Figured out some of the Clone Theory hiss issues.

[NITEFLY182]

OK - I just played my CTRI for several hours at band practice last night. Limited use clean but a lot of use dirty and I have realized why some people find it noisy and others find it fine. The key is where it is. When I just plugged it into the front of my rectifier to check it out at home it was noisy - thaqts because I was amplifying a chorused signal through several gain stages, even on the clean channel. This means the hiss that was there was significantly amplified in the preamp. When I play in a band context all my modulation is in the loop of a rectifier. That way, Im chorusing an amplified signal which means you get 96% lush swirl and 4% hiss which is really no worse that most overdrive pedals hittign a front end hard.

 

The sound of this pedal is way cool. Its much thicker than my CE5 which I had been using on the band board before. I think the delay times are a little shorter or somegthing because it almost sounds like a flange with high gain and when it peaks at the top there is this wonderful little plop in the sound that sounds amazing. If you want a chorus that will cut through gain and make a sort of wash of swirl on big chords but not sound like the full swoosh of a flange this is it. Just dont use it in front of your amp. The setting I was using was Chorus 2/Depth 3:00/ Speed 9:00

[L6Sguy]

glad you made this a seperate thread. i have a feeling a good 96% of the noise complaints i've read about pedals in the last so-many years can be directly attributable to pedal-placement.

[NITEFLY182]

Me too, I also just realized I posted the same text in two other threads but I feel like this is a big issue lately so I posted another thread.