I still hear noise when the gate is on, Track level issues – Line 6 3.7 User Manual

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Line 6 GearBox 3.7 – Troubleshooting

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be picking up electrical noise from your computer’s display or other sources. You can generally

reduce these noises with the GearBox Gate and Hum Reducer features.
Speaker or other Audio System Noise when using TonePort or GuitarPort hardware

It’s also possible that the noise is occurring AFTER TonePort/GuitarPort, in your speakers,

headphones, or other system that you are connecting your device to for listening. If you’re using

headphones, try another pair that you own or can borrow from a friend to see if the headphones

are the problem. If you’re listening via multimedia speakers or other equipment, try listening

with headphones instead to see whether the noise is coming from TonePort/GuitarPort or your

speakers or audio system. You may have the volume turned too high on the speakers or audio

system, causing distortion there. Also, try unplugging the cable that connects your Line 6 device

to your speakers or audio system, and see if the noise goes away. If it does, the noise is probably

coming from the Line 6 device or something feeding into it; if the noise doesn’t go away, it means

that the speakers or other audio system components are probably the noise makers. You should

also try a different cable to connect your device’s output to your system, to make sure the cable

isn’t the problem.
Noise complaints from your family and neighbors –

Sorry, you’re on your own there.

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I still hear noise when the Gate is on

The GearBox Gate will not completely eliminate noise but it will reduce it considerably. Please see the

information on the

Gate

to learn how to gate works and how its light can help you adjust the Gate for

best performance as you change Amp Models, pickups or guitars.

TonePort and GuitarPort hardware users can also try the

Hum Reducer

to eliminate the noise. Hum

Reducer is not available in GearBox with POD X3 or PODxt devices.

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Track Level Issues

The Player’s Track Level slider is available at the top right of the Browser window when the Player is

selected.

It sets the playback level for any Track that you load into the GearBox Player. The light to the right

of the slider glows green to show the current level of the Track as the Track is playing, and flashes red

if the Track “clips” because it is turned up too loud. When this happens you may hear distortion in the

Track playback, especially as the louder parts of the Track play, and you should move the slider to the

left to reduce the volume of the Track playback and avoid this clipping distortion.

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