Signal Chain Leveling (Triaxis, 2:90, FX)

[Hopsing]

I appologize if this has been posted somewhere...just having trouble finding it.

I'm an old guitar player. But I have not played for about 8 years. Recently in the past year or so I have finally finished purchasing my 'dream' rig.

Essentially its...

Triaxis
2:90
TC Electronics M1 XL
TC Electronics D2
Rocktron Hush Super C

The help I'm looking for at the moment is balancing the basic levels through the device chain. It seems like the Triaxis can put out mass amounts of volume. The 2:90 does put out mass amounts of volume. Where I'm having issues is in the TC gear.

If I run the Triaxis with the volume knobs at say 3-5 I get some really good tone and distortion levels. Sounds I would expect from it. My input level is typically about 5-7 or 8 with channel gains at the same sorts of levels. Master is never above 6 as I learned about the op amp. Now if I turn up the inputs on my TCs to get a decent signal level, the levels at the power amp are really loud. So the 2:90s volumes are really low to accomodate. If I start backwards, and get the 2:90 at a moderate level, then adjust the Triaxis, then the FX seem to be lacking input signal. The TC units have some output gain levels...but i dont really want a piece in the chain to throttle/govern the rest of the gear.

Sooo any suggestions and basic setup ideas?

Thanks for your time....sorry if this has been discussed else where.

Hops

 

[ylo]

Are you using the effects in the effects loop? IF so, start with the effects set for unity gain. If you have input and output levels on the effects, adjust the inputs as loud as possible without clipping to minimize the contribution of noise from the effects, then readjust the outputs so you once again have unity gain for each piece.

Don't know whether this will solve your problem, but this is where I would start.