Re: Vortex revisited

["Ritchie" <facehacker@hotmail.com>]

Hi there,

I've also found with the vortex probably due to the algorithms also is:  if
you set up a loop within the vortex to repeat infinately, after a while the
loop will degrade into a different sound all together and no matter what 
the
original source was, it degrades to a similar sound.  Handy unit to have in
conjunction with a Repeater though.  I love it :-D

Loop on,
Ritchie
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> Hi all,
>
> Seems like every so often the discussion comes up as to whether or not
> the Vortex is a very noisy unit (I know I've been in the "mine is very
> noisy" camp before.)  Anyway, I recently took my studio apart and
> re-wired it back together in an attempt so remove some of the hiss the
> vortex was contributing to the effects loop.  I put the vortex into its
> own send/return so that I could at least control when I added the hiss
> of the vortex, but before I did this I did a test.  Plugging straight in
> to the vortex and listening with headphones from the output on the back
> of the unit, the vortex was very very clean, almost no hiss whatsoever.
> After I got the mixer all wired back up I plugged in through that route
> and what I discovered was that there was a fair amount of hiss in the
> signal again.
>
> After some messing around I discovered the root of the problem I think.
> The vortex seems to have a sort of feedback going on that takes any
> incoming noise (like hum from a pickup or whatnot) and it sends it back
> through the processor and so on until it becomes really audible.  I
> found that when I switched patches, the noise floor would drop down and
> then slowly the hiss would start building up as the effect was on for a
> while.
> >
> Kevin
>
>