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Home › Forums › Help/Technical Questions › Hum Debugger – issues at higher gain
Hi all, first post here.
My parent’s picked up for me while over seas a Hum Debugger unit. I had suggested a few pedals for noise hum solutions and the Hum Debugger was one of them.
Now I’ve tried it out, and whilst it is awesome at wiping a lot of the noise from my amp/pedals/noisy power points, etc, at higher gain (where I normally play) it introduces a nasty filtering type effect that sounds something like the effect used for the Darleks voices on Doctor Who!
With clean and lower gain tones the pedal really is amazing, but I really need it for the higher gain stuff. Is there any way of solving this horrible filtering problem? If I can’t the pedal isn’t really of any use to me, and I’d feel bad getting rid of it as it was a gift from my parents. I’ve tried the pedal at different points in the chain, and I thought my cables were of reasonable quality (i.e. not the cheap nasty ones, decent jacks, etc – maybe better ones would help).
Any ideas people, I would really like to hang on to this pedal if I can solve my issues.
That is the same reason I sold mine the 2nd day I had it! Do you have it in the front or the end of your chain? I would suggest to try moving it or your other pedals around.
Yeah I’ve tried all that, plus FX loop it appears to do nothing but block all sound. I hope there is a solution. If only the pedal came with a dial to adjust the level the effect was running at.
Well I tried the pedal one last time in my effects loop and had far greater success!
Now in the effects loop on the normal setting I notice a cut in the noise from my power point, etc, and my high gain tone seems to stay untouched by the pedal. On the strong setting there is a little less hum, and a little of the funny reverb type sound occurring in my tone, but it is barely noticeable now.
I’ll have to try it again tonight when the load on the electrical circuits in the house are far greater, but I think I might have resolved my problems now.
I think it’s funny that Electro Harmonix recommend the front of the amp for best effect, but I defintely found better results in the loop. YMMV