gearandguitars wrote:Setting up a small studio in Echo Park and getting Radio Zion through the amps... suggestions?Most likely, you have something lacking in your electrical grounding scheme. You need to hire a dude who knows a lot about radio/tv/recording studio electrical wiring to check out your space, or move away from the radio broadcast antennae.

Try to isolate the problem and provide more information. RFI can be easy to fix, or nearly impossible. Like are you getting industrial motor noise, lighting noise (from your own dimmers?), broadcast ... etc? You'd kinda want to know what you have to fix.Another source is bad silicon in electronics. A partially damaged transistor can cause a lot of problems ... so like if you're only hearing the rf from a mixer you might try other arrangements and see if it's the mixer itself acting as an RF discriminator.

DIY Faraday cage?

ldopa\_chicago wrote:Burn incense and pray before every session.No, but seriously. Do all of the amps have 3 prong power cords with proper chassis grounding? Decent cables? Guitars with string grounds? I'd start there.Also, I'm sure you've tried the guitars direct to the amps, but wah pedals (and some fuzz face types) are notorious for introducing RFI issues - even when they are in bypass (if it isn't true bypass).

His description does note he is getting actual radio interference. i.e. he can hear radio programming.

I have nothing to add about RFI, but this was the first time I visited myspace in a while, and I have no idea how they made even worse than it already was.

ldopa\_chicago wrote:Using the aforementioned Jax Fuzz-Wah, I recorded a pretty amazing solo with radio. Right before the solo starts there was some quiet feedback and a voice come on and says, "It is a planetary system and we must destroy them. We must destroy them." Couldn't have done that if I tried.This is amazing. Must hear.

ldopa\_chicago wrote:endofanera wrote:ldopa\_chicago wrote:Using the aforementioned Jax Fuzz-Wah, I recorded a pretty amazing solo with radio. Right before the solo starts there was some quiet feedback and a voice come on and says, "It is a planetary system and we must destroy them. We must destroy them." Couldn't have done that if I tried.This is amazing. Must hear.Ah jeez. Turn out he says, "It is a planetary system and we must invade it. We must invade it." but still.Please excuse the terrible recording and the even more terrible drumming. It was just a scratch track and I am no drummer.http://www.myspace.com/necrotruckerThe song is called Bid Dead Waltz. The solo starts at the 1:20 mark. For the record, I had never heard or heard of Maggot Brain when I wrote this song. There is also a little bit more radio at the very end of the song. I believe it says, "And and the problem is it cannot be explained by psychiatry or psychology..."That is fantastic.