Reflex - weird humm when turning down volume knob

[KasperFauerby]

Hi guys,

Just wanted to run this by you. I've noticed a strange humm/noise issue with my Reflex.

I was recording something with a fairly high gain tone through my Kemper, so some kind of humm is to be expected. Kempers noise gate easily takes care of that problem - for the most part.

However, if I turn down the volume on the guitar - even just ever so slightly - I get a crazy amount of humm. Turn the volume back up to full and the humm is gone again.

We're talking so slight adjustments to the volume that I don't think it could possible be a noise gate threshold thing.

Any ideas? Could there be a problem with the volume pot? Anyone tried something similar?

Cheers,
Kasper

 

[DrKev]

If the volume pot otherwise works correctly, e.g. at lower gain or clean tones, I'd tend to think it's not faulty. Could be e.g. a funky solder joint? Test with different cables, try adding and removing pedals from the effects chain, if you're plugged directly into the Kemper, try adding a non-true bypass pedal as a buffer first, etc. If it is the pot, at least that's a cheap and easy fix but try to eliminate the other possibilities first.