loungepenguin
New member
Hi
I very recently bought a Zoom MRS802cd. I am having some humming noise problems with it.
Basically I plug my electric guitar in (with a brand new decent £25 thick guitar cable), turn the input and recording levels up to the required point and there is a humming sound. This is cut down to almost nothing if I put my fingers across the strings.
I have also plugged my acoustic in. This has a home made bug built into it so I was not expecting it to sound amazing but the hum is really bad. This time though if I put my fingers over the input on the guitar the hum disappears.
If the cable is just in the machine’s input and not plugged into anything else there is a nasty buzz unless I touch the end of it.
I have tried turning off all other electrical equipment in my room but no better. I have trioed moving away from the machine but still no good. The manual says I might need to ground the recorder. There is a little screw under the machine at the back and it says to use this to ground but does not mention how.
I had a little search on how to do this but nothing that I saw seemed to explain simply to a newbie how this is done.
Any help would be very appreciated!
Thanks
I very recently bought a Zoom MRS802cd. I am having some humming noise problems with it.
Basically I plug my electric guitar in (with a brand new decent £25 thick guitar cable), turn the input and recording levels up to the required point and there is a humming sound. This is cut down to almost nothing if I put my fingers across the strings.
I have also plugged my acoustic in. This has a home made bug built into it so I was not expecting it to sound amazing but the hum is really bad. This time though if I put my fingers over the input on the guitar the hum disappears.
If the cable is just in the machine’s input and not plugged into anything else there is a nasty buzz unless I touch the end of it.
I have tried turning off all other electrical equipment in my room but no better. I have trioed moving away from the machine but still no good. The manual says I might need to ground the recorder. There is a little screw under the machine at the back and it says to use this to ground but does not mention how.
I had a little search on how to do this but nothing that I saw seemed to explain simply to a newbie how this is done.
Any help would be very appreciated!
Thanks