I love my Mistress, but lately I’ve been noticing some weird behavior. Along the sweep towards the highest point of it, it makes this kind of distorted “clipping” type noise. I don’t know if the pedal is malfunctioning, or my amp is just being pushed real hard. I can try and make a clip of it later tonight if anyone is interested in diagnosing this problem.
hmmm could be a number of things-
you could be clipping the input- maybe put your pickups down a bit?
or maybe it could be another pedal in the chain that’s hurting your headroom
cruddy cables
or your amp
I have a problem like this somewhere in my FX chain that i haven’t quite managed to put my finger on, but every time i dig in hard with a bridge humbucker in use, something clips within my pedals.
Lowering the pickups on the guitars causing these problems was my solution, athough i’m not sure whether that was just a workaround that could’ve been resolved in a better way..
A side note: For effects powered by batteries a dying battery will make pedals clip. I had this problem once and I went through every modulation pedal to find it, it was my small clone running on 6 volts. It sounds like a light OD or a non true bypass pedal.
I have the same issue. I have a Prs se to a crate tube amp and it makes the same high-pitch clipping sound. Even when I took all my other effects out of the loop it still made that sound. You find a solution yet?
