Single coil recording hum

[Slackmaster2K]

Ha! Good question. I've found that if you turn the guitar perpendicular to the monitor, the hum will pretty much disappear...but you can't move around a lot. Also, the hum shouldn't be noticable while you're playing, so you could always zero out the portions of "silence", which is a good idea anyway.

The only other alternative is to move back away from the monitor. Sucks.

I wonder if those flat panel monitors cause the same interference?

Slackmaster 2000

 

[Ted Scheffler]

I record music using Cakewalk software. However, I've never been able to figure out how to eliminate the hum that comes from my single coil guitar pickups being in close proximity to my computer monitor. The only thing that seems to work is to turn off my monitor, which isn't an optimal solution. Any ideas or suggestions?

 

[Eddie N]

if it makes you feel any better , the monitor causes hum when using a double coil humbucker too..

- eddie -

 

[Slackmaster2K]

Heh, I was going to add that too...however it only seems to happen when I use the neck humbucker on my les paul. When I use both humbuckers or just the bridge pickup I don't have problems.

The *worst* are soundhole acoustic pickups. Man that's just not duable unless you turn the monitor off

Slackmaster 2000

 

[ezgoin]

you could try to use 2 pickups at once.....that cuts the noise and also i read somewhere that pickups were being made specifically for that problem.....cant remember who's making them though...anyway....cutting the silence is the best solution i've found to the problem

 

[RWhite]

The best solution is to eliminate the hum from the source. There are a couple of ways to do this. The first to apply shielding to the pickup. This involves removing them from the guitar, wrapping the pickups in metalic tape, and painting the wood hole areas with metalic paint. The second is rather hairy, there is a way you can actually unwind the copper wire from the pickup and rewind it in a way that will cancel out the hum. The easy way is to just replace the pickup with a less noisy replacement, which usually means a humbucking pickup with the two coils stacked on top of one another rather than side-by-side. For details on any of these I suggest checking out Guitar Player magazine or any of a number of similar publications. Years ago I opted for the first procedure, although I paid a guitar tech to do it for me. Cut the hum from my Strat about 90%. Later I switched to a Les Paul, installed a Dimarzio pickup (I am a sucker for that leaden 70's sound), and now have a virtually noiseless guitar