So most of you guys here are a lot smarter than I am about some technical amp issues. I'm hoping someone here can lend me some assistance.
Currently, I run a Mesa 50 Solo Rectifier. I have a G Major and Korg Rackmount Tuner running through the effects loop. The Mesa has a saturation dial on the back that essentially blends how much of the effect loop you want mixed into the output. Between 10-100%. This dial runs in parallel. I typically have this dial turned all the way to 100%
My situation is that a certain amount of "dry" signal bleeds through and out of my amp. For instance, I have a tuning channel that is supposed to reduce my output 100 db. You can still hear an audible signal. I have a tremolo channel that I have set to a hard cut, a la "How Soon is Now" by the Smiths. At low volumes, you hear it a wavy because the dry signal is still present. When I run a pitch shifter for whammy effects, you hear the original guitar tone in addition to the pitch shifted second voice.
I was wondering if this was caused by some global setting in the G Major that I wasn't getting. I then disengaged it from my rack and just ran the tuner through the effects loop. The Korg Tuner has a mute switch on it. When you hit the mute switch, it almost mutes it, but you still get some signal bleeding through into the amp.
I'm thinking that Mesa's 100% is not actually 100% pure saturation, but more like 90%, or that something in the parallel routing is causing this to happen. I've been reading a little on-line about people modding this loop to make it serial, which is fairly simple electronically from what I understand. But before I start delving into this, am I on the right path here? Does my problem make any sense - it's kind of difficult to articulate. Does anybody have any experience with this?
Cheers,
Neil
Currently, I run a Mesa 50 Solo Rectifier. I have a G Major and Korg Rackmount Tuner running through the effects loop. The Mesa has a saturation dial on the back that essentially blends how much of the effect loop you want mixed into the output. Between 10-100%. This dial runs in parallel. I typically have this dial turned all the way to 100%
My situation is that a certain amount of "dry" signal bleeds through and out of my amp. For instance, I have a tuning channel that is supposed to reduce my output 100 db. You can still hear an audible signal. I have a tremolo channel that I have set to a hard cut, a la "How Soon is Now" by the Smiths. At low volumes, you hear it a wavy because the dry signal is still present. When I run a pitch shifter for whammy effects, you hear the original guitar tone in addition to the pitch shifted second voice.
I was wondering if this was caused by some global setting in the G Major that I wasn't getting. I then disengaged it from my rack and just ran the tuner through the effects loop. The Korg Tuner has a mute switch on it. When you hit the mute switch, it almost mutes it, but you still get some signal bleeding through into the amp.
I'm thinking that Mesa's 100% is not actually 100% pure saturation, but more like 90%, or that something in the parallel routing is causing this to happen. I've been reading a little on-line about people modding this loop to make it serial, which is fairly simple electronically from what I understand. But before I start delving into this, am I on the right path here? Does my problem make any sense - it's kind of difficult to articulate. Does anybody have any experience with this?
Cheers,
Neil
