mtillem
Active Member
So I bought a used Peavey 5150 about a month ago. It has a sweet ass heavy tone with any of my heavy guitars (LTD 7 string with EMG-HZ, SG with SD Blackouts, Ibanez RG470 with EMG 81/85 and my ESP EC-1000 with EMG 81/60) but I've been fighting a noisy ass amp since. When on the lead channel, with no signal, it is humming like a mother and with a guitar in the same room plugged in it feeds back like crazy.
I was researching online about this yesterday and found a way to connect my Boss NS2 to take care of this. Basically I run my signal, after my wah and Drop Tune (tone shaping pedals) into my NS2's 'INPUT'. From there, I go NS2's 'SEND' to my tube screamer (distortion pedals) to my 5150. I take the 'SEND' from the 5150's effects loop to a compressor to the NS2's 'RETURN' and then NS2's 'OUTPUT' to the 'RETURN' on the 5150. I couldn't play with this too much last night but shit it works pretty well. Might try the compressor on the other side and tweak the settings but that's all fine tuning, I'm just happy the hum and the feedback seem to be under control, not 100% gone yet but manageable. See the 'borrowed' image below.
I was researching online about this yesterday and found a way to connect my Boss NS2 to take care of this. Basically I run my signal, after my wah and Drop Tune (tone shaping pedals) into my NS2's 'INPUT'. From there, I go NS2's 'SEND' to my tube screamer (distortion pedals) to my 5150. I take the 'SEND' from the 5150's effects loop to a compressor to the NS2's 'RETURN' and then NS2's 'OUTPUT' to the 'RETURN' on the 5150. I couldn't play with this too much last night but shit it works pretty well. Might try the compressor on the other side and tweak the settings but that's all fine tuning, I'm just happy the hum and the feedback seem to be under control, not 100% gone yet but manageable. See the 'borrowed' image below.
