Clean Chicken FX-chain overloads

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2014/05/01 10:51:45 (permalink)

Clean Chicken FX-chain overloads

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Wanted to get some decent sound to my Strat and tried the fx-chains under "Guitar and Basses". Clean Chicken, which sounds appropriate to the type of song I am making, seems to overload. The meters go at the top. I just wanted to check if anyone has the same phenomenom? Is it reproduceable?

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    Re: Clean Chicken FX-chain overloads 2014/05/01 12:02:25 (permalink)
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    Hi!
    Wanted to get some decent sound to my Strat and tried the fx-chains under "Guitar and Basses". Clean Chicken, which sounds appropriate to the type of song I am making, seems to overload. The meters go at the top. I just wanted to check if anyone has the same phenomenom? Is it reproduceable?


    What you are experiencing is clipping. That's is normal when the signal is too hot. All you need to do is adjust your gain stages appropriately until its at a good level for that particular song.
     
    FYI: The more tracks you have in a project, the lower each track fader needs to be. That is because the sum of 10 tracks at equal volume is greater than the sum of 5 tracks at equal volume. so the song with 10 tracks swill need the faders lower than a song with 5 tracks.  Gain stage is a process in all stages of music production (recording, mixing and mastering)
     
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    Re: Clean Chicken FX-chain overloads 2014/05/01 16:09:46 (permalink)
    Thank you CJay!
    I only had this one track when I tested Chicken clean and I did lower the input gain. Still...

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    Re: Clean Chicken FX-chain overloads 2014/05/01 18:25:03 (permalink)
    If someone just would check if that particular fx (chicken clean) works on their system I would check mine if there's anything I do wrong. If you guys have the same error then it would be a bug, wouldn't it?

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    Re: Clean Chicken FX-chain overloads 2014/05/02 12:05:08 (permalink)
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    Thank you CJay!
    I only had this one track when I tested Chicken clean and I did lower the input gain. Still...


    What about your other 2 to 10 gain stages? Even if you have one track and no effect, you still have more than one gain stage.
    1. You can have the effect input and output
    2. You have the track gain
    3. the track fader
    4. the send  level
    5. the bus level
    6. the master bus level and
    7. the main outs
    8. and never over look any kind of automation envelopes that you may not see.
     
    What are all these meters reading? What does your gain staging look like? Is your plugin registered?
     

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    Re: Clean Chicken FX-chain overloads 2014/05/02 21:54:28 (permalink)
    Hello Equality:
    I checked the Clean Chicken FX with three different guitars and the level on each of them was fine,  No clipping or distortion at all.  Cjay gave you very good advice on gain staging.  I would recommend checking that, or if you are using a preamp or audio interface, are you accidentally overdriving it?
     
     
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    Re: Clean Chicken FX-chain overloads 2014/05/04 16:49:20 (permalink)
    Thanks jude77 for checking! And again thanks Cjay for explicit reply. I tested severe
    al of the fx chains and just this Clean Chicken was the the problem. Woouldn't be the same overload regardless of fx chain selected if error is within the gain staging? I just used the fx chain in the track's fx bin, not as an effect send. 

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