Mexican music coming through my amp

Gsxrbusa · Sep 13, 2010

Playing some metal yesterday and quit for a second to hear some la cuca ra cha coming through my Dragon. WTF? change from high gain to low and clean then it goes away. I amrunning an Egnater head switcher so I can play 4 heads without making cable changes. So, this is no easy task narrowing it down without disconnecting everyfrickinthing. First I try speaker cables then intrument cable with no change. I disconnect the amp from everything (headswitcher, pedal board) and it operates fine. Eventually narrow it down to something on the pedal board. After disconnecting everything one at a time I find it is my Maxon Phaser causing the problem. Wierd thing is that this pedal will not power up from my filtered power brick thing, it requires a straight nine volt supply from a different source. WTF is wrong with this thing?......................................anyone want to buy a Maxon Phaser? As a bonus you will recieve free Mexican tunes in the background. :doh:

shredi knight · Sep 13, 2010

Just be glad it didn't sound like this:

Jimmie · Sep 13, 2010

Gsxrbusa":2axblitr said:
anyone want to buy a Maxon Phaser? As a bonus you will recieve free Mexican tunes in the background.

Will it also do Estaban?
:thumbsup:

Capulin Overdrive · Sep 13, 2010

probably not the phaser itself, but coming from the 110 power source.

we had a little mini jam, with most of the amps were through a power conditioner type doohickie and they were clean. but the ones we plugged straight to the socket were picking up a baseball game! :lol:

could be full of shit, but that's my guess.

glpg80 · Sep 13, 2010

its the lack of a grid resistor in the front of the amplifier causing AM (amplitude modulation) waves in the air to be amplified. your guitar then acts like a simple antenna. you wont pick up FM (frequency modulation) waves because the pickup magnetics and overall wave transmission type is incapable of receiving this frequency band.

if you do have any value resistor there, then it is too small.

if it was your ENGL - they are notorious for leaving out this resistor for tonal reasons, the side effect is that you will experience what you are hearing.

glassjaw7 · Sep 13, 2010

This very thing happened to me when I was in 10th grade playing my first "real" show in front of a couple thousand people. Mexican AM radio started playing through my Carvin MTS half-stack. :no:

Embarrassing and kinda funny too. :lol:

Gsxrbusa · Sep 13, 2010

shredi knight":2gfc7v0r said:
Just be glad it didn't sound like this:

Thank God it is not that crap! :thumbsdown:

Jimmie":2gfc7v0r said:
Gsxrbusa":2gfc7v0r said:

anyone want to buy a Maxon Phaser? As a bonus you will recieve free Mexican tunes in the background.

Click to expand...

Will it also do Estaban?

Maybe. Shit I might keep it if it makes me sound like that dude. Hehe.

Gsxrbusa · Sep 13, 2010

Capulin Overdrive":3imsgpi9 said:
probably not the phaser itself, but coming from the 110 power source.

we had a little mini jam, with most of the amps were through a power conditioner type doohickie and they were clean. but the ones we plugged straight to the socket were picking up a baseball game!

could be full of shit, but that's my guess.

Everything is going through my power conditioner :dunno:

glpg80":3imsgpi9 said:
its the lack of a grid resistor in the front of the amplifier causing AM (amplitude modulation) waves in the air to be amplified. your guitar then acts like a simple antenna. you wont pick up FM (frequency modulation) waves because the pickup magnetics and overall wave transmission type is incapable of receiving this frequency band.

if you do have any value resistor there, then it is too small.

if it was your ENGL - they are notorious for leaving out this resistor for tonal reasons, the side effect is that you will experience what you are hearing.

Why is the Phaser the only pedal causing the noise? Played all amps tonight (minus Engl) for a couple hours with no problems as long as I did not put the phaser back in. :confused:

Gsxrbusa · Sep 13, 2010

glassjaw7":16mi5qxt said:
This very thing happened to me when I was in 10th grade playing my first "real" show in front of a couple thousand people. Mexican AM radio started playing through my Carvin MTS half-stack. Embarrassing and kinda funny too.

Damn man, that sucks! :aww:

Jimmie · Sep 13, 2010

Gsxrbusa":2xhqtqzc said:
glassjaw7":2xhqtqzc said:

This very thing happened to me when I was in 10th grade playing my first "real" show in front of a couple thousand people. Mexican AM radio started playing through my Carvin MTS half-stack. Embarrassing and kinda funny too.

Click to expand...

Damn man, that sucks!

unless you're Menudo, then it would make perfect sense...
:lol:

Jimmie

Ventura · Sep 13, 2010

glassjaw7":1gevpvqj said:
This very thing happened to me when I was in 10th grade playing my first "real" show in front of a couple thousand people. Mexican AM radio started playing through my Carvin MTS half-stack. Embarrassing and kinda funny too.

Reminds me of Nigel Tufnel doing his schtick with Spinal Tap at the navel base... :hys:

V.

roadifier · Sep 13, 2010

Same thing happended to me yesterday when I was playing through my dragon. I had it powered by a power conditioner, and all that was with my amp was a guitar. Sometimes your guitar just acts as an antenna.

Jimmie · Sep 13, 2010

roadifier":39tcah30 said:
Same thing happended to me yesterday when I was playing through my dragon. I had it powered by a power conditioner, and all that was with my amp was a guitar. Sometimes your guitar just acts as an antenna.

the decimator didn't sheild it? Pedal or rack?

petejt · Sep 13, 2010

haha that's awesome!

The most I ever got was my guitar picking up the audio coming from my laptop speakers then being amplified through the amp.

roadifier · Sep 13, 2010

Jimmie":gvqjdu1j said:
roadifier":gvqjdu1j said:

Same thing happended to me yesterday when I was playing through my dragon. I had it powered by a power conditioner, and all that was with my amp was a guitar. Sometimes your guitar just acts as an antenna.

Click to expand...

the decimator didn't sheild it? Pedal or rack?

I wasnt using a decimator, I had just picked up the amp, and was trying out for yhe first time.

Jimmie · Sep 13, 2010

roadifier":2gmx7t5c said:
Jimmie":2gmx7t5c said:

roadifier":2gmx7t5c said:

Same thing happended to me yesterday when I was playing through my dragon. I had it powered by a power conditioner, and all that was with my amp was a guitar. Sometimes your guitar just acts as an antenna.

Click to expand...

the decimator didn't sheild it? Pedal or rack?

Click to expand...

I wasnt using a decimator, I had just picked up the amp, and was trying out for yhe first time.

ah, seen the list of your gear and figured it was in the equation...

droptrd · Sep 13, 2010

Ive gotten Korean talk radio on mine a few times :lol:

If becomes a big problem and you're sure its your guitar, try soldering a 10pf cap across the output jack. its its not enuff try going to a higher value. Id guess that anything after 50pf would start choking of the tone of the guitar so id stay under that. Ive never personally tried this though. Just read about it a bunch.

MYLILSS · Sep 14, 2010

shredi knight":q2cnxni1 said:
Just be glad it didn't sound like this:

not to like go off subject, but what the fuk was that :no:

roadifier · Sep 14, 2010

shredi knight":upzhh44u said:
Just be glad it didn't sound like this:

Its like a mexican attack attack :aww:

glpg80 · Sep 14, 2010

a mexican attack attack? damn, glad i did not click the link then :lame:

as for the phaser - it does it on all amplifiers you own? phasers have a unity gain of 1 where internal feedback is allowed in order to get the desired effect. could be how the guitar is wired on top of the phaser design which is the only pedal allowing the AM frequency to pass into the amplifier at a lower buffered frequency which you will hear regardless of the grid's resistor value.

next time it happens unplug the phaser and see if it goes away, or turn the phaser effect down and see if goes away. id also check your guitar's wiring just to make sure.

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