Guitar/Amp Picking Up Radio Stations

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cusebassman said:
Well then nothin! When I would hear it, it would happen with both my electrics. But if you've swapped guitars and had it stop, I don't know what to suggest. That's what :D
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Maybe it's just that I didn't notice it. I wasn't really paying attention. I never am, but that is beside the point!
 
Record it. It might make a cool intro to song...some old song coming through on a guitar amp. :)
 
It may be your mains outlet. I built a radio once, and plugged the aerial into the mains. Majorly improved the reception. Yes, I'm an idiot.
 
legionserial: One is not a number

Correct. It is a word. 1, however, is a number.

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I mean 'one' as in the posh way of saying 'me'. It's a reference to the comedy show Spitting Image. Someone designates the queen with the number 1 for some reason...(it's too long ago for me to remember why)... to which she responds "one is not a number".
 
legionserial said:
I mean 'one' as in the posh way of saying 'me'. It's a reference to the comedy show Spitting Image. Someone designates the queen with the number 1 for some reason...(it's too long ago for me to remember why)... to which she responds "one is not a number".
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Don't know the show. I'm in the States and it's probably a UK only thing. I was responding with useless textual garbage anyway.
 
I spoke with the gents at Furman sound about this problem round about a month ago, and they had a pretty good idea. The guy asked me, "well, what station was it?" and I said "I have no f'ing clue," and he said, well, figure out what station it is.

THEN you take an actual radio, and tune that baby to that station. Then you wander around the room seeing what kind of signal that baby picks up. The furman fellas said that oftentimes you set your shit up in one place, and you start hearing the junk, and so you change all your cables and disconnect your whole board trying to find it, when, as it has been said, you're walking around with in a giant antenna. Sometimes moving everything just a couple of feet can kill it.

Of course, they also listed cables as the main culprit. My main offender was a 9 dollar p.o.s. guitar cable, and so I upgraded and that was that.

The channel I was picking up was... no joke.... bible talk. It sounded really cool when you cranked it up and and added distortion.
 
I had this problem with a Marshall amp I owned at one time and the Wha Wha pedal that I still own. The only thing that would fix the problem in both units was adding a 1000 pF cap in the proper locations. Completely fixed the problem. Its such an easy and cheap fix but makers of music gear cheap gear out to the max causing this kind of fustration for owner.
 
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