Hiss Reduction

[jonshin2003]

I have a Epiphone Casino, Roland JC-90, FireWire 410 and PTMP.

When I record my guitar I get a very noticible hiss. I have the guitar channel padded (FW410 pad button on front is on). The signal gain is about 7. The PTMP gain level is flat (most of the time)

I can reduce the hiss, but lowering the gain on the FW410, but if I do that I have to turn my guitar amp volume way up to get anything out of it. But that is too loud to deal with.

I have tried gating, but the hiss is so loud that I can't get it to cut off without killing the light guitar sounds.


I know it is coming from the guitar amp, because when I plug in direct to the FW410 there is no hiss. I can't really do that b/c it's not the sound I want.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Jon

[JeffBarnett]

Are you miking the guitar amp? I assume the hiss is audible when you listen to the amp?

If so, there's not a lot you can do to avoid recording the hiss. Consider it a "feature" of your amp. You can, however, use noise removal software in Pro Tools to go in and take the hiss out after the fact.

There are a number of tools to do this - DINR, SoundSoap, Waves, Sony Oxford, etc.

[jonshin2003]

No, I'm not miking.

Yeah, I can hear the hiss when I turn it on.

I will check out the tools. Thanks!