Providence Anadime Bass Chorus.

[Blaze77]

Hi everyone. This is my first post here. I'm so glad I found this place.

I have a small problem. I bought the Providence Bass Chorus and there seems to be something wrong with it, but I'd like to discuss this with someone who uses the same chorus.

The problem is that the effect has too much background noise, for my taste. When the switch is in the second position, the Providence has more noise than the EXC bass Clone. In the third position, the noise becomes really loud with a pronounced LFO modulation.
It's worse when I set the depth knob to zero.
In these positions, the effect is useless because the noise is audible on recordings.

In the first position (from the bottom), the effect is quiet and I don't have any problems.

The noise is there regardless of whether I use the effect on batteries or with a power supply.

I really like the sound, but these two settings are driving me crazy.

Can someone help?

[Blaze77]

Hi Guys. Anyone who has this chorus can help?

I just added the sound somple with the issue - first fraze is with switch position 1 and then I change the position of the switch to no 2 and 3 at the end where is very loud LFO leaking to the sound path

Edited Monday at 15:25 by Blaze77

[Bagman]

(I don't have nor have ever tried that type of Bass Pedal )

 

yes I agree that switch 2 and 3 are adding unwanted noise 

 

a few years back I had a chorus pedal doing a similar thing (Tech 21) and I "solved" that by how it was powered , IIRC it exclusively used it's own output from the power brick 

 

good luck 

[NoirBass]

Hey, I’ve got the Anadime BC. Let me check it out. I would say Bagmans suggestion above is a good place to start

[Blaze77]

On 13/01/2026 at 21:12, Bagman said:

(I don't have nor have ever tried that type of Bass Pedal )

 

yes I agree that switch 2 and 3 are adding unwanted noise 

 

a few years back I had a chorus pedal doing a similar thing (Tech 21) and I "solved" that by how it was powered , IIRC it exclusively used it's own output from the power brick 

 

good luck 

Hey, Thanks for answer.

So far, I've tried several power supplies, and unfortunately, the noise is the same in both positions two and three. Even on battery power. While position two is bearable because it produces roughly the same noise as the EHX Bass Clone, which I consider noisy, position three is useless because the noise is audible while playing.

[Blaze77]

On 15/01/2026 at 07:49, NoirBass said:

Hey, I’ve got the Anadime BC. Let me check it out. I would say Bagmans suggestion above is a good place to start

When you use it in the third position, do you clearly hear the noise with additional LFO modulation while playing?

[Bagman]

Bass Guitar you are using? 

if you honk up the tone knob or treble boost does “hiss” occur when you take your fingers off the instrument? 

[NoirBass]

12 hours ago, Blaze77 said:

When you use it in the third position, do you clearly hear the noise with additional LFO modulation while playing?

 

 

Ok, so just rigged mine up - unfortunately I'm getting the same issue as you describe! The middle switch position is noisy and the top position is worse. I'm using an isolated Strymon PSU.

 

Out of curiosity I A/B'd it with a Boss CEB-3, Tech21 Bass Boost Chorus and an EHX Bass Clone.

The Boss and the Tech21 were all but silent. The EHX was noisy (top end hiss) as soon as I engaged the effect. The Providence was nice a quiet in the bottom switch position and progressively noisier (hiss as the LFO sweeps) as you went up between the three positions. I can only assume the Tech 21 and Boss have some filtering going on before the output?

 

I also added a TU-3 in before the Anadime to see if it needed buffering to stop the hiss - it made no difference.

 

I must have noticed this before and just settled on using the bottom switch setting? It's a shame as out of the four pedals the Providence has by far the best sounding chorus to my ears.

Edited 1 hour ago by NoirBass