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Post subject: Surge Protector and Power Strip with Mustang Amp
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 6:14 am
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Anyone using a Surge Protector or Power Strip when using their amp?

I've read something in google that surge protector can avoid the "buzz" noise and avoid the static electricity in your guitar strings (and other metal part of guitar and amp)that most
ungrounded outlets have when plugging your amp.

Is it ok to plug a surge protector to an ungrounded outlet and plug the amp through the surge protector?

My amp is a Mustang II (40w)


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Post subject: Re: Surge Protector and Power Strip with Mustang Amp
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 5:56 pm
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pet415 wrote:
Anyone using a Surge Protector or Power Strip when using their amp?

I've read something in google that surge protector can avoid the "buzz" noise and avoid the static electricity in your guitar strings (and other metal part of guitar and amp)that most
ungrounded outlets have when plugging your amp.

Is it ok to plug a surge protector to an ungrounded outlet and plug the amp through the surge protector?

My amp is a Mustang II (40w)


Anyone who insists on plugging any amp into an ungrounded outlet is playing Russian Roulette IMO.

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Post subject: Re: Surge Protector and Power Strip with Mustang Amp
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 12:59 pm
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It is especially dangerous when you use a microphone with a PA in tandem with your guitar amp. Have heard stories of lips and noses blown off. I grounded every outlet in my recording studio literally to a 12 foot rod I pounded down into the ground with a sledgehammer.

In the past in certain situations I have used those portable ground fault circuit interrupters.

Something like this could save a life.

http://www.amazon.com/TRC-90265-6-012-S ... pd_cp_hi_1

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Post subject: Re: Surge Protector and Power Strip with Mustang Amp
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 5:30 am
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Lips and noses blown off? Never seen that. But I can tell you it hurts like hell. :shock:

And back in the sixties, not only were most outlets not grounded, when they were grounded, the stage outlets and the sound board (in the audience) did not always have a common ground. (that last problem still exists to some small extent.)

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Post subject: Re: Surge Protector and Power Strip with Mustang Amp
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 5:41 am
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Thanks for the comments guys! :D
im going to check that shocksheild thing if its available here at my local hardware store.


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Post subject: Re: Surge Protector and Power Strip with Mustang Amp
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 5:51 am
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A little precaution goes a long way toward saving a life. GFI outlets and breakers appear expensive until you factor in the price of a life lost.

Here is another device you should have in your kit. http://www.amazon.com/GE-50542-Receptacle-Improper-Indicator/dp/B002LZTKIA/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1357044605&sr=8-3&keywords=circuit+tester Small price to pay to insure that your expensive amp is plugged into a correctly wired circuit. These are available at nearly all hardware stores for a small price.


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Post subject: Re: Surge Protector and Power Strip with Mustang Amp
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 5:45 pm
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Art1 wrote:
A little precaution goes a long way toward saving a life. GFI outlets and breakers appear expensive until you factor in the price of a life lost.

Here is another device you should have in your kit. http://www.amazon.com/GE-50542-Receptacle-Improper-Indicator/dp/B002LZTKIA/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1357044605&sr=8-3&keywords=circuit+tester Small price to pay to insure that your expensive amp is plugged into a correctly wired circuit. These are available at nearly all hardware stores for a small price.


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Tnx.


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