Triaxis and GSP1101 noise problems

[Booyah]

I need help getting rid of some bad noise I'm getting with my new setup. I added a GSP1101 to my Triaxis because it gives me pre and post gain effects. Mostly I like it because I can use reverbs, chorus and delay post preamp and also have compression for cleans, overdive, wah and pitch/detune before the Triaxis. Everything was ok until I bought a new SSS Strat with fat 50s last week and I can't get rid of the hissing and hum, its noisy with any amount of gain, with or without compression. The strat is brand new, I've tried different cables too. I notice that the noise dissipates a lot when I'm in position 2 and 4. In position 1, 3 and 5 the noises are almost as loud as the notes I'm hitting, definitely unusable. I've played with the noise gate, I even hooked up a Boss NS2 between my guitar and the GSP as a 2nd gate but the noise problem persists. It's fairly quiet when I'm not playing. I've tried ground lifting the Triaxis and GSP, tried Triaxis loops send and regular output, tried +4/-10 and about every level combination imaginable. I think my Triaxis just hates this unit in front of it. I had heard somewhere about cutting the ground off of cables in my chain but before I go hacking up my gear I wanted to see what the gurus on this forum had to say. I won't part with my Triaxis, am open to buying 2 different rack mount effects units and selling the GSP if there is one out there that my Triaxis can get along with in front of it.

My setup is this: Guitar into GSP1101 front input, GSP1101 loop send into Triaxis input, Triaxis main output into GSP1101 loop return (mono), GSP1101 line out (mono) into Mesa Boogie 20/20 then out to a Carvin Legacy 2x12 cab with V30s. All gear is plugged into a Pyle power conditioner in the same rack and I keep the power cables away from line cables or they cross paths but never run parallel.

Thanks for any advice or possible solutions anyone can offer!

 

[ryjan]

Everything was ok until I bought a new SSS Strat with fat 50s last week and I can't get rid of the hissing and hum

I assume you had another guitar that was quiet with this exact set up?

 

[Booyah]

Yes a 79 Washburn Eagle with humbuckers (does have split coils and I use them but never really noticed problems)

 

[ryjan]

Well, I guess we narrowed that problem down a bit there. 8)

 

[daveg62]

Single coils are noisy!
I run the exact same setup, gsp1101 and triaxis. I bought a G&L Legacy and couldn't stand how noisy it was. My solution was changing out the single coils for Bill Laurence noiseless pickups. That fixed it.

 

[Booyah]

Thanks for the responses gang, the problem isn't with the single coils. I'm well aware of how noisy single coils are, this is a hum that shouldn't be there. I'm still working on the problem but got some ideas on another forum that I'm going to try out. Peace.

 

[Monsta-Tone]

I know this is an old thread, but did you ever get it figured out?
I'm having very similar issues with hiss and the GSP in 4CM.

 

[r_cod_81]

Could it be a ground loop? Does either the GSP or Triaxis have a ground-lift switch? If so lift one of the grounds.

 

[firmani99]

I run a 1101 with the four cable method with a dual rec. I had a lot of hum. The solution was to cut the grounds off of both of the cables that run to and from my effects loop. I know this has been discussed quite a bit with the 4cm but have you tried that?