for quite a while now, the aion Sunn/Lab series/Traynor based ones and now I'm trying to transition to the nobelium.
Yesterday in the middle of rehearsal, I started losing signal. It would come back after unplugging/reinserting the patch cable at the nobelium input. Super annoying. After a few slow deaths, I pulled the nobelium and finished out the first half of rehearsal using the Aion ts50. Out of curiosity, during a smoke break, I swapped my newish amp for my old ampeg combo (ba500) and the nobelium, while still noisy, it worked perfectly for rest of rehearsal. Unfortunately other weird stuff happened like my dod fx91 and my prunes n custard were totally castrated. No gain, low output. Fuzzes and N.E.W OD no problem.
When I got home and set my rig back up, I couldn't get the nobelium to die on me through the very rig it was happening to.
Details that seem important. I use a gigrig supply, h.o.g. and tonebone both have appropriate voltage high draw isolators, almost everything else has an isolator before it but a few of my pedals run directly off the "distributor." I'm hoping the ppcb dc isolator in my queue will fix some of this weird behavior. The Nobelium was not plugged in to the gigrig. I only have a single 9v 500 mah adapter so I was using a separate pighog knockoff that provides 9v 800 mah. At home I used an authentic one spot. So between the 5 amps from the gigrig and the 800 mah pighog, I'm not exceeding the limits of my power supply.
Here's my pedalboard as it is tonight. The underside is a little messy as things have been in flux lately. The hog is underneath along with all the gigrig bits, a squishy sheep (in the chain before input 2 on the tonebone) and an OC2 in the tonebone fx loop.
I'll be further refining my power cable lengths and pedal placements in the near future but that also doesn't seem like it would be a signal killing issue.
Chain is as follows: squishy sheep>tonebone(oc2)>meatbox>Dod FX91>creampie>H.O.G.>ezekiel>hogsfoot>prunes&custard>N.E.W. Bass OD>MB gas tank>flyleaf>junk trunk>cordyceps>VIIB>Chuck's electric ladyland flanger>MB polytrog>low tide>filter fx>rubberneck>nobelium>power amp.
@vigilante398 do you have any thoughts on this? Any possible factors I'm missing? The inconsistency makes it difficult to diagnose. Power conditioning???? WTF?
So I've been having some weird troubles when playing at my drummer's place. There's always been extra higher pitched hum from my pedalboard there. Its still present at home but it's barely audible. When I plug straight in either place, no problems. I used to just eq it out when we play over there, it's just practice after all. With the completion of my Nobelium, things have only become more confusing. I've been using pedal pre's into the power amp input of my amps for quite a while now, the aion Sunn/Lab series/Traynor based ones and now I'm trying to transition to the nobelium.
Yesterday in the middle of rehearsal, I started losing signal. It would come back after unplugging/reinserting the patch cable at the nobelium input. Super annoying. After a few slow deaths, I pulled the nobelium and finished out the first half of rehearsal using the Aion ts50. Out of curiosity, during a smoke break, I swapped my newish amp for my old ampeg combo (ba500) and the nobelium, while still noisy, it worked perfectly for rest of rehearsal. Unfortunately other weird stuff happened like my dod fx91 and my prunes n custard were totally castrated. No gain, low output. Fuzzes and N.E.W OD no problem.
When I got home and set my rig back up, I couldn't get the nobelium to die on me through the very rig it was happening to.
Details that seem important. I use a gigrig supply, h.o.g. and tonebone both have appropriate voltage high draw isolators, almost everything else has an isolator before it but a few of my pedals run directly off the "distributor." I'm hoping the ppcb dc isolator in my queue will fix some of this weird behavior. The Nobelium was not plugged in to the gigrig. I only have a single 9v 500 mah adapter so I was using a separate pighog knockoff that provides 9v 800 mah. At home I used an authentic one spot. So between the 5 amps from the gigrig and the 800 mah pighog, I'm not exceeding the limits of my power supply.
Here's my pedalboard as it is tonight. The underside is a little messy as things have been in flux lately. The hog is underneath along with all the gigrig bits, a squishy sheep (in the chain before input 2 on the tonebone) and an OC2 in the tonebone fx loop.
I'll be further refining my power cable lengths and pedal placements in the near future but that also doesn't seem like it would be a signal killing issue.Chain is as follows: squishy sheep>tonebone(oc2)>meatbox>Dod FX91>creampie>H.O.G.>ezekiel>hogsfoot>prunes&custard>N.E.W. Bass OD>MB gas tank>flyleaf>junk trunk>cordyceps>VIIB>Chuck's electric ladyland flanger>MB polytrog>low tide>filter fx>rubberneck>nobelium>power amp.
@vigilante398 do you have any thoughts on this? Any possible factors I'm missing? The inconsistency makes it difficult to diagnose. Power conditioning???? WTF?
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