get rid of amp noise/hum

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what setting do you use on your gate for guitar and bass amps.

I'm trying to figure out how to use this plug-in

my book says ratio all the way up and range at -80db

I have to put the threshold at -50 in order for it to sound alright

anyother suggestions?
 
Do you get the hum without your guitar plugged in?
 
noise reduction plugins are a wonder for this.

even reafir is pretty decent @ it.
 
I don't know if this works for anyone else but when tracking, I have found that if the guitar pups are facing due east signifigantly reduces buzz on my strat's single coils as I am very partial to pup1 on that thing.

I even went as far as plugging my guitar in the amp modeler to an APC UPS then shutting off all premise electricity at the breaker to the building, unplugging ups from outlet and I still got the exact same amount of buzz!

So now I know it wasn't solely electrically induced moreso than possibly naturally occurring magnetic/grounding based. It seemed to have something to do with the Earth's natural N/S magnetism poles when the pups are pointing either due north or south is when they transmit the most buzzing. It could also be due to transmission lines as well because all xmission lines around my building are to the north and south.

Still, with all the equipment properly powered up, the only effective workaround I've found to reduce it drastically is to face away from the PC (facing perfectly due east) and ensure I'm grounding out the guitar by holding onto the bottom three strings during break/quiet parts while recording and it's the same low noise floor as the humbucker.

Hope that helps.
 
i dont know why no one has said this yet. as you are standing (or sitting), slowly twist to the left or right and you will notice the hum gets better and worse. try to find the one position where there is the least amount of noise. if there is still a problem, try to adjust the settings on the amp to minimize the noise. i don't like using noise gates because i think they affect the tone too much and will sound less sharp, but sometimes its your only option. also turning the treble or presence down will help but also will negatively effect the tone. your tone is the most important thing, more important than getting rid of the noise completely, so make sure it sounds good because most times that noise will get buried in the mix or will add to the rawness of a performance which i think is also important. you can always chop off a section in your DAW where the guitar is not playing (which is really the only time the noise is noticable)
 
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