Noisy pedal question

steod

I recently bought a behringer acoustic simulator pedal am400 to try out. While the pedal itself sounds decent enough there is an annoying hissing white noise type sound from it.

This sound only comes when I play the guitar and strings are touched apart from that its silent enough. Was wondering if one of the noise suppressor pedals would cure this. I thought these noise suppressor pedals were for cancelling noise and hum that comes from lots of pedals being switchted on together but could it work for this too ?

Not that experienced with pedals only experimenting with them after mainly using line6 amp with built in effects.

Zombienosh

It could be the pedal itself, I've never used behringer pedals but they have a rep for being pretty bad, secondly it could be the power? are using batteries or a power supply?
The noise suppressor wont work if you say the noise only happens when you play, noise suppressors will kill the noise in between playing more so.

are you using the "out" or the "direct out"

geetar

what he said^

yeah its probably just the pedal, alot of pedals make noise, some due to them being poor quality, and others due to their natural design. even the highest end of certain pedal types will make noise.

if you are using a single power source for multiple pedals, you can reduce noise if you use an independant power source or battery.

-=al=-

goood old behringer.... the guitar is grounded aok rite? prob just the pedal man

steod

Yeah your right is just the pedal got a mate to try it with different guitar and amp and sounds the same. Incidently after researching this bit more even the more expensive boss ac3 pedal is prone to this noise too. According to some other forums these acoustic simulator pedals perform best when they are connected directly to a pa system just in case anyone else was thinking of taking a punt on one.