Dealing with gain/boosts with H9

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    • September 20, 2023 at 5:43 pm #174251
      BlueWingedTiger
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      Hey everyone!

      I was wondering if someone could help me out, I have a H9 that I use on a pre/post setting, however I have some boosts/fuzzes in my signal chain that are pushing up the volume quite a bit (so I can distort my amp)

      whenever I turn on the boost/eq pedal I always get the red light indicating that I’m clipping the H9, however it’s very situational (1-2 songs in our set), is there a way to set it so it automatically adjusts the gain? I wouldn’t want to set it up globally for that situation when everything else in the set is far quieter.

       

      thanks!!

    • September 20, 2023 at 9:41 pm #174255
      rxguitars
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      I have had this same issues and my solution was to put my Kingsley Page right in front of the H90. It compresses just enough to contain the signal before it hits the input of the H90. You may be able to do this with a less expensive OD as well.

      Roy

      Interested to hear how others have dealt with this issues.

       

    • September 21, 2023 at 11:32 am #174260
      sKenDread
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      I feel that this is an interesting conversation to have.

       

      I tend to gain stack my drive pedals too. But I don’t level boost. Mainly the pedals are there to provide the amp with a particular tone I want it to see.

      Whereas in my previous setups I would use e.g TS808 gain=0 vol=max straight into my boogie with the channel setup on the brink of breakup.

       

      So nowadays my OD or DS is there to provide a slight mid bump or scoop to my guitar tone not a level boost. Any gear post those pedals doesn’t get hammered.

       

      But it’s my preference to tone though

    • September 22, 2023 at 3:18 pm #174286
      BlueWingedTiger
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      rxguitars wrote:

      I have had this same issues and my solution was to put my Kingsley Page right in front of the H90. It compresses just enough to contain the signal before it hits the input of the H90. You may be able to do this with a less expensive OD as well. Roy Interested to hear how others have dealt with this issues.

      sKenDread wrote:

      I feel that this is an interesting conversation to have. I tend to gain stack my drive pedals too. But I don’t level boost. Mainly the pedals are there to provide the amp with a particular tone I want it to see. Whereas in my previous setups I would use e.g TS808 gain=0 vol=max straight into my boogie with the channel setup on the brink of breakup. So nowadays my OD or DS is there to provide a slight mid bump or scoop to my guitar tone not a level boost. Any gear post those pedals doesn’t get hammered. But it’s my preference to tone though

      thaanks for the comments! Quite interesting solutions we got here.

      The main thing is that I really do want the level boost (to push the amp into overdrive), I feel like the only way to really solve this would be to have the boosts *after* the h9 or put it into a separate loop, but rn the issue is so minimal I don’t think it’s worth it taking the time to pull something like this off

    • September 22, 2023 at 3:36 pm #174287
      rxguitars
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      you can actually have the H90 volume boost by increasing the output volume. I forget the name of the tab but is right there next to the controls.

      That’s if your using midi.

      Roy

      • September 22, 2023 at 7:30 pm #174292
        BlueWingedTiger
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        I actually do that on my h9’s Power Wah patch because one of the nice things about that wah is that it just really boosts your tone, lol

         

        However I use my H9 more sparingly vs a constant tool (I use it mostly for reverbs and modulation on some songs)

    • September 22, 2023 at 3:40 pm #174288
      sKenDread
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      Ah this is a good thought!

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