[sdiy] New to sdiy but w/ some knowledge

[Elain Klopke]

I'm guessing that Tom is a smart Engineer..... https://xkcd.com/670/

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net>
wrote:

>
> On 27 May 2017, at 20:22, sleepy_dog at gmx.de wrote:
>
> > Am 27.05.2017 um 18:04 schrieb Tom Wiltshire:
> >> they could drive that harder too! Some people just want everything on
> 11.
> >
> > Of course! It's louder!
> >
> > Might booster pedals not make things noisier overall than having damn
> loud pickups in the first place?
> > Perhaps even nosier than active pickups, with the preamps close to the
> sources.
> > Noise is especially bad with very high gain sounds, I guess.
> >
> > Steve
>
> Of course! Louder is better! And I've just finished building an amp that
> goes to 12!!
>
> Yeah, in general, I'd have thought it makes sense to have as much "signal"
> as you can to improve your ratio to the noise picked up further down the
> chain. So louder pickups would be better, especially if you're going to
> have a ton of gain and boost whatever background noise you've got  by +80dB.
>
> The downside would be if that made them a lot more sensitive to hum and
> other forms of noise from the actual guitar.
>
> T.
>
>
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