On a serious note, I chased a noise issue once for months. I couldn’t figure it out. I was unplugging the fridge, I was moving my setup around, I was changing light bulbs... turned out to be my laptop charger. If it was plugged into the same outlet as my amp it would cause noise through my rig.
Lol. Thanks so much. Maybe you can help the fella in the comments that is trying to tell me EMI is not made of electron action. I’m sorta kidding. I appreciate your comment. I have a pretty deep background in this as well. It’s very difficult to explain this stuff in a way that non technical people enjoy and understand, but that is as accurate as possible.
In most of recent chargers/power supplies/lights, there is no transformers, but diodes making DC from AC. Transformers I can actually see - microwave, fridge, and guitar amp. Noise is still there, even when microwave is turned of and fridge is in different loop. And touching strings by hand - grounds it. So I'd say mostly it is my amp and not only by air and electromagnetic waves, but unstable AC current.
My otherwise quiet rig hisses when i fret a note. stops when released. Any thoughts? Been watching your show for a long time now. Thanks for the great straight talk approach and info.
I had a Vox Super Beatle , and a hollow body Goya Rangemaster guitar, (unshielded), that I used, at a particular club, in Athens, Ohio. Whenever the police would get ready to come in the club, they would call in the stop. The RF from their call, would come through my amp. When this happened ,it was very audible. Being that Athens was, and is, a college town. There was , "allegedly" , some underage drinking going on , within the establishment. When, the calls would come thru, announcing their imminent arrival , the waitress and bartender would remove, any drinks or beer, from the juveniles....Thus avoiding any fines....(I think, that's why they kept us, as the house band).. lol This was wayyyyy back in 1967. I don't know ,if using a shielded instrument would have made a difference, with this amp....It (the amp) would, pick up a variety of RF signals. but I really didn't get, any sort of hum. I wonder why?
I know it may float over many peoples heads but short explanation about wave lengths / frequency might help people understand the correlation to wire length etc and why short wires in your guitar will not pick up the audible frequencies. For example WiFi is 2.4 or 5 GHz so tuned antenna's are very short (aka cm's or less) where as 50 / 60 Hz mains type "hum" requires alot longer tuned antenna's and hence why the coils in your pickup's "do" see those frequencies. I do not know why but I can never see / reach your "dylancontest.com" web site (based in UK). Just get a taking too long to respond type errors. Maybe you could publish a link below one of your future videos. Love the channel Dylan.
Interesting I completed electronics studies in College many moons ago so this was a nice refresher, I am sure you are going to talk about microphonic with pickups , and waxing, that would be a question to pose budget pickups and non-budget , waxed and not waxed,
EMI is mediated by photons (particles and waves, quantum yay), which are produced when electrons move through a wire and excite the EM field. Photons are the things that travel through the air and hit your guitar, exciting electrons in it. If electrons did it radio would be transmitted via by lightning.
New viewer, just found you channel, great stuff man. Question. I have an old set of pickups from 77 that have gone mildly microphonic. Will wax potting these pickups help that?
What if you are getting a lot of buzz/hum with modern filtertrons in a Gretsch? I mean... those are humbuckers right? They actually almost seem microphonic... but not sure what if that has to do with picking up hum.
If its a vintage guitar, you may have a old cold soldier joint(s) at one of the grounding points. Or one of the grounds may have come loose. Make sure there is a ground to the ground lug of the input jack, to the bridge, and the back of each pot. You may have to use a desoldiering brad or soldier sucker to remove old soldier. Soldier joints should be shiny, not dull. Just examine each connection one by one, take your time.
@@johnhowe4079 my first thought was maybe a grounding issue but i haven't looked too far into it yet. There is also no ground for the bridge/strings like you would have on a strat, but it has a hum even without strings on it
So, my cheap Squier Affinity Telecaster hums like I would expect it to when I hook it up to most of my amplifiers. However, when I plug it into my newly acquired Fender Mustang GTX 100, it's dead silent, no matter which pickup configuration I choose. Does the GTX's digital modeling thingamajig also filter out 50/60Hz hum? I haven't been able to find any documentation on the subject.
@@JoeKyser Well, if I engage both single coils on the Squier, all the amps go equally quiet, so it's definitely caused by the guitar. My only other electric guitar has humbuckers, and those are always quiet. This is very recognizable single coil 50Hz hum, but it simply vanishes on the GTX.
2 technical flaws in your video. 1- electrons bumping into one another is actually describing electric current in a wire. EM waves travel without particles which is why they travel through the vacuum of space and penetrate walls. 2- most hum picked up on guitar/amp is not radio waves, it is the stray magnetic fields in the vicinity. Small but important aspect to understand. Guitar pickups are effectively the secondary of a very poorly coupled transformer, not a 60Hz receiving antenna, which would need to be a couple miles long to be effective.
I'm sure I missed a video somewhere, but why is Dylan homeless right now? COVID-19? (My brother and his family are bouncing around Airbnb because they had a major home repair emergency that's keeping them mobile. I would rather have an RV or Airstream and move around the country, but he has 5 kids!)
Hi, I love the videos. Thank you for passing on your knowledge. I am constantly receiving a “This site can’t be reached” “dylancontest.com refused to connect” message whenever I try to go to the site. I would love to win that Les Paul!
I misspoke... when I said electrons, i meant Photons... I will mention a correction in the next video. thanks y'all for making me realize that.
I’m a photon engineer when I change out the light bulbs.
It hums because it doesn't know the words.
On a serious note, I chased a noise issue once for months. I couldn’t figure it out. I was unplugging the fridge, I was moving my setup around, I was changing light bulbs... turned out to be my laptop charger. If it was plugged into the same outlet as my amp it would cause noise through my rig.
As a retired engineer with an electrical and software background, I find your presentations to be excellent and enjoyable. Keep em coming!
Lol. Thanks so much. Maybe you can help the fella in the comments that is trying to tell me EMI is not made of electron action. I’m sorta kidding. I appreciate your comment. I have a pretty deep background in this as well. It’s very difficult to explain this stuff in a way that non technical people enjoy and understand, but that is as accurate as possible.
In most of recent chargers/power supplies/lights, there is no transformers, but diodes making DC from AC. Transformers I can actually see - microwave, fridge, and guitar amp. Noise is still there, even when microwave is turned of and fridge is in different loop. And touching strings by hand - grounds it. So I'd say mostly it is my amp and not only by air and electromagnetic waves, but unstable AC current.
This experience, I spoke of ,happened regularly.
My otherwise quiet rig hisses when
i fret a note. stops when released. Any thoughts? Been watching your show for a long time now. Thanks for the great straight talk approach and info.
They put a snake in the neck instead of a truss rod and it doesn't like you getting too close :-)
Check the grounding, its probably lost the contact. Is it when you fret or when you touch the strings?
Might be worth checking that the output jack is wired the right way round, that can cause a similar issue.
@@josearaujo8616 thanks for the reply.
@@TheBaconWizard Thanks, will check.
I had a Vox Super Beatle , and a hollow body Goya Rangemaster guitar, (unshielded), that I used, at a particular club, in Athens, Ohio. Whenever the police would get ready to come in the club, they would call in the stop. The RF from their call, would come through my amp. When this happened ,it was very audible. Being that Athens was, and is, a college town. There was , "allegedly" , some underage drinking going on , within the establishment. When, the calls would come thru, announcing their imminent arrival , the waitress and bartender would remove, any drinks or beer, from the juveniles....Thus avoiding any fines....(I think, that's why they kept us, as the house band).. lol This was wayyyyy back in 1967. I don't know ,if using a shielded instrument would have made a difference, with this amp....It (the amp) would, pick up a variety of RF signals. but I really didn't get, any sort of hum. I wonder why?
Thanks for becoming a member btw
You're welcome, man. And I finally figured out "how to enter"...lol
need your e-mail, man.
Another great video, can't wait for part 2!
Thanks Dylan. I'm trying to set up a (new for me) guitar, and these videos are spot on.
I know it may float over many peoples heads but short explanation about wave lengths / frequency might help people understand the correlation to wire length etc and why short wires in your guitar will not pick up the audible frequencies. For example WiFi is 2.4 or 5 GHz so tuned antenna's are very short (aka cm's or less) where as 50 / 60 Hz mains type "hum" requires alot longer tuned antenna's and hence why the coils in your pickup's "do" see those frequencies.
I do not know why but I can never see / reach your "dylancontest.com" web site (based in UK). Just get a taking too long to respond type errors. Maybe you could publish a link below one of your future videos.
Love the channel Dylan.
Interesting I completed electronics studies in College many moons ago so this was a nice refresher, I am sure you are going to talk about microphonic with pickups , and waxing, that would be a question to pose budget pickups and non-budget , waxed and not waxed,
Always check your power tubes! A lesson I learned the hard way. Easy fix, pita to diagnose!
Super interesting Dylan... Maybe you could build a Faraday cage and play in that?!
Love your location and the bright sunshine.
EMI is mediated by photons (particles and waves, quantum yay), which are produced when electrons move through a wire and excite the EM field. Photons are the things that travel through the air and hit your guitar, exciting electrons in it. If electrons did it radio would be transmitted via by lightning.
LIGHTNING LIGHTNING LIGHTNING
My guitar hums because it can’t whistle
Electromagnetic interference is caused by just that: electromagnetic waves, not electrons.
Electromagnetic waves? Made of what exactly? 🙄
@@DylanTalksTone No, electrons are not electromagnetic waves.
Oh I know, but you can’t have them without the interaction between electrons so.... lol never mind. Have a great day.
@@DylanTalksTone Electromagnetic radiation is photons.
@@ConvexSpade yes... i misspoke
Man! I can't wait for the next video. Don't make me wait, Dylan! (Hope I win a set of tele pickups. lol)
why does any body hum, or clink?
New viewer, just found you channel, great stuff man. Question. I have an old set of pickups from 77 that have gone mildly microphonic. Will wax potting these pickups help that?
Nevermind, lol, found your Quick Tips vid on it. Thanks!
Did Part II ever come out?
What if you are getting a lot of buzz/hum with modern filtertrons in a Gretsch? I mean... those are humbuckers right? They actually almost seem microphonic... but not sure what if that has to do with picking up hum.
Check your grounds
Please show us how to Dummy coil a p90 on a les paul and does it really work?
Need part 2! I'm trying to fix the hum on a vintage Kay guitar for a friend and I'm not really sure what to do about it yet.
If its a vintage guitar, you may have a old cold soldier joint(s) at one of the grounding points. Or one of the grounds may have come loose. Make sure there is a ground to the ground lug of the input jack, to the bridge, and the back of each pot. You may have to use a desoldiering brad or soldier sucker to remove old soldier. Soldier joints should be shiny, not dull. Just examine each connection one by one, take your time.
@@johnhowe4079 yup thats what I was going to say, check your grounds first
@@johnhowe4079 my first thought was maybe a grounding issue but i haven't looked too far into it yet. There is also no ground for the bridge/strings like you would have on a strat, but it has a hum even without strings on it
The one pickup asked the other, “what’s wrong, you sound weak and thin.”
The other replied, “I’m just going through a phase right now.”
So, my cheap Squier Affinity Telecaster hums like I would expect it to when I hook it up to most of my amplifiers. However, when I plug it into my newly acquired Fender Mustang GTX 100, it's dead silent, no matter which pickup configuration I choose. Does the GTX's digital modeling thingamajig also filter out 50/60Hz hum? I haven't been able to find any documentation on the subject.
How about other guitars? Do they not hum on the amps that make the Squire hum? Could be a noisy amp.
@@JoeKyser Well, if I engage both single coils on the Squier, all the amps go equally quiet, so it's definitely caused by the guitar. My only other electric guitar has humbuckers, and those are always quiet. This is very recognizable single coil 50Hz hum, but it simply vanishes on the GTX.
2 technical flaws in your video. 1- electrons bumping into one another is actually describing electric current in a wire. EM waves travel without particles which is why they travel through the vacuum of space and penetrate walls. 2- most hum picked up on guitar/amp is not radio waves, it is the stray magnetic fields in the vicinity. Small but important aspect to understand. Guitar pickups are effectively the secondary of a very poorly coupled transformer, not a 60Hz receiving antenna, which would need to be a couple miles long to be effective.
thanks for this. I was trying to figure out how to explain that better
I'm sure I missed a video somewhere, but why is Dylan homeless right now? COVID-19? (My brother and his family are bouncing around Airbnb because they had a major home repair emergency that's keeping them mobile. I would rather have an RV or Airstream and move around the country, but he has 5 kids!)
I thought that hum come on zen guitarist only.
Hi, I love the videos. Thank you for passing on your knowledge. I am constantly receiving a “This site can’t be reached” “dylancontest.com refused to connect” message whenever I try to go to the site. I would love to win that Les Paul!
I just checked. It’s working.
@@DylanTalksTone I tried again and was abled to access the site. Thank you!
You know Deepak Chopra is going to plagiarize this.
15min., too long, a condensed version I would have watched.
Perhaps, test out setting playback speed at 2x