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Gain staging question (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 8 months ago by PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works to c/guitarpedals@lemmy.world
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So I have a weird thing going on with my pedal board. First, my signal chain - Guitar into Bogner Harlow (light compression, always on) -> 4 channel switcher -> TC Mimiq (splits signal)

SW Ch 1 - TC Nether sub octaver SW Ch 2 - DOD Carcosa fuzz SW Ch 3 -Digitech Bad Monkey SW Ch 4 - Joyo Ultimate Drive (OCD clone)

Mimiq L out -> modded Jet City 22w head -> passive attenuator -> old Laney 2x12” cab (dark as all hell, sounds awesome)

Mimiq R out -> reverb/delay/trem -> Laney Cub 10” 15w input (hemp cone, different valves, again sounds awesome, cleans up well)

I’ve spent a while balancing everything, getting the gains to all play nicely, except… the Ultimate Drive for some reason is really quiet through the Jet City. The Carcosa fuzz sounds brutal through both amps, but really drives the Jet City hard. I switch to the UD, and the volume of the Laney stays pretty high, but the Jet City shuts right up. I’ve fiddled every way I can think of, to no avail. The UD is a loud pedal, with huge amounts of volume and gain on tap, but it’s just not doing much for the JC amp. Any ideas?

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[-] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

I’ll chuck an SD1 in and see what happens. It’s the fact it behaves as expected in one amp but not the other that throws me, while everything else does what it should, and the split is outside of the switcher. Like the fuzz, which is definitely fussier, does exactly what it should.

The switcher is a bit odd - it’s a Hotone Cybery. It’s a weird little 4-channel thing, only made for a bit, but you can chain a couple of them together to have 8 channels controlled from a relatively small switcher. It’s Bluetooth too, so you can set it all up without grovelling around on the floor.

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