Re: Boomerang Hiss!

[Ronan Chris Murphy <rcm@venetowest.com>]

I have not really used the Boomerang much but was recently producing 
and album for another looper that uses one, and the hiss was so bad 
that we could not use it on the album. I thought the unit must be 
broken but apparently not, if others are having this problem.

The good news is that with the bommmerang's 24 khz sampling rate is is 
not really going to reproduce anything over 11 or 12k (where many 
guitar cabinets cut off) so you can use a low pass filter to get rid of 
a lot of hiss.

Ronan Chris Murphy
www.venetowest.com
www.livesofthesaints.net

On Jan 11, 2005, at 1:34 PM, Leon Droby wrote:

> Do you have a tweeter in your bass cabinet?
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> I have some effect that sound fine through my guitar combo or my bass 
> amp with the tweeter off.  As soon as I turn the tweeter up, the hiss 
> is unacceptable.  And it doesn't really matter how the EQ is set.
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> LeonD
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> On Jan 11, 2005, at 5:44 AM, Jonathan wrote:
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>>    Hey everybody,
>>    I'm doing looping, primarily with a bass guitar, sometimes an 
>> electric guitar, using a Boomerang pedal.  When I do little gigs 
>> through a PA, the hiss usually isn't that bad; it's there, but I can 
>> work around it.  However, when I run through the Boomerang into my 
>> bass rig, there is a LOT of hiss.
>>    I've tried everything I can think of, but I can't find a setting 
>> where the hiss isn't a big problem.  I don't have a "smiley face" EQ 
>> or a lot of trebble, and there's very little compression on my amp.
>>    I'd really like to incorperate looping into my shows with duo's 
>> and trio's, but that noise is just too much coming from a rig with 
>> that much power.  Any suggestions?
>>    Thanks!
>>    -Jonathan
>>    http://www.badspatula.com
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