Roadster Clean volume question

[VforVendetta00]

Hi, i was wondering if its normal for the volume of the clean on the roadster to be soooooo low compared to chan 3-4. i have to pretty much max the clean and keep the 3-4chan at around 10 o'clock for them to be even.

also i notice that the clean channel overdrives waaaaay too easy, i got the roadster because its supposed to have a cleaner clean channel than a triple (what i had before) could this mean i have a bad one? any help is appreciated thanks!

 

[KH Guitar Freak]

Hi, i was wondering if its normal for the volume of the clean on the roadster to be soooooo low compared to chan 3-4. i have to pretty much max the clean and keep the 3-4chan at around 10 o'clock for them to be even.

also i notice that the clean channel overdrives waaaaay too easy, i got the roadster because its supposed to have a cleaner clean channel than a triple (what i had before) could this mean i have a bad one? any help is appreciated thanks!

Some people seem to have that volume issue with their amp. I don't, or it seems I don't anyway...

As for overdriven tones, I personally thought it stayed very clean in the clean mode, assuming you don't turn up the gain, and also run it in 100W mode, diode tracking, and bold power for maximum headroom...

 

[jdurso]

Hi, i was wondering if its normal for the volume of the clean on the roadster to be soooooo low compared to chan 3-4. i have to pretty much max the clean and keep the 3-4chan at around 10 o'clock for them to be even.

also i notice that the clean channel overdrives waaaaay too easy, i got the roadster because its supposed to have a cleaner clean channel than a triple (what i had before) could this mean i have a bad one? any help is appreciated thanks!

why do you keep the clean maxed? are you hard bypassing the loop?

if you're not just set your clean volume where it sounds good, adjust the dirty volumes to where they match and use the output as your global volume

 

[VforVendetta00]

nope, not bypassing the loop, and i crank the clean volume because the distortion channels sound better with the volume past 10 o'clock and i need the clean to match in volume but even then its not as loud. very annoying, i'm now using the processor in the loop to manage the volumes and i'm getting better results but i dont think i should have to do that.

 

[echoes420]

I like to recommend this quite frequently but...

If you are having trouble keeping cleans clean, I suggest lowering your pickups on your guitar. In this high gain world, most modern guitar pickups are very hot... lowering them will slightly decrease the output of the guitar, so you aren't slamming the front end with a such a hot signal. This doesn't really effect the distorted tone too much. A bit of compensation on the volume of your dirty channels will pretty much nullify what you did to the guitar in a tone sense.

 

[Melodyman]

nope, not bypassing the loop, and i crank the clean volume because the distortion channels sound better with the volume past 10 o'clock and i need the clean to match in volume but even then its not as loud. very annoying, i'm now using the processor in the loop to manage the volumes and i'm getting better results but i dont think i should have to do that.

If you need to crank your distortion channel volumes past 10:00 you'll never get them to balance with the clean imo (unless the clean is set dirtier with higher gain/mode setting).

The Roadster isn't the only amp that behaves this way either in my experience.

Every Rectifier I've owned and even my old Mark IV I had to have the clean channel set louder to some degree. Some other well known amps as well I've had/have.

 

[Mark Fore]

Just out of curiosity, what pickups are you using primarily? I was going insane a while back with my Roadster with this same "issue" and I realized that my pickups are pretty hot, or at least breaking up earlier than I would have liked for my clean tone. Gain in, gain out...