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Input problems in EDP - Truncating volume swells.
This week my EDP began "truncating" the initial part of my volume swells.
That is, it acts a bit like a noise gate where it only records a signal
above a certain input level. For example: if I record a smooth volume
swell (beginning with complete silence), the play back will sound as if it
didn't record the initial part of the swell. This results in a rather
abrupt appearance of the loop vs. the subtle effect I was after. This is
the first time its misbehaved in the past year that I've had it.
I double checked the Threshold value, and it is set to 0.
Has anyone else experienced this? Can this be fixed.
More info:
After I noticed the problem, I took the EDP out of the effects loop of my
mixer to make sure my mixer wasn't a part of the problem. I sampled a good
volume swell into my DL4 pedal (which worked just fine thank you) as a
"test
swell" and then plugged the DL4 into the echoplex. I set the EDP's mix to
50% and the original volume swell comes through the signal path perfectly
smooth, but the recorded version is still cut-off and abrupt. This is done
with the input set at 25% which is where I normally keep it. When I move
it
to %50, it seems to work better, but then I overload the EDP and it
distorts.
Any suggestions?
thanks,
Greg