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Post by wiz on Jun 12, 2022 21:23:48 GMT -6
I am about to sell my (try at least) VOX AC30 head and 2 X 12 cab.
I turned it on to check everything is still good....
getting a ticking sound with no guitar connected....hmmmmmm
First thought as all guitarists would, f*ck.... tube?
Anyways... luckily I didn't have to pull the head apart to get to the tubes... its a shit fight and whoever designed it needs to burn in hell....
I had moved my airport wireless router at one point, and put it on top of the amp.... da huh!!!
as soon as I moved it away... ticking noise gone...
trap for young players...
LOL
cheers
Wiz
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Post by hadaja on Jun 12, 2022 23:39:15 GMT -6
Funny stuff.
I remember doing a vocal recording recently in a cramped space with a large hum and was pulling my hair out to find the hum only to realise the preamp power cord was wrapped around the mic xlr cable . Homer Simpson - Doh
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Post by jerrypbury on Jun 13, 2022 1:28:35 GMT -6
I once had a ticking in a guitar amp and realized the guitar pickups were amplifying my mechanical watch!😁
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Post by EmRR on Jun 13, 2022 7:00:46 GMT -6
I’m close enough to a tower to get ticking in some amps.
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Post by svart on Jun 13, 2022 7:07:07 GMT -6
Almost 30 years ago was playing guitar during a thunderstorm and lightning hit just outside the house on the side where the ground rod was. The shock I got from the guitar made my hands tingle for a couple days. I never touch anything in the studio during a thunderstorm to this day..
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Post by michaelcleary on Jun 13, 2022 21:43:23 GMT -6
Almost 30 years ago was playing guitar during a thunderstorm and lightning hit just outside the house on the side where the ground rod. The shock I got from the guitar made my hands tingle for a couple days. I never touch anything in the studio during a thunderstorm to this day.. I did a tour of prisons in Ct over 30 years ago. It was a thunder storm and lightning hit close. I played barefoot with a strat and had my mouth on the mic. Needless to say I got zapped and I saw the blue light. Switched to emgs after that and never got zapped again. |
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Post by stratboy on Jun 14, 2022 11:14:01 GMT -6
I get a ticking sound sometimes when I put my phone too close to certain pieces of gear.
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Post by stratboy on Jun 14, 2022 11:18:40 GMT -6
Almost 30 years ago was playing guitar during a thunderstorm and lightning hit just outside the house on the side where the ground rod. The shock I got from the guitar made my hands tingle for a couple days. I never touch anything in the studio during a thunderstorm to this day.. I did a tour of prisons in Ct over 30 years ago. It was a thunder storm and lightning hit close. I played barefoot with a strat and had my mouth on the mic. Needless to say I got zapped and I saw the blue light. Switched to emgs after that and never got zapped again. Gonna hijack the thread for a sec. I played a 1 hr set at a medium security prison in CA. For 900 guys. Easily the most depressing place I have ever been. Back to the original topic! |
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Post by raddistribution on Jun 14, 2022 11:47:01 GMT -6
I once had a ticking in a guitar amp and realized the guitar pickups were amplifying my mechanical watch!😁 learned that same lesson the hard way. |
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Post by michaelcleary on Jun 14, 2022 15:02:31 GMT -6
I did a tour of prisons in Ct over 30 years ago. It was a thunder storm and lightning hit close. I played barefoot with a strat and had my mouth on the mic. Needless to say I got zapped and I saw the blue light. Switched to emgs after that and never got zapped again. Gonna hijack the thread for a sec. I played a 1 hr set at a medium security prison in CA. For 900 guys. Easily the most depressing place I have ever been. Back to the original topic! Oh I have a couple of harrowing stories. One gig where we played in a library at a prison, we found ourselves alone with the inmates while packing up. One guy came up and bragged about how many people he killed and how he wouldn’t mind adding a few more. Good times. |
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Post by svart on Jun 14, 2022 17:58:38 GMT -6
I get a ticking sound sometimes when I put my phone too close to certain pieces of gear. The carrier frequency might be in the 600MHz to 2.4GHz range but the packets it sends are in 200Hz intervals, which is why you hear a ticking noise. |
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Post by the other mark williams on Jun 14, 2022 22:17:20 GMT -6
Almost 30 years ago was playing guitar during a thunderstorm and lightning hit just outside the house on the side where the ground rod. The shock I got from the guitar made my hands tingle for a couple days. I never touch anything in the studio during a thunderstorm to this day.. I did a tour of prisons in Ct over 30 years ago. It was a thunder storm and lightning hit close. I played barefoot with a strat and had my mouth on the mic. Needless to say I got zapped and I saw the blue light. Switched to emgs after that and never got zapped again. So did you start wearing shoes?  |
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Post by michaelcleary on Jun 15, 2022 10:22:55 GMT -6
I did a tour of prisons in Ct over 30 years ago. It was a thunder storm and lightning hit close. I played barefoot with a strat and had my mouth on the mic. Needless to say I got zapped and I saw the blue light. Switched to emgs after that and never got zapped again. So did you start wearing shoes?  Nope, once I got EMGs, which are low impedance and not grounded, I was good to go. |
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Post by peterhess on Jun 18, 2022 6:10:32 GMT -6
I did a tour of prisons in Ct over 30 years ago. It was a thunder storm and lightning hit close. I played barefoot with a strat and had my mouth on the mic. Needless to say I got zapped and I saw the blue light. Switched to emgs after that and never got zapped again. Gonna hijack the thread for a sec. I played a 1 hr set at a medium security prison in CA. For 900 guys. Easily the most depressing place I have ever been. Back to the original topic! I’ve played maybe a dozen concerts at Sing Sing in the last 15 years and they’re the best audience I’ve ever played for, no exceptions. |
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Post by stratboy on Jun 18, 2022 15:45:59 GMT -6
Gonna hijack the thread for a sec. I played a 1 hr set at a medium security prison in CA. For 900 guys. Easily the most depressing place I have ever been. Back to the original topic! I’ve played maybe a dozen concerts at Sing Sing in the last 15 years and they’re the best audience I’ve ever played for, no exceptions. Totally agree about the audience. They loved us. But the prison itself was a dark and depressing place. |
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Post by askomiko on Jun 19, 2022 0:38:24 GMT -6
Small club, standing on the stage, my playing spot (guitar) is very close behind a big PA stack. I struggle with feedback from hell, altough my stage volume was low. Bigass loudspeakers can induce magnetic feedback into guitar pickups, the sound pressure itself wasn't a problem behind the speakers, just the close proximity and magnetic field directly. It took a while to realize what was happening, all solved by taking two steps back. Doh
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