Amp Hum

[moviefn]

I am recording my guitar but the hum that is coming from it while it idles is extrememly loud. How can I get rid of that so it doesnt appear on the recording?

 

[rayc]

Is it the guitar?
the amp?
an interaction between a CRT & single coils?
If it's guitar you could gate it - lots of cheap pedals about to do the job.
If it's the amp I don't know.
If it's single coils to CRT turn & or move around until it is minimized OR get an LCD screen.

 

[Wazn]

Two suggestions

Try gating or expanding it in the mixing stage

or

Record some of the hum in the tracking stage, and see if you can use the hum that you captured to cancel the hum using phase.

 

[suprstar]

Is your amp properly grounded? I've experienced big hum using one of those adapters to plug a 3-prong plug into a 2-prong outlet.

CRT's DEFINATELY cause a lot of hum.. If I'm tracking in front of my DAW I absolutely must turn em off.

 

[dementedchord]

go ahead and try those other things... but if it omes down to everything else is off and the amp is the problem then you most likely are looking at power supply filters in the amp... relatively minor surgery... what kind of amp???

 

[moviefn]

The amp is a Hughes & Kettner Switchblade. The hum isnt too bad but it is noticeable. Also with the hum there is quite a bit of white noise/unwanted noise. How is that taken care of when recording? Is it just better equipment with professionals or is there a way to silence any extraneous noise out of the amp when it is idle? Excluding the ways that have been presented towards ridding it of hum.

 

[Rokket]

Sounds like you have a ground fault somewhere in the loop. Take it in and have a tech look it over.