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rwil
Post subject: E.J. Strat in small home studio
PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:39 am
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Hi there,

I got few days ago my 1st ever strat! I got it on ebay and I'm totally floored! Now, the only problem is the noise on positions 1-3-5. My studio is small and I'm very close from all of my devices and there's only few spots where I can play having not so much noise, and of course I have to keep the guitar a 90 deg and even tilt foward a bit. For some reasons yesterday it was even worse since I was getting kind of motorboat noise!?
I already tried in a store a deluxe having samarium and a Johnson like mine, and it was day & night. So far, I really want to keep the pup things as is...
Is a kind of Furman AC-215 power conditioner may help?

Any suggestions are welcome!

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Post subject: Re: E.J. Strat in small home studio
PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:13 pm
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rwil wrote:
Hi there,

I got few days ago my 1st ever strat! I got it on ebay and I'm totally floored! Now, the only problem is the noise on positions 1-3-5. My studio is small and I'm very close from all of my devices and there's only few spots where I can play having not so much noise, and of course I have to keep the guitar a 90 deg and even tilt foward a bit. For some reasons yesterday it was even worse since I was getting kind of motorboat noise!?
I already tried in a store a deluxe having samarium and a Johnson like mine, and it was day & night. So far, I really want to keep the pup things as is...
Is a kind of Furman AC-215 power conditioner may help?

Any suggestions are welcome!

Try plugging your amp into an outlet by itself. Turn off any flourescent lights, T.V. , or other electronic devices that are not in use in the room. When I do this my guitars are very quiet, but if I turn on a T.V. the noise level goes way up.

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Post subject: Re: E.J. Strat in small home studio
PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:38 pm
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Randy1 wrote:
Try plugging your amp into an outlet by itself. Turn off any flourescent lights, T.V. , or other electronic devices that are not in use in the room. When I do this my guitars are very quiet, but if I turn on a T.V. the noise level goes way up.


Fo sure lights is not a problem, but T.V. could be something to verify since my son is having one in bedroom just over my studio-cave and I think yesterday night the tv was on. This afternoon the noise was acceptable and it would be perfect if I could just to get a more comfortable position to play the guitar while recording!
I will try to plug the amp and maybe other stuff elsewhere...

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Like you said, just pointing it in the direction of another electronic device can create a lot of noise.

Some other things I'd check for...

- cable quality
- proper wall outlet grounding (not all 3-prongs are properly grounded)

Also, are you playing with any gain at all? Those singles aren't going to be dead quiet with gain on them. At that point, it might be more of an amp thing than the guitar as well.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 11:10 am
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Ok thanks again everyones.
I got another power unit having 75db of noise filtration, and redo some of my devices connections. My main audio path improve pretty much. My FireFace 400 is going to a Mackie Big Knob->Bryston 2b->Monitors, and god I can turn the knob full and hear nothing from the speakers! So on that side I don't think that I can (wallet-wise) improve much.
I think that the MESA Express is a little bit quieter around the normal hum, but I'm not getting better around the noise. I tried different cables and straight to the amp either. I'm also having the same sensitivity moving the guitar in the room while DI.
I think that my room is not helping at all.
So, maybe I have to read here the many threads available around shielding? Is a shielding job is a waste of time and money?

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