I’ve got a Epiphone Les Paul for Xmas
Really nice.
Hoping to get a Gibson Les Paul when I’m a better player and 50 in 2 years time as a special present.
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I still miss mine. Great guitars.
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It’s the Slash range in Appetite Sunburst colour.
It was up for £799 but the guy said there was an offer on it and I could have it for £650 plus hard case so was pleased with that
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Well that was shite. Managed to secure a little alcove for myself in the attic. Plugged the amp in and was met with a bit of a hum. Plugged some pedals in and the noise was horrendous. Looks like some power supply issues. Lord knows how to correct that. It was unbearable.
I assume that your pickups are properly isolated as well? Hum/noise is bloody difficult to isolate - in my case, the cause of the hum was the faulty cable (I replaced with a Klotz cable and I can’t be happier with it). You might want to treat that as two separate issues, I guess. As for the pedalboard power supply, do you have someone who could lend you another, just to try to check that one off the list of possible causes?
The noise was more like static to be honest. I’ve tried a different socket in the house and that was better but didn’t plug the guitar in. The power supply I was using for the pedals was a daisy chain thing. I’ll rig up my proper isolated board supply next. Good news was that overdrive was no worse than anything else.
It didn’t sound like a pick up issue even though my guitar has P90’s and probably not the most quiet versions either. Part of me wants to upgrade them and the volume / tone pots on the guitar but it starts getting silly really quick if I don’t say stop somewhere along the line
Arghh. Tried a new socket and proper power supply. Noise was better but still unbearable.
Pedals made it worse. Still there direct into the amp but this time if I rolled off the volume or tone on the guitar it disappeared.
Any advice on guitar mods?
I have a stupid advice but it might help… How about trying the guitar solely with the amp, checking how it sounds with different tone and volume settings on the guitar and, if everything sounds OK, then adding one pedal at a time to the signal chain?
Tried that and it is good advice. Noise is still there but can be omitted via the volume or tone pots on the guitar.
Pedals make it worse.
Noise gate on the amp (Spark) makes no difference.
My last options are updating the amp software but seeing what I can do with the guitar itself I think. Nuisance.
So……couldnt get on with the Les Paul. Felt like the thick back of the neck was causing me issues so I went back and tried the Fender Player Plus that is HSS.
Shop only had it in Blue which wasnt for me but said they could order the Sunburst (above) and that it would be with me in 7-10 days. I then get a call Monday to say they were wrong and it would take up to 4 months!!
So I got deposit back and looked online where Andertons had 3 in stock so ordered from there yesterday. Just turned up.
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Best of luck, @Walshy07, have fun with it!
By the way, @Noo_Noo, did you manage to solve your noise issue?
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Looks like a beauty!
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Not yet. It’s getting weird and frustrating.
Tried downstairs. No noise direct to amp but noisy with pedals. New power supply for pedals ordered but I’m waiting for a polarity changer. That’s been 4 weeks and counting.
I’ll also order a new PSU for the amp shortly but I also need to look in the guts of the guitar and make sure it’s all earthed and isolated properly. Thinking about that distracted me with new PUPs and pots. None bought though.
Cracker.
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Plays beautiful that classic fender sound then you pull the switch out and you have a really heavy tone for those heavy songs.
Love it.
I told my friend-from-a-band that I was looking to build a small pedal chain for my bedroom stage, so he lent me some of his OD pedals a few days ago, starting with Fulltone OCD and Maxon OD-808. He says he’s got another contingent of pedals ready for me, including Friedman BE-OD, but only once I’ve fully digested these two, haha! I liked the Maxon but OCD is really something else for me, given that I mostly learn to play metal music. Maxon sounds like something classic rock/blues players would use, while OCD sounds perfect for heavy metal.
I do have issues with using either of these pedals with the bridge pickup in my Schecter (EMG 57) when I play it through the clean channel of my amp. It sounds too trebly, cold and sharp, I’m not sure how to dial in a bassier, warmer tone. I don’t have these issues with the other three pickups in my guitars (EMG 81 in my LTD sounds like a dream, especially with OCD, full, defined, warm), nor when I use EMG 57 with these pedals through a dirty channel of my amp. If anyone can give me any advice on how to make it sound warm, I’m all ears.
Sorry, absolutely no idea given that it’s a such a nuanced topic. It could anything or a combination of many things. Pickup position, string weight, guitar electrics (pots), guitar body wood etc.
A quick Google on the OCD and it’s a pretty transparent overdrive with lots of range but worth googling frequency response for any pedal. The OCD looks like this apparently
So I decided to look around at other pedals
OD3 (known to have a pretty decent frequency range). yellow is the OD3, Blue is the Tim Pierce OD. Green is stacked.
Solutions? Other that trying a heap of other pedals what about one of these
I thought about an EQ pedal but I’m not sure it can do anything in this case… I wonder if it’s just the way this pickup works with OD pedals. However, it’s pretty strange since that pickup sounds like a dream in OD channel of my amp. By the way, where would you position EQ pedal in your chain, before or after all the other pedals, tuner notwithstanding?
Absolutely no idea. I recently saw an article on the order of pedal chains and the conclusion was, “do whatever works for you!”
Newer pedals are less dependant on what goes before etc. I suppose I’d be tempted to put it after the OD in your case. More research needed.
I suspect that I’ll be in a similar position to yourself once I sort this noise issue. Doing my head in.
Success!!!
tried again this morning, directly into the amp. Amp with nothing plugged in silence. 
Lead in (no guitar) = noise
Guitar in = noise, can be reduced by rolling off the tone, but it’s still there.
Off chance tried a new guitar lead. BOOM no noise!!! Silence ensued apart from the musings of me playing badly with an out if tune guitar.
Come down stairs and my long awaited parcel for the new pedal board power supply has arrived. I’ll try that later.
All being good will be to build the carcass / frame for the pedal board. Then it will be pedal sequence, pedal position and wiring.
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