That was scary, I just heard distortion on my monitors, but then I realized that I...

[junplugged]

was using the jack at the bay out of the stereo instead of my cd player being patched to the active monitors. And the stereo receiver/amp was off. I was freaking out for a while, distortion on James Taylor? I put in Green Day and yuk! Then notcied my error, aaah, clean audio, I guess my ears aren't shot yet!

 

[mattamatta]

Sounds like a scare.

One time I couldn't figure out why I'd turn on my guitar amp, and it would work fine for the first few seconds, and then a loud hiss would appear.

Then I realized that for some reason the volume was all the way up, so I was just hearing a very small version of it as it powered up (which sounded normal volume because of the high level), and then as it came to full volume, the hiss was the natural hiss one would expect from a low end amp at full volume.

 

[junplugged]

Sounds like a scare.

One time I couldn't figure out why I'd turn on my guitar amp, and it would work fine for the first few seconds, and then a loud hiss would appear.

Then I realized that for some reason the volume was all the way up, so I was just hearing a very small version of it as it powered up (which sounded normal volume because of the high level), and then as it came to full volume, the hiss was the natural hiss one would expect from a low end amp at full volume.

I could see that happening. When I use my single coil guitar, I get a huge blast of noise thru the pick up with only one of two identical monitors I have on my desk. Weird.

Also weird is that something somewhere in this house causes a really nasty rfi and 60cycle hum, it blows out all but the most powerful AM radio stations on all the receivers. I'm planning on shutting down one circuit breaker at a time to try to locate it.