Can't get rid of Distortion

[Paul Fry]

I need help! I can't for the life of me get rid of this constant distortion. I want a clean sound & have lowered the pickup, tried to eq it using my Line6 Pod with no luck. Is it possible my pickup is bad?

[Howard Parker]

Take everything out of the signal path except guitar and amp (no vol. pedal...nothing). Still distort? If it does, swap amps. Swap instruments.

If no distortion with psg/amp alone, add one device at a time until you find the culprit.

Distortion is not typically not an eq issue. You may be over driving a component.

Process of elimination.

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[Donny Hinson]

You're using a powered volume pedal, and the gain is probably set too high. One thing you have to remember, that if you put too much signal into the amp, there is no amp setting that will take away the distortion. All an amp does is make what goes in come out louder.

(When I first got a Hilton pedal, the gain on it was set so high it was unusable.)

[David Wren]

Now it's been a while since I had my Session 500, but it seems I remember 2 inputs for the instrument. Might try the lower volume input and see if that makes a difference.

[Paul Fry]

Thank you guys. I will try those things.