Clean Sense / Distorted Sende

Quote from Armin

Did you find some optimal settings for your guitars?
Which settings do you use for your guitars?

I found that my LesPauls makes some unwanted distortion when using clean sounds.

If you get input clipping on clean sounds, you need to reduce the clean sense. I have a Häussel Tozz XL in the Bridge Position with really has some extremely high output. So when adjusting the clean sense i select the pickup with highest output and just hit the strings as hard as i can. The input led should become orange, but not red. I need to reduce my clean sense to about 3.1. But after that even the TOZZ XL can produce a nice clean tone.

I don't know about others, but finding the "Distortion Sense" knob helped a good bit with the overall lack of gain I'd been experiencing on single-note lines vs. chords. I've usually got it on 1.9 or more - I've not regretted cranking this knob on saturated sounds yet. Now if I could just get a bit more "squish" out of the response...

-djh

Squish? What´s that?

I think "squish" is a highly compressed signal

Quote from saschak

Squish? What´s that?

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"Squish" = technical term, very scientific. Sustain, basically. Also related to "compression" amd if you're lucky, "bloom". The feeling that you amp has your back, instead of fighting you.

[Nigel Tufnel is showing Marty DiBergi one of his favorite guitars]

Nigel Tufnel: The sustain, listen to it.
Marty DiBergi: I don't hear anything.
Nigel Tufnel: Well you would though, if it were playing.

-djh