Noise when putting pedals in front of 3 channel DR?

[sleepingtiger]

Anyone else have this issue or have a solution? The other guitarist I play with is having a noise issue when putting ANY pedal in front of his DR. We've tried different cords, pedals, in short, all substitutions, with no success. With just a cord it's dead quiet, but with any pedal or combination, we get a good amount of noise. We ARE going try cleaning all connectors with a good cleaner, but again, we've tried just about all combinations...
Any solutions or suggestions are most welcome & appreciated!

Thanks,
Tony

 

[Chris McKinley]

Without knowing what your threshold is for acceptable noise, I'd suggest the obvious solution of a noise gate. It's also important to know what kind of effects you are putting in front of the amp. Any modulation, delay or reverb effects don't belong there in the first place, and will understandably prove far noisier in front of an amp than in the loop where they belong. Perhaps you could let us know?

 

[fishyfishfish]

High Gain amps tend to enhance any noise that a pedal will produce. Does it make any noise on the clean channel?

 

[Blackface tweed]

be sure that your PSU is noiseless, don't use daisy chais, get dedicated psu for each pedal, or use something like Powerbrick.

 

[sleepingtiger]

No matter what pedal, it was prety noisey. All time-based effects are in the loop.

 

[fishyfishfish]

Is your gain maxed or close to maxed out? What are the exact pedals?

 

[Chris McKinley]

Yeah, sleepingtiger....until we get some specifics from you, there's not much point in discussing it, since we've already covered the general terms and that doesn't seem to be your problem. Gotta give us the pedals, amp settings, etc.

 

[sleepingtiger]

Sorry, but it's not MY amp...it's my friend's. I guess I wasn't clear about that. He said that it doesn't seem to matter what pedal he puts there, or how many...or what guitar he uses either. We're gonna try batteries in the pedal(s) in front to see if it's his power supply.
FWIW, my rig with RKII is sounding great,hehe!

Tony

 

[mightypudge]

Noisy pedals? Ground loop in the power chain is usually the culprit.

One thing I learned when using 9-volt power supplies is to look for isolated (class 2) supplies. Non-isolated tend to create noise in certain setups. Also if you have pedals both in front of your amp and in the effects loop they should not share power.

 

[pjrake]

try a noise gate at the end of the pedal chain.

-PJ

 

[primerib]

Noisy pedals? Ground loop in the power chain is usually the culprit.

One thing I learned when using 9-volt power supplies is to look for isolated (class 2) supplies. Non-isolated tend to create noise in certain setups. Also if you have pedals both in front of your amp and in the effects loop they should not share power.

+1

Grounding is a strong possibility. Even the power to the amp should be under suspicion *hint*

 

[Chris McKinley]

If it's making unacceptably high levels of noise no matter what's in front of it, you might check what other electrical devices and/or power strips that may be near it. All electrical devices have electromagnetic fields, and sometimes they can interfere with audio equipment causing hum, white noise, etc.

 

[psmile87]

It's probably noisy pedals, or could be a bad patch cable...you could get a NS-2 and put the pedals in the loop of that