Please, no ugly noise profiles!

CarloLf · Oct 17th 2020

Today I looked upon the new profiles uploaded to RigExchange, as I do once a week or so. I tried some, and met some with disturbing, ugly noise when loaded, before any playing. Sorry people. We all do appreciate your efforts and your upload of new profiles. But before: Can you please check your profiles for avoidable noise? It is not a welcoming thing when I first have to go to the input section and turn the Noise gate up to 4, 5, or 7 until the ugly noise from the cab disappears.

Sorry, this has to be said. I noticed this ever since a became a Stage user last year.

paults · Oct 17th 2020

If turning up the noise gate makes the noise go away, it is coming from your guitars pick ups, not from the rig. Are you using a guitar with single coil pickups? Are you listening to Riggs with higher gain than you used to use before you had the stage?

CarloLf · Oct 18th 2020

Quote from paults

it is coming from your guitars pick ups

this is partly true. While yesterday I played on my SC Strat, I retried with my Les Paul and switched to Strat agian. Yes, the noise on those profiles with the Strat increases much. While on the other side, with no guitar connected at all, profiles where the Input noise gate and high gain levels is clearly heard through the cab. So, this could be easily turned off using the noise gate on Input.

Best comparision: take TopJimi's "TJ-AFD #34-Max-2" (noise gate 0.0) and "TJ-AFD #34-Max-M" (noise gate 5.0). TopJimi is considered as are well known profiler. So, why can did he publish profiles with these different settings?

This is just an example, and as a willing tester, I would require from the profile authors to just deliver quality on this simple settings. Of course, I am willing to adjust for different guitars.

Ingolf · Oct 18th 2020

Fair enough, and indeed it'd be great if the people who do profiling did a bit of housekeeping in this regard.

Btw, on my machine the input is locked so I would never realize when settings defer that much.

DonPetersen · Oct 18th 2020

Quote from CarloLf

I first have to go to the input section and turn the Noise gate up to 4, 5, or 7 until the ugly noise from the cab disappears.

this is quite a high value.

The PROFILER genereally has less noise than a traditional guitar amp, but when gain is added to gain, noise WILL come up, it's unavoidable like gravity.

A properly grounded and shielded guitar and a certain distance from hard drives, cell phones etc. helps a lot.

I don't think this is normal behaviour.

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