Sometimes you want to kick yourself. I have spent the last hour frantically twiddling different knobs getting frustrated by the hum and noise on my new guitar. If I had turned my chair 90 degrees 90% of the noise goes away. Now standing up in the middle of the room gives me a gloriously clean signal. Great video, life saver, many thanks and new fan here
Bro keep calm. I know what it feels like. My birthday gift an audio interface did the same to me. I was about to return it but just rewiring the connections did the magic
hi Dan, Dan here. I've been dealing with terrible noise for 10 years on my home studio. Your video is very thoughtful and covers all bases. One day I'll find out the source of my noise! Thanks for the video.
Hi Dan, really appreciate this video response. I asked so me and my son can actually try record together without the nasty noise in our guitar tracks making it unusable. I will review the tips and tricks provided to reduce the noise. Many thanks
Very helpful; cheers man. I'm using the rec out on my BOSS Katana straight into my UR22 interface to record guitar/bass and yeah...it's silly noisy even when nothing played. Cheers for the tips!
I have 25k dollars or more in Apollo rack units, furman conditioners, mogami cables for mic and guitars, Friedman handwired amps etc... the highest money can buy in every category. Going to record for the first time and that amp noise is in the daw and tracking headphones and makes the entire process miserable. How in 2020 is there not a solution to record noise free
Right?!? I have a first class interface, preamp, mic and still can’t get rid of this damn buzz no matter if I mic the amp or go staging into the box. So frustrating.
I think a coiled-up signal cable is particularly great at picking up electromagnetic interference from transformers. I had that issue with a mic cable recently. The cable was way longer than I needed, so most of it was coiled up, and it was pretty close to a transformer that was powering a light. The noise was horrible, because it wasn't just a pretty little 60Hz sine wave. It was more like a 60Hz "slappy buzzy sound", with peaks all across the spectrum. My poor little EQ didn't stand a chance.
Sir I have a suggestion to remove noise 1. ''FL studio'' DAW provides Free plugins inside to drag the audio IN and remove the selected reoccuring noice 2. "Edison" plugin is to remove noise in FL studio 3. "NewTone" plugin it works like Melodyne in FL studio - reduse chirpy sounds played on acoustic guitar and more
An unrelated question...I have a song I wrote with a kind of odd chord progression. A A6 D7 C7 Bflat E. Since C7 is an irregular chord in the key of A how do I add that chord in when using smart piano or strings?
Rosby Duhart hi Rosby: while on a smart track, go to settings and click “edit chords”: you can then change a chord you haven’t used into one you need, using the selector wheels. Hope that helps. Might do a video on this as a few people have asked...
For me it was impedance mismatching. I was using an Alesis Effects unit with my guitar. But instead using a mixer I put my guitar straight into the effects unit. Sounded cleaner and better I suppose but it was too noisy. Unfortunately I noticed that too late. I wished somebody have told me. Without an impedance switcher it's not usable. Way too noisy. Specifically white noise. But now I use the effects box in my mixer and the guitar sounds lovely and not noisy anymore.
I get awful noise. Only really from guitar. Humbuckers, into warm audio preamp, into UR22, USB 2.0 to PC. Sounds like a heightened version of when you held your phone near it. High pitched Morse code.....Just bought a shielded USB cable with ferrite connections, a load of ferrite connections to dot around other cables, a DI box......coming tomorrow, hopefully it'll sort it out 😩
my pc is making my guitar hum, and the only option is for me to stand up and turn my back and play, and i have no room to move, like my chair hit the closet which is behind me while im sitting so thats how small my room is, and ive also tested to move my guitar towards the pc to see if its actually the pc causing this, and the noise/hum gets really loud when i face the guitar to my pc by inches distance, im trying to find a way to be able to play while sitting down on my desk, and my computer under the desk yet not having to deal with that noise
Great video although it baffles me how you've talked so much about how pedals can introduce noise in your sound but didn't mention there exists noise gate pedals for that exact reason. Minor omission but it'd be cool to know :)
Certainly-you’re right that you could put noise gates in the way, but these prevent the full dynamic range of the player from being heard/recorded. I did a live recording once where the engineer gated everything. Listening back to it was a nightmare!
Hello I have one problem if someone can help me please, I just bought Mooer ge200 and I connected it to my PC I download reaper and of course the ASIO driver. My problem is that everything works fine but the most of times when i play i heard an annoying sound and it will go off and after a little bit is coming again is maybe problem from ASIO driver ? The version is the 2.14 what do you think ? Btw I download audacity and I play with wasapi and it was fine without any issue but I want reaper cuase I need all the extra features like vst plugins you know what I mean ... What should I do for fixing it ? Thanks! (My guitar is Jackson js12)
Yeah this is my life lol. Get horrendous noise trying to record into Guitar rig software in a small room. I have to be like a few meters away to get rid of the noise or apply a heavy noise gate which kills the tone and sustain.
Hey Dan, thanks for your advice. I've been trying a bunch of trial/errors, until I've put 2 items in my signal chain: a Sentry Noise Gate from TC ( the only one that didn't suck sustain) and a buffer after the OD's and before the modulation pedals, to regain signal clarity. \m/
Sometimes you want to kick yourself. I have spent the last hour frantically twiddling different knobs getting frustrated by the hum and noise on my new guitar. If I had turned my chair 90 degrees 90% of the noise goes away. Now standing up in the middle of the room gives me a gloriously clean signal. Great video, life saver, many thanks and new fan here
Cheers James! Yes: mains hum has a lot to answer for, and as for old CRT displays...
Bro keep calm. I know what it feels like. My birthday gift an audio interface did the same to me. I was about to return it but just rewiring the connections did the magic
I feel like I just watched a BBC documentary production on guitar noise. You should be on tv my friend!
Took forever to find someone to explain this so clearly, cheers mate!
No it doesn't take forever. You can easily find here ua-cam.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/v-deo.html
I knew most of these things individually, but the way you explained it really helped put the puzzle pieces together. Thanks man!
Thank you for watching!
exactly the video I needed thank you for making this
hi Dan, Dan here.
I've been dealing with terrible noise for 10 years on my home studio.
Your video is very thoughtful and covers all bases.
One day I'll find out the source of my noise!
Thanks for the video.
thanks boss. needed this for an a level music tech exam next week :D
Hi Dan, really appreciate this video response. I asked so me and my son can actually try record together without the nasty noise in our guitar tracks making it unusable. I will review the tips and tricks provided to reduce the noise.
Many thanks
Very helpful; cheers man. I'm using the rec out on my BOSS Katana straight into my UR22 interface to record guitar/bass and yeah...it's silly noisy even when nothing played. Cheers for the tips!
Great vídeo man! just what I was looking for.
Great video, love the way that you explain things.
Brilliant video, many thanks!!
Thank you Dan - very helpful video!
Great video👌🏻🔥
Excellent explanation of our nemesis! Thanks man! Don't use cheap guitar cables.
Much help! Thank you!
Excellent video. Very helpful. Thanks.
This is gold!!❤️❤️🤘🏿🤘🏿
I have 25k dollars or more in Apollo rack units, furman conditioners, mogami cables for mic and guitars, Friedman handwired amps etc... the highest money can buy in every category. Going to record for the first time and that amp noise is in the daw and tracking headphones and makes the entire process miserable.
How in 2020 is there not a solution to record noise free
Right?!? I have a first class interface, preamp, mic and still can’t get rid of this damn buzz no matter if I mic the amp or go staging into the box. So frustrating.
Excellent video, thank you!
Straight to the point
I think a coiled-up signal cable is particularly great at picking up electromagnetic interference from transformers. I had that issue with a mic cable recently. The cable was way longer than I needed, so most of it was coiled up, and it was pretty close to a transformer that was powering a light. The noise was horrible, because it wasn't just a pretty little 60Hz sine wave. It was more like a 60Hz "slappy buzzy sound", with peaks all across the spectrum. My poor little EQ didn't stand a chance.
Sir I have a suggestion to remove noise
1. ''FL studio'' DAW provides Free plugins inside to drag the audio IN and remove the selected reoccuring noice
2. "Edison" plugin is to remove noise in FL studio
3. "NewTone" plugin it works like Melodyne in FL studio - reduse chirpy sounds played on acoustic guitar and more
It helped me a lot
Thanks.
Much helpful.. appreciate your work
thank you🙌🏾
Great tips!
An unrelated question...I have a song I wrote with a kind of odd chord progression. A A6 D7 C7 Bflat E. Since C7 is an irregular chord in the key of A how do I add that chord in when using smart piano or strings?
Rosby Duhart hi Rosby: while on a smart track, go to settings and click “edit chords”: you can then change a chord you haven’t used into one you need, using the selector wheels. Hope that helps. Might do a video on this as a few people have asked...
That’s a cool chord progression by the way!
Dan Baker sounds great on acoustic guitar... Trying to figure percussions and bass line...Been enjoying your channel btw
For me it was impedance mismatching. I was using an Alesis Effects unit with my guitar. But instead using a mixer I put my guitar straight into the effects unit. Sounded cleaner and better I suppose but it was too noisy. Unfortunately I noticed that too late. I wished somebody have told me. Without an impedance switcher it's not usable. Way too noisy. Specifically white noise.
But now I use the effects box in my mixer and the guitar sounds lovely and not noisy anymore.
I get awful noise. Only really from guitar. Humbuckers, into warm audio preamp, into UR22, USB 2.0 to PC. Sounds like a heightened version of when you held your phone near it. High pitched Morse code.....Just bought a shielded USB cable with ferrite connections, a load of ferrite connections to dot around other cables, a DI box......coming tomorrow, hopefully it'll sort it out 😩
Thank you very helpful! :)
Thank you!!
my pc is making my guitar hum, and the only option is for me to stand up and turn my back and play, and i have no room to move, like my chair hit the closet which is behind me while im sitting so thats how small my room is, and ive also tested to move my guitar towards the pc to see if its actually the pc causing this, and the noise/hum gets really loud when i face the guitar to my pc by inches distance, im trying to find a way to be able to play while sitting down on my desk, and my computer under the desk yet not having to deal with that noise
Have you solved this? Cus I share your struggle but don’t know the solution.
Very helpful
Great video although it baffles me how you've talked so much about how pedals can introduce noise in your sound but didn't mention there exists noise gate pedals for that exact reason. Minor omission but it'd be cool to know :)
Certainly-you’re right that you could put noise gates in the way, but these prevent the full dynamic range of the player from being heard/recorded. I did a live recording once where the engineer gated everything. Listening back to it was a nightmare!
Hello I have one problem if someone can help me please, I just bought Mooer ge200 and I connected it to my PC I download reaper and of course the ASIO driver. My problem is that everything works fine but the most of times when i play i heard an annoying sound and it will go off and after a little bit is coming again is maybe problem from ASIO driver ? The version is the 2.14 what do you think ? Btw I download audacity and I play with wasapi and it was fine without any issue but I want reaper cuase I need all the extra features like vst plugins you know what I mean ...
What should I do for fixing it ? Thanks!
(My guitar is Jackson js12)
Yeah this is my life lol. Get horrendous noise trying to record into Guitar rig software in a small room. I have to be like a few meters away to get rid of the noise or apply a heavy noise gate which kills the tone and sustain.
Hey Dan, thanks for your advice. I've been trying a bunch of trial/errors, until I've put 2 items in my signal chain: a Sentry Noise Gate from TC ( the only one that didn't suck sustain) and a buffer after the OD's and before the modulation pedals, to regain signal clarity. \m/
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good post. Your room is cluttered, just like mine :)
If anyone could tell me, does a guitar pc setup need to be grounded
Why is no one doing an acoustic guitar video we exits too!
This is so me now lol
It s because yellow/green thread is not plugged to the ground...sorry i am not an english native...
get a better compressor lol..