Members CarmenJuandeago Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 pickups? like hi-gain strat single coil sounds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrbrown49 Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 Clean power, careful positioning, and muting out the noise during rests is a good start. They always have and always will buzz, but usually it can be tamed too a tolerable level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrbrown49 Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 ...and filtering out the unused high and low frequencies can take out some noise as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members twotimingpete Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 noise gate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members csm Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 Answer: they didn't. Listen to Hendrix's Come On (from Electric Ladyland). During the stoptime bits you can hear his amp humbuzzin'. Actually, it wasn't a serious problem in studios until fuzzboxes and heavy distortion became popular in the '60s and -- with the exception of Hendrix and Jeff Beck in his early Esquire-wielding Yardbirds days -- most '60s players who used fuzz played HB-loaded Gibsons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members strtdv Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 Avoiding fluorescent lights? TBH I don't use any noise gates or anything similar at all, I just make sure my guitars are properly grounded and that I'm not near a fluorescent light or CRT (or a computer at all, the hard drive spinning can cause noise), and I'm fine, even with pretty high gain pedals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ralph onion Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 Back in the early 60's using Fender Jaguars and Band Master amps we used to pick up police radio frequencies, made for some interesting recordings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mister natural Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 hi-jack : are "noiseless" pickups really noiseless ????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Curling Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 they didnt. it is what it is. they even use to listen to music on scratchy records. some people still find it charming. i am one of these people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 's mel gibson Posted April 7, 2010 Members Share Posted April 7, 2010 Ah yes, the charm of listening to a needle ride through the grooves of a vinyl record. Snap, pop and the intro to the first song on the outer edge , skipping within the first 10 seconds. Who notices a buzzing guitar when you got all of this other {censored} happening? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lp_junkie Posted April 7, 2010 Members Share Posted April 7, 2010 They used position 2 and 4 on the 5 way switch, turned the middle pickup around, but mostly they just lived with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ashasha Posted April 7, 2010 Members Share Posted April 7, 2010 They didn't have electricity back then to induce the 60Hz hum into their electric guitars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jim_Soloway Posted April 7, 2010 Members Share Posted April 7, 2010 hi-jack : are "noiseless" pickups really noiseless ????? I use a lot of the DiMarzio hum canceling pickups and they're at least as close or closer to noiseless than a typical humbucker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Josh S Posted April 7, 2010 Members Share Posted April 7, 2010 You'd be surprised just how quiet it's possible to be with single coils. I regularly gig out with some pretty high gain stuff and some cranked fuzz pedals - and I'm using single coils all the way to the bank - and I rarely have a problem. Most times I get just about zero hum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Johnny Z Posted April 7, 2010 Members Share Posted April 7, 2010 No problem, they didn't use CFL lights and TV monitors. They often used head phones and put the amps far away from them or in another room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bob411 Posted April 7, 2010 Members Share Posted April 7, 2010 No problem, they didn't use CFL lights and TV monitors. They often used head phones and put the amps far away from them or in another room. Noise canceling headphones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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