Completely eliminating hum

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I have a Peavey 6534+ head (stock tubes) with a Orange 4x12 loaded with Celestion v30's. I'm also using an Epiphone Les Paul Custom. (Stock pickups) I play with some high gain tones for a Metal band.

I've read A LOT about things to eliminate hum but I want to hear some more opinions.

Things about:

Power conditioners
Power supplies
Power regulators
Noise suppressors in the effects loop
Noise suppressors in the guitar signal chain
Cables
EQ's
Pedal signal chains
Pickups
Strings
Etc.

Let me know.
 
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dont run your gear on a circuit that has lights on a dimmer knob....it'll drive you nuts.

also, when my outside flood lights are on, they wreak havoc with hum.
 
The 5150 types are all pretty noisy. A good set of pickups and a decent noise suppressor will get rid of most of it. Also keep the pre gain as low as possible. Mine had way less noise with the pre around 3, and then hit it with a boost. Gain at 5 without a boost was way noisier.
 
noise gate through the loop will get rid of all the hiss....at a risk of changing your tone to some degree or another, pending which gate you use.
 
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