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As Vortex is back in the
threads...another Vortex question! I know this has been asked
before, but its quicker to ask again than search the archives... ha ha
sorry!
I noticed the thread about vortex line level etc,
but took no notice of it, till.. last night I took the Vortex OUT of my setup
and suddenly my guitar was alot less susceptible to distortion (bad distortion
that is... not the nice sort )
I know that it has been said that Vortex should be
plugged into sends on a desk, but Ive never liked that solution cos its needs to
treat the whole sound on so many patches that I have to use a pre fade send,
then I lose vol control from my fader, which is annoying...
SO.. I have limited the use of Vortex to my direct
guitar signal and have a stereo feed from guitar effects ( Roland GP16 >>
Space station... if yer interested) TO the Vortex, then out to the mixer. NOW...
Is this wrong? I DO have to set the level on Vortex VERY LOW, for the overload
light NOT to light, and then it still does when I go crazy (not often these
days, I just turned 41and the Robert Fripp in me is taking over the Thurstan
Moore in me) ...I digress..
Its like the Vortex is limiting the dynamic
headroom, if you see what I mean? Could this be due to wrong impedance maybe,
should I open up my Vortex again and add some resisters to the input sockets? (I
guess Mr Grob would know WHAT value resisters)... any ideas?`
BTW, HINT FOR VORTEX USERS:
talking of opening up the Vortex and Mattias G. I
did his EDP>Vortex synch mod thingy, and built it internally in the Vortex, I
disconected the Amp channel socket as I dont use that, so now I have a dedicated
EDP IN socket on the Vortex... and added a switch to the front to switch the
synch on and off... BUT (maybe you already thought of this) I ALSO connected,
while I was at it, the synch to the MORPH switch/socket.. so now I can MORPH in
synch with the EDP... which is great!!! Especially when you think that you can
send different divisions of the beat out, by changing 8th values...on the EDP. A
weird bug of this mod tho, is tho that when I put EDP in 1/2 speed mode, the
morph synch triggers even if I have switched it OFF.. but has worked a charm by
accident... Did a gig where I had a nice patch on A and a horrible (ring mod
thing) patch on B... was just using A, then went to half speed and Bang, guitar
goes to cling clang ring mod stuff, same time as EDP goes slow... sounded
great.. but terrifying!!
Im rambling...
can anyone help with the distortion/impedance question?
Later
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