Splatty Keeley modded DS-1?

[brianh]

Have a DS-1 I modded to seeing eye and ultra mods.  Have always used it with single coils and it sounds great.  Just plugged in my (humbucker) LP and never noticed how splatty it is when digging in or palm muting.  Almost like a fuzz face.  This normal?

brian

[R.G.]

Have a DS-1 I modded to seeing eye and ultra mods.  Have always used it with single coils and it sounds great.  Just plugged in my (humbucker) LP and never noticed how splatty it is when digging in or palm muting.  Almost like a fuzz face.  This normal?

Dunno. Is an unmodified DS-1 splatting normal?

[brianh]

Not that I recall.  This splattiness reminds me of a fuzzface, it's pretty distinct.  Again, sounds perfect with single coild, but my LP makes it sound like it's just pushed too far.  The LP's pickups are basic Fralins, nothing super hot.

[brianh]

Quick video to demonstrate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iedn9WUbwbA

Maybe I should play with the volume control more, couldn't get too loud with it this morning.

[Electron Tornado]

Your pedal doesn't sound right. Not sure why it would be bad with humbuckers, but OK with single coils, though.

It sounds like it's blatty on both high and low strings. Is it more prevalent on one or the other?

Is it still blatty with the distortion knob a minimum?

Do the notes taper off evenly, or is there a buzz at the end just as they fade out?

[brianh]

Tried it tonight, splatty on all settings of the distortion knob even all the way down.  Sounds OK when playing lightly, but when banging chords or single notes hard, it splats.  It's an instant type splat, like something is being overloaded/pushed too far.   

Any ideas where to start to look?

thanks,
brian

[Electron Tornado]

Here is a good place to start:

http://www.geofex.com/fxdebug/fxdebug.htm

There is a section called "Blatty or Gated Sound".