truecam123
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Recently took my amp head to church and ran it through the mesa boogie cab clone using a balanced line out direct to the board. The hum coming out of the mains is crazy loud though. I run a small pedal board. If I turn my guitar volume all the down the hum goes away. This is the same whether I'm using a les paul or Strat. So does this mean the cause of the hum is the guitar since it disappears when the guitar volume is turned off?
I've tried all the trouble shooting techniques with no real relief. The one thing that I do notice is that I can touch a pedal jack or some other part of of the chain with my hand, and a lot of the humming will go away. Almost like my hand is acting like a ground. But I can't figure out how to translate using my hand as a ground into fixing my humming problems.
I've flipped the grounding switch on the cab clone and used a grounding adapter etc with no luck. The amp was recently checked out so I believe all the components are good.
I should mention that it does the loud humming thing while plugged into my home PA as well so I don't think it's unique to just playing it at the church (ie, dirty power, lights etc)
If I run directly into the amp, guitar to amp with no pedals, same issue.
Any thoughts?
I've tried all the trouble shooting techniques with no real relief. The one thing that I do notice is that I can touch a pedal jack or some other part of of the chain with my hand, and a lot of the humming will go away. Almost like my hand is acting like a ground. But I can't figure out how to translate using my hand as a ground into fixing my humming problems.
I've flipped the grounding switch on the cab clone and used a grounding adapter etc with no luck. The amp was recently checked out so I believe all the components are good.
I should mention that it does the loud humming thing while plugged into my home PA as well so I don't think it's unique to just playing it at the church (ie, dirty power, lights etc)
If I run directly into the amp, guitar to amp with no pedals, same issue.
Any thoughts?
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