I have 2 amps, both Peavey, a Nashville 112 and a Nashville 400, through which I play pedal steel. I use an FX loop with XLR cables for the Eclipse. I went to do some recording through the 400, and there was a constant level of white noise/hiss. Nothing eliminated or reduced it until the Eclipse was shut off (volume controls were useless – the level stayed the same). The engineer tried to go direct and bypass the amp entirely, and he said there was still hiss, and he thought the output level must be set quite low (factory presets were restored first). I came home rather depressed and tried the same thing in my 112 – no hiss. I assume something is wrong with the 400, but why would there be a problem going direct into a board? Do the levels indeed need to be adjusted for direct recording as opposed to live through an amp? (If so, which levels? I found how they can be adjusted, but how would they then be set/entered?). Thanks for any help you can offer.
