Anyone Else Hearing a Fuzzy Phasing Thing in EXP with High Gain Patches?

[stvnscott]

Browntown is a good example. I'm hearing some weird fuzzy phasing when I crank up the gain. I had never heard that before installing the expansion pack.

Anyone else hearing it?

[Benoni]

Thats how its always worked for me, crank the gain get more "hair"

perhaps try adjusting the speaker breakup.

Chris wrote a great article about it

http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=297417

[stvnscott]

No, this really crappy sounding. Not a good thing at all. I'll see about recording a clip of it.

[Benoni]

Originally Posted by stvnscott

No, this really crappy sounding. Not a good thing at all. I'll see about recording a clip of it.

yeah that would be great

[stvnscott]

Here you go. Pretty sinister stuff. My 11R went from having balls of steel to just balling up! Tried all the obvious stuff. Turned it off and back on. Reset to factory settings. Unplugged USB. Unplugged AES. Went all analog. Changed guitars. Changed cords. Nothing seems to make a difference.

This is the stock Browntown patch:

http://soundcloud.com/stvnscott/fuzzyphasing-11r-guitar

[teletotheworld]

I'll put in my $.02...

Hmm. What cab are you using? Have you checked the meters in the 11 rack to see if you're clipping? Just by looking at the wave form on soundcloud it looks as if you're clipping the output pretty hard. Sounds like it too.

[Leonb]

Hi,

Did you check the samplerate ?
When connected to a pc/mac it could be that it has been reset to 44.1kHz
96 kHz sounds better for high gain sounds

Leon

[stvnscott]

Originally Posted by teletotheworld

I'll put in my $.02...

Hmm. What cab are you using? Have you checked the meters in the 11 rack to see if you're clipping? Just by looking at the wave form on soundcloud it looks as if you're clipping the output pretty hard. Sounds like it too.

The patch is the stock Browntown patch. I think it is the Green 25W cabinet.

The levels are all good throughout. The meters are hitting about 50% across the board except for the guitar input, which is less (PAF pickups). I don't think you can trust Soundcloud waveforms.

Here's another clip. I took the Browntown patch and changed the amp to the 67 Plexi Variac and the cab to the 20W 4x12. I turned speaker breakup off. This one is actually worse. I wish you guys could be in the room with me to hear this. It is very balled up and has a crazy phase thing going on that I've never heard before. I don't think this is in the cabinets or speaker breakup. I've turned off the cab sims and used Red Wirez IRs in Sonar and get the same thing.

Check this out:

http://soundcloud.com/stvnscott/more...ess-11r-guitar

Again, this never happened before installing the expansion pack.

[Leonb]

Hi,
I listened at the same preset, and did some other tests, and you are right about the phasing ( no cabsim, poweramp into 2x12 ). It occurs mainly with highgain plexi sounds.
Turning the speakerbreakup down reduces the effect, but does not eliminate it.

My first guess would be that the speakerbreakup is not 100% out of the circuit. Chris told us about the combfilter effect of that breakup algorith. Could be just that.

But I really can't tell for sure if it's different from the "old" plexi, and I can't tell if its "the real thing" or an artefact either.

Anyone ?

Leon

[derker]

OP- Are you sure this is a new issue for you? You have a clip dated from a few weeks ago entitled "Eleven Rack Buzz", that seems to exhibit some noise issues.