Radio signals in my tone?

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Ok so I'm sure you guys have heard of this. You get some radio signal of a station in like Bosnia or something. Anyway the easiest station kind of messes with my tone. There is slight radio signal when I'm not using pedals and the tones great. However when I have the board plugged in my tone gets a little fizzy and I can hear some random station clearly. My signal chain is an goes from guitar to bad horsey 2 wah the newest version. A mxr Micro chorus followed by a bad monkey and an isp decimator.
I'm using a gator powered pedal board with the gator power supply. I will post a picture tommorow but in my last band to cut down on cable issues. So I have most of the cable and the AC adapter all hidden under my board so maybe that's why there's so much noise?
 
I would try a different power supply or cables. Or maybe it is a preamp tube..

Does this happen with different guitars?
 
so is receiving an outside signal the same, or opposite, reason that might cause your signal to be broadcast to the outside?
 
I had the same exact problem 20 years ago and it turns out it was my guitar cable. I would absolutely try using different cables and see if that helps.
 
I get the same thing on the other side of OH when I use good cables and, especially, have a wah in line. Literally different stations by moving the cable around...aaaand...also different at different buildings (with same cables/wah).
 
Do you have any cords in a coil ?
Sometimes that will act like a antenna.
 
For me, back when I had that problem in my old apartment, it was related to the power supply. Plugged the VH4 and pedalboard into one outlet, no problems; another, and i was getting quiet radio signal. Drove me nuts until i figured it out. Haven't had issues since I moved, but I also upgraded from a DC brick to a Trex fuel tank, so that probably helped too! Do you have an isolated power supply?
 
brianiac5150":3mesxbps said:
I get the same thing on the other side of OH when I use good cables and, especially, have a wah in line. Literally different stations by moving the cable around...aaaand...also different at different buildings (with same cables/wah).
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It's Ohio. I left there 25 years ago, and haven't had any radio interference since. You should move.
 
I did change out the cable to the amp and that helped a ton however still getting a faint signal this is a picture under my board do you think this might be part of it lol
 

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Funny, I had this problem with a Tubescreamer. Other pedals, no problem.

Still using those shit Duncan Designed pickups? That could be the problem too. Try a different guitar. See if it goes away.

If not, like I said, move out of Ohio.
 
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