I've had this problem, also in ungrounded houses. I went to batteries on those occasions and the problem went away.

Have you tried something simple like moving to another room?

-A

alex maiolo wrote:I've had this problem, also in ungrounded houses. I went to batteries on those occasions and the problem went away.

Have you tried something simple like moving to another room?

-A

New England to Texas is a definite downgrade.

I will try the batteries. Usually, I just pull them out of the loop if I really want to sound pretty.

Thanks.

Try cleaning your connectors - jacks, plugs, everything in the chain - with Deoxit or some other contact cleaner.

Bumpkins.

Ran into this problem tonight at practice. Plugging a guitar straight into an amp yielded AM news. [We stopped to hear the latest updates on the lost Boy Scout.]

This was only happening in one amplifier. We tried plugging it in different ways. It was that one particular amplifier.

What do I do?

sunspots, grounding, radio interference, shielding, and long stretches of cable.

usually one of those.

it is probably RFI on your guitar cables - that is the lowest level signal and most likely to be fucked with. if you have some old long runs of cable, get new cables and get them as short as possible. or you can get an anti-rfi donut. These are circular magnets that you wrap the guitar cable around to try and defeat RFI.

I used to get taxi radio bursts thru my amp. New and shorter cables fixed it.

My guess would be the instrument itself.

Are the strings grounded to the signal ground? Is the control cavity shielded with foil tape or something along those lines?

And the guitar cables. Are they properly shielded?

Any easy way to tell if the radio is being picked up by your pedal or by your guitar or your amp is to twist volume knobs. If the volume knob on your guitar has any effect on the loudness of the radio signal, then the problem is your guitar. If the volume on your guitar has no effect, but the volume on your amp does, then the problem is not your guitar, but is somewhere after the guitar in the signal chain, i.e. in the cable or the amp.

But yeah, the best solution, ultimately, is probably to get the hell outta Tex-ass. F'rehl, maign.

Thanks fellas. I'll check out the amp and cable tonight. I think in this instance it might have been the guy's guitar, which is not world-class but a Squire Tele. The cable's also probably not top shelf. [Scott: You win a big e-kiss from me, if you nailed it.]

What sort of cables cut this shit out without breaking the bank?