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johnybgood18
Copper Member
Canada
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 Posted - 03/20/2009 : 19:31:30
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Hi everyone...
first time poster and brand new guitar player (1 1/2 year)!
Here is my problem. My girlfriend got me an Me20 for Christmas which I was very excited to get. The sounds from it are great. I don't know if it's my pedal that is defective but it seems to me that when I play through it, it is very sensitive to all the things I do on my guitar! Ie: I barely touch the strings with my hand and it makes a screeching sound so loud that it's getting on my nerves! When I turn off the pedal, it's back to normal! It only does that when I press the #1 pedal and I select the #4 on the dial or any other presset with lots of distortion.
I have done a reset to factory setting and it still does that. Also, I haven't touched the dials whatsoever after the reset.
Here is my gear: Ibanez RG321MH, Vox AD50VT and the Me20.
Can anyone help me? Is it my pedal that is faulty or my settings?
Thanks in advance!
N.B.: No matter what type of amp I pick, it does it no matter what!
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FunkenGrooven
Silver Member
USA
360 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2009 : 20:34:42
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Hi, well first of all I seem to be having a brain lapse, I can't picture an ME20 I guess it's a multi fx unit? a couple possibilities, First see if there is an input level knob on the back of the unit and make sure it isn't maxed set it somewhere in the middle. If that's not an issue then perhaps the patch that the screeching is happening on has an output level within the patch parameters you may need to dial that down some. Is it a heavy distortion patch? maybe bring the gain level down a bit. If none of that works one other possibility is something that I believe is called harmonic distortion, I have a stacked HB pickup in the neck position of my strat that has this defect. it sounds great on clean stuff and distorted stuff to but when I crank up my amp to stage volume the thing howls like a Banshee my guitar tech said it was the pickup. So try adjusting your volumes till you find the problem if that doesn't work it may be the device. Hope that helps |
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johnybgood18
Copper Member
Canada
6 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2009 : 23:57:52
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Thanks dude for your reply.
First, if it was a pick-up problem, it would normally do it all the time would it not?
Second, the only output control is on the front face of the pedal itself, no hidden output knob anywhere else!!!
So, all is pointing to the device... might have to bring it back to the store! :-/ |
Edited by - johnybgood18 on 03/20/2009 23:58:20 |
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Dr. Bob
Moderator
Australia
6593 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2009 : 01:46:35
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Hi johnybgood18
Welcome to the forum from Australia.
Regards Dr. Bob |
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jaymzHal
Silver Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 03/21/2009 : 13:38:25
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sounds like a feedback problem to me, the high gain patches will make any possible noise unbearable (I have an ME-50 and all the higher gain patches seem to be at 10x the volume of the quieter ones!). if it only happens for the high gain patches, check your positioning relative to the amp, and the wires. I have the same amp as you (and a very good amp too, I might add) and have found that it does feedback if you are too close to it/have cheap cables, so much more than with my fender pro junior.
Resonance is a strange thing, my old amp used to freak out when you played a low f# which just happened to be the right frequency to make a loose component inside it vibrate and short the circuit...shoddy far eastern products! |
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FunkenGrooven
Silver Member
USA
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Posted - 03/21/2009 : 16:54:06
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quote:
Originally posted by johnybgood18
Thanks dude for your reply.
First, if it was a pick-up problem, it would normally do it all the time would it not?
Second, the only output control is on the front face of the pedal itself, no hidden output knob anywhere else!!!
So, all is pointing to the device... might have to bring it back to the store! :-/
As I said in my post my pickup works great on clean or dirty sounds but when I crank up to stage volume the dirty sounds will howl clean is fine so if you don't have the problem on all your dirt patches may just mean the levels are out of wack on the one that IS causing the problem. Of course in the end you may just need to take it back |
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johnybgood18
Copper Member
Canada
6 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2009 : 18:58:06
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Thanks all for your replies!
I had a buddy come over this weekend and when I told him about my problem, he just turned down the output level, cranked up the anmp and gone wast the screeching! I was set to the middle position... and he ended up turning it down to 6!!!
Well, at least, it sounds great now!
Chris |
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Dr. Bob
Moderator
Australia
6593 Posts |
Posted - 03/23/2009 : 13:05:13
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quote:
Originally posted by johnybgood18
Thanks all for your replies!
I had a buddy come over this weekend and when I told him about my problem, he just turned down the output level, cranked up the anmp and gone wast the screeching! I was set to the middle position... and he ended up turning it down to 6!!!
Well, at least, it sounds great now!
Chris
Hi johnybgood18
Nice to hear that you managed to sort it out.
Most Roland-Boss gear has a pot for adjusting the output level,
to match the characteristics of the inputs on the amp.
Regards Dr. Bob |
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