Any ideas?

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Long...

Yes... taking the unit to another room... different circuit... I get the same results. I've tried several rooms on different floors.

Interesting about the dimmers... they are not "expensive" ones... they are on different breakers, but not on a seperate phase... wonder if that's the issue. The funny this is, though that with microphones (vocals) and keyboards, I don't have any issues with buzz.

Velvet
 
Just a question. Do you live near any radio broadcasting towers. I used to work in a theater which was very close to a major transmision cluster, and we would frequently have problems. It wreacked havoc on my DMX lines when I was running moving lights in there.
 
Nope... I don't live near any broadcasting towers.

I tried the wireless trick tonight... no go... still same old noise. I did find one direction I could face in the room where I'm off axis with what ever the noise source is, as the noise was the quietest when facing this certain direction, but nothing I did seemed to make it go away :mad:

Any other ideas?

Velvet Elvis
 
OK, lets summarize...

guitar (6 string & bass) & amp buzz anywhere in the house.
Buzz is audible from amp regardless of recording.
other instruments & mics are OK.

Any guitar with any amp buzzes?
Do the same instruments sound OK elsewhere?
If you plug a keyboard into the amp how does it sound?
How about the guitar only direct? (No amp).

Starting to sound like a grounding problem.

Kevin.
 
Kevin,

Any amp... any guitar... no problems using these amps and guitars at other locations.

Guitar direct... through a Genesis (like a pod) still makes the exact same noise.

Haven't tried keys through an amp, but yes the do not have any issues running direct.

Velvet Elvis
 
This is the last idea that I can come up with.

If you're in good graces with your neighbor, ask them if you can borrow a few watts of electricity and run a heavy-duty extension cord from their house to your rig and see what happens with that.

If it stops, you have a grounding problem somewhere. If it doesn't, something is being inducted into the power or signal lines from within your home.
 
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Maybe I will just call my electrician friend to come check out my panel.... I know that using a ground fault tester, my system checks out 100% fine...

Are those not accurate?
 
Do you have a multimeter. I would be interested to know what the power reads coming out of the wall. I don't think this is the problem, but it would be interesting to find out. You might also want to think about getting a power conditioner in front of the amp. It couldn't hurt.

Light

"cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Ganhdi
 
I do have a meter... I'll check it out this weekend and see what I find.

Velvet
 
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