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little__bear
Newbie here so i apologise in advance for any confusion! I know nothing about wiring but i have found diagrams etc online to look at and come to some assumptions.....
I have a tokai 'springy sound' electric guitar that all seems to be wired fine and has a ground wire from the bridge to the pots. So i am assuming here that the electric guitar is not a problem.
The amplifiers (one a large monitor amp and the other a small practice amp) give an awful hum and lots of 'snap crackle and pop' noises when my guitar is plugged in. One amplifier is a 15 watt guitar that has been electrically tested and yet creates all this noise. The large monitor also gives the same amount of noise.
When i put my hands on the guitar the noise drops dramatically but it is still there whilst playing and is obvious in recording...
Especially when i have added a 9v distortion box and a 9v wah pedal to the mix which makes it much much worse!! :-(
It is more than a general hum... there is a hum but lots of crackly sounds too... which is quite unnerving.
To note.... i sometimes get a weird electric current feeling (kinda feels furry) from my boyfriends laptop and from our general audio amplifier downstairs, which also makes a pop sound when the fridge turns on and off etc....
Anyways thats my situation...someone thought there could be an earth/ground loop in the house and some other musicians have suggested this:
Try plugging the amplifier, distortion box/wah pedal with the ground removed? by using a european 2 pin...
Obviously i dont want to cause harm to myself or my equipment so has anyone got any ideas to sort out this problem? or localise it to what the hell is causing it? its driving me crazy...
any help would be much appreciated....
thanks,
I have a tokai 'springy sound' electric guitar that all seems to be wired fine and has a ground wire from the bridge to the pots. So i am assuming here that the electric guitar is not a problem.
The amplifiers (one a large monitor amp and the other a small practice amp) give an awful hum and lots of 'snap crackle and pop' noises when my guitar is plugged in. One amplifier is a 15 watt guitar that has been electrically tested and yet creates all this noise. The large monitor also gives the same amount of noise.
When i put my hands on the guitar the noise drops dramatically but it is still there whilst playing and is obvious in recording...
Especially when i have added a 9v distortion box and a 9v wah pedal to the mix which makes it much much worse!! :-(
It is more than a general hum... there is a hum but lots of crackly sounds too... which is quite unnerving.
To note.... i sometimes get a weird electric current feeling (kinda feels furry) from my boyfriends laptop and from our general audio amplifier downstairs, which also makes a pop sound when the fridge turns on and off etc....
Anyways thats my situation...someone thought there could be an earth/ground loop in the house and some other musicians have suggested this:
Try plugging the amplifier, distortion box/wah pedal with the ground removed? by using a european 2 pin...
Obviously i dont want to cause harm to myself or my equipment so has anyone got any ideas to sort out this problem? or localise it to what the hell is causing it? its driving me crazy...
any help would be much appreciated....
thanks,