Hi everyone,
i have been playing lately with the spring reverb to get surf sounds. I ended with a tone i like, with some parameters pushed but there is always a tad of clipping in the result.
Now, i'm a trying to learn a song that require to use the bridge pickup on my strat (it was the middle till there), and the clipping is unbearable.
I'm using pretty extreme settings on the surf reverb
Mix 85% Decay Time 3,2s Dripstone +5 Spring size 8.6
All the other valus are relatively stock.
I have tried many countermeasures to adresse the problem : decreasing the mix, putting a parametric EQ at 3khz before or after the reverb, putting a high cut on the spring reverb, decreasing my guitar volume, decreasing the rig volume. All of these gives me so so results, either the clipping is not reduced enough or the tone loose all his sparkle.
For now the best solution i have come with is to reduce the input sense.
It's currently set at +6db globally. I don't get any clipping without the reverb, i get sometimes small orange flickering when digging very high.
When adding the reverb, i get the clipping demonstrated in the first clip.
WIth clean sens at -6db (minus six), the problem is really tamed (albeit still there when digging very hard), but it can't be a solution to fiddle with the clean sens just for one sound (is it even possible to change the clean sens only for one rig without using a performance ?)
What could i do
ps: i have also tried a "pure booster" before the reverb, but the volume reduction only goes to -5db which is not quite enough.