thebigcheese
"Hi, I'm in Delaware."
My pedal setup contained all of the following until recently:
Vox V847 wah (modded for true bypass)
Digitech Whammy
BYOC Overdrive 2 (essentially a tube screamer)
BYOC Large Beaver (essentially a Big Muff)
BYOC Tremolo
Digitech DD7 digital delay
Rocktron Banshee
I picked up a new amp recently, a Vox Night Train (which I love), and now that I am using the amp's gain for distortion instead of pedals, I started to notice that there was a lot of hiss coming from my pedal setup. All of the BYOC pedals are true bypass, so at least in theory there shouldn't be any hiss coming from those. So I did a little experimenting and discovered, much to my dismay, that the Whammy and the DD7 are really contributing the most to the hiss level (I don't have the Banshee on the board anymore, so I'm not sure about that one). There are plenty of other delays and harmonizers on the market, so it's not a big deal, but it's hard to really tell how much noise a pedal is going to contribute when you're just playing with them at GC where everything is connected at once... So what I want to know is what your experience is with various delay and harmonizer pedals, both bypassed and on. For instance, the DD7 contributes hiss when bypassed, then it contributes even more when I turn it on, so ideally, I wouldn't have hiss in either instance. True bypass would be ideal; I think it's a fairly simple matter to mod the EHX pedals for true bypass, but I'd still like to know about the noise level when they are active.
Vox V847 wah (modded for true bypass)
Digitech Whammy
BYOC Overdrive 2 (essentially a tube screamer)
BYOC Large Beaver (essentially a Big Muff)
BYOC Tremolo
Digitech DD7 digital delay
Rocktron Banshee
I picked up a new amp recently, a Vox Night Train (which I love), and now that I am using the amp's gain for distortion instead of pedals, I started to notice that there was a lot of hiss coming from my pedal setup. All of the BYOC pedals are true bypass, so at least in theory there shouldn't be any hiss coming from those. So I did a little experimenting and discovered, much to my dismay, that the Whammy and the DD7 are really contributing the most to the hiss level (I don't have the Banshee on the board anymore, so I'm not sure about that one). There are plenty of other delays and harmonizers on the market, so it's not a big deal, but it's hard to really tell how much noise a pedal is going to contribute when you're just playing with them at GC where everything is connected at once... So what I want to know is what your experience is with various delay and harmonizer pedals, both bypassed and on. For instance, the DD7 contributes hiss when bypassed, then it contributes even more when I turn it on, so ideally, I wouldn't have hiss in either instance. True bypass would be ideal; I think it's a fairly simple matter to mod the EHX pedals for true bypass, but I'd still like to know about the noise level when they are active.