get a reamp box for your line level signals to send them into a guitar amp,
you will get much more pleasing results. it sounds to me like your amp may
be the culprit, have you tried hooking it up to anything else like a mixer
or recorder

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:36 AM, andy butler < akbutler@... > wrote:

> nope. I'm the original andy butler.
> www.andybutler.com
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> How distortion sounds depends on the circuit that's doing the distortion,
> not all analog circuits have a nice smooth overdrive.
>
> The DE does have high output compared to a guitar.
> It's possible you're going right past the nice overdrive
> and giving some circuit in your amp too much to handle.
>
> Monroe Eskew wrote:
> > Doesn't that amp route all signals through digital processing
>
> ...yep, that would do it.
>
>
> One thing you might try is feeding the DE into the fx return socket of your
> amp
> and see how that works.
>
> Hopefully this is just a matter of getting the gain staging right,
> and not that any of your gear is faulty.
>
> andy butler
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>
>
> avinopsvrecords wrote:
> >
> >
> > I appreciate your comments. Are you the same andy butler from Hercules
> > and Love Affair
> >
> > Anyway, I don't think it's just distortion. If I'm not mistaken, the
> > nature of analog distortion is such that you get steadily more intense
> > saturation as the circuitry is overdriven. This sounds (more) like
> > digital distortion, like I'm hitting the ceiling, killing the headroom,
> > and getting this very undesirable crackling noise.
>
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