c7sus said:You actually play guitar???
Who knew???
Oh shit...I forgot...it's supposed to be a secret.c7sus said:No. Monty!
This is not possible as I ALWAYS connect it to a ground source.c7sus said:You may also be getting interference from your aluminum foil hat.
Maybe I'll put the stock pick-up back in it. I definitely like the clean sound of the stock pick-up better.boingoman said:I don't like the sound of hot rails. Too, I don't know.....generic, kind of. And gobs of output, which may be overdriving the input of your Pod at full volume.
Yes, backing off the guitar volume does change the gain structure and hence the tone especially the amount of distortion. If you're playing into a tube amp at the sweet spot or a well-designed overdrive pedal it will affect the amount of distortion. Back off for clean, increase for dirt. Any change in an analog gain path will affect the tone. For a clean tone on a humbucker I don't want the volume on 10. In a digital preamp like a POD, the final output stage or programming the volume pedal for output instead of input will have the least affect on tone, in my experience. A volume pedal in the effects loop of a tube amp would affect preamp gain if the loop is before the preamp or power amp gain if it is after the preamp. There's not a simple answer, since there are actually many combinations that will produce different types of tones. Once I'm set up, I use my guitar volume control, since usually when I want more volume I'm looking for a little more overdrive as well. It is very much a matter of preference.foo said:I always use the volume knob wide open (except in one not very often used case). The reason is that you cut the amount of signal the amp (or wah or whatever you have before the input) has to work with - this significantly changes your tone, and the amount of distortion, compression, delay, chorus or whatever else you may be using.
I've found it works best (for me, anyway) to use a volume pedal in the fx loop and don't touch the guitar volumes at all.
The one case where I back off the volume control is when playing a 'jazzy' type sound - back of the vol on the bass pickup to about 6 and use the amp to give me the volume I want. It givews you a nice 'joe Pass' kind of warmth.