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Post subject: Rocktron Hush questions.
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 5:47 am
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Questions:
1. Do you like it?
2. Did it alter your tone or sound in anyway?
3. Is it worth getting?

The Back story:

I recently won a "pre-owned" Rocktron "Hush" pedal on e-bay. The seller was a music store so I felt confident about buying it.

For those not acquainted with this pedal, when activated, it removes unwanted hiss and hum from amps and guitars. Think noise gate, but not a noise gate.

Anyway, I plugged it in and started playing. The hum was greatly reduced; greatly reduced! This was amazing! Virtually no hum. Turn the one and only knob on the pedal all the way up, and the hum is gone completely.

I start playing some notes and something is not right. My notes are choked and the tone becomes darker. I play some more and I notice that the signal kind of has this dark, minor "whah" like quality to it. The effect on my modulation pedals (delay and chorus) is dreadful. My simmering Andy Summers tones and notes are garbled. The notes are just not ringing out.

After turning the knob in many positions and moving the pedal around in various locations in the signal chain, I notice that the signal cleaned up and sounded better when I used my amp's effects loop. Unfortunately, the pedal was working intermittently and problems persisted.

I called Rocktron and they tell me that none of this should be happening. This pedal should not effect my tone in any way. Based on my descriptions, the pedal sounds defective to them. I have since sent the pedal back to the store and expect a refund shortly.


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