Re: Line 6 crunchy digital yukiness

[Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org>]

>Tim Nelson wrote:
>
>>  I found that using sends I was overloading quite easily and had to
>find the
>>  right 'sweet spot' to get a good level with low noise that wouldn't get
>>  crunchy on me. A hair in either direction can make a big difference.
>>
>>  If you're running straight in, you may want to try a compressor before 
>the
>>  looper, or at least something to attenuate your signal a bit.
>
>Amen on this.  There is only a small region on the DL4 between
>"not enough signal to process" and "distortion".
>
>This is somewhat less of a problem while looping but if you
>use the box as an effects unit you'll run into this all the time.
>
>Dunno why manufacturers don't make a gentle, switchable
>compressor/limiter as the first stage in their effects
>units...

There IS such limiter in the EDP. In the LOOP delay, it was perfect, 
in the EDP not quite, since we had to use emphasis to reduce noise, 
so the limiter is frequency dependent, but Kim adjusted it so it 
works well for a normal musical input signal.

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