Recording with hum

[insouciant]

I'm afraid it's a fact of life with my equipment and environment. I have tube amps, analog effects, and single coil guitars and basses for the most part. Even my Yamaha monitor speakers have some low level hiss. So I'm resigned to the fact that there will be some hum and hiss regardless of what I do. Yeah, I have the Boss N2 and the ISP Decimator but there will always be some level of hum with open air miking. BTW, I live on a sailboat which I rewired myself (worked on aircraft electrical systems in the Navy, so I have a fair amount of knowledge of AC and DC electricity.)-- no ground loops here, though the dock wiring may be suspect.

My question as a newbie is how you minimize it's presence in the recording process from the first track all the way through mixdown to the final product?

 

[Armistice]

High pass filters, gating / editing / fading out, automated shelf filters...

All things I've used. And getting as good a S:N as you can.

No magic answers from me, but then I'm oldskool.... possibly there's a magic plug in that'll do it all for you these days... luck!

 

[mixsit]

Well hello Navy. And welcome (to the money pit

Let's separate these out. Some sources are noisy –single coils more the dual, high gain guitar toys, play back amps and/or monitors may 'hiss some but that doesn't go on the recording. Ambient control deals with the environmental sig-to-noise end.
Most of the rest -the recording chain these days has a ton of quiet dynamic range though.
Rule of thumb is get it as clean at the source as practical and gain-stage right at the front, the rest falls into place fairly straight forward.