JDC
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Revalver
Hello All!
I was messing around with revalver today and had marginal success at best trying to record with it. VERY loud and hum noise existing when attempting to record distorted guitar solos. Is this the nature of this beast or what?
TIA
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RAR
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RE: Revalver
March 28, 04 9:30 PM
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Are you using a strat type guitar, or sitting close to the monitor for the PC? both of the are going to add a lot of noise.
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JDC
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RE: Revalver
March 28, 04 9:46 PM
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I am in my control roomand playing back at a low volume while recording. . . . The thing is - I'm not hearing the distorted interference until I play back the recorded track.
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ebinary
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RE: Revalver
March 28, 04 10:26 PM
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Are you playing through a preamp? Your dry signal need to peak at about -6db to get good results. If its peaking lower than that, you may be trying to playa guitar through a normal line level input. You need to plug into an input designed for guitar.
Eric
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JDC
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RE: Revalver
March 28, 04 10:30 PM
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I was plugging directly into a delta 1010. I assumed by the design of revalver that this would be the preferred method. Am I wrong?
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RE: Revalver
March 28, 04 10:48 PM
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ORIGINAL: JDC
I was plugging directly into a delta 1010. I assumed by the design of revalver that this would be the preferred method. Am I wrong?
Sorry, ReValver may be an amp emulator, but it's still only a DXi. The Delta 1010 expects line-level inputs, and your guitar is intrument level. Like ebinary said, you need a preamp to properly drive the Delta with your guitar.
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JDC
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RE: Revalver
March 28, 04 10:54 PM
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Okay - I'll try again tomorrow. I've got a Bellari tube direct box that should suffice. I suppose a guitar with active pickups would also work . . . . Thanks again for your insight.
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dburns
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RE: Revalver
March 29, 04 3:19 AM
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I may be way off base here, but it seems to me that Revalver adds hum and pickup noise, depending on the amp sim you choose. I thought that was part of the realism?
When I change amp sim types, the amount of hum, etc. changes.
Dave Burns Lowell, MA More equipment than skill.
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RE: Revalver
March 29, 04 8:24 AM
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sorry to go slightly OT.
but i have never been able to properly use revalver.
it loads as a soft-synth in my SONAR 3.1 install (i got it with SONAR 2.2) but, as such, i don't understand how to route audio to it (as a soft-synth, it expects MIDI in and generates audio out).
It seems like it should be loaded like an audio effect (placed in the FX bin of a track).
Is is somehow improperly installed in SONAR? or am i missing the obvious?
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ebinary
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RE: Revalver
March 29, 04 9:32 AM
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but i have never been able to properly use revalver. Just insert it in the effects bin like anything else. No need to hook up midi. Some effects are modeled as synths just so they can link to tempo - tempo is not exposed to dx effects. Eric
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JamminFool
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RE: Revalver
March 29, 04 10:37 AM
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like i said..."missing the obvious". never thought of adding a DXi softsynth in the FX bin...didn't think it made sense...but then again...that's what i get for thinking...  anyway...thanks for the help!
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Hellman
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RE: Revalver
March 29, 04 11:17 AM
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If you want to hear your guitar through Revalver while recording you need to click the "Input Echo" button to "on." That worked for me using Amplitube.
Hope this helps.
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RE: Revalver
March 29, 04 12:24 AM
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ORIGINAL: dburns
I may be way off base here, but it seems to me that Revalver adds hum and pickup noise, depending on the amp sim you choose. I thought that was part of the realism?
When I change amp sim types, the amount of hum, etc. changes.
What Revalver adds is high gain at low voltage levels, which naturally makes the signal chain more sensitive to whatever it finds at the front end, in this case the pickups. In this sense, it acts exactly as the real amp would.
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