HELP!!! White noise...

AaronSoFat

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hey guys.. i'm getting a lot of white noise from my drive pedals. is it because my adapter isn't properly grounded? or is there a way to ground my pedals so that i don't get that irritating hum to it? or could i just get an EHX hum debugger? much help is needed. thanks.
 
before spending money unnecessary, it would be best to determine whats the actual problem, whether is it hum or white noise(hissing like)

Both are different sounding and could be from different sources

hum, most of the time, can be from pickup, grounding issues(geetar, pedals, adaptor etc) or near to source of interference that resulted in hum when playing the instrument near(a possiblity, but in local context, might not be that often)

white noise/hiss can be from cascading drive pedals together when our instrument signal get push into distortion, boosting distortion, whatever inherent hiss/noise already present, will also be multiplied into audible range and at times irritating noise source.

worst come to worst, isolate each and every of your pedal, plug in geetar, try out one by one, with battery, with adaptor, slowly adding one pedal at a time, plug in instrument, turn up volume and listen which part of the chain actually result in the problem.

other than that, a balance of gain level among all the drive pedals(especially if like doing high gain thingy, cascading drive pedal thingy) should be done/readjust as well, togther with the level on the amp.

adding more gain to the sound while might be shiok, its also a way to get loud hiss/hum which might not be too audible before, into irritating level.
 
For a minute there, I thought you had some supernatural thingy going on with your guitar... White noise... I believe they used this term for the dead speaking through your radio or phone... maybe they do amps now...

Brrrr... 7th month somemore...

But +1 to patheinraindropmoe, he's right. Check out the source by plugging/unplugging every single thing till you find the source... or risk spending a lot more...
 
actually white noise can be a useful sound source as frequency response tester for hi fi, tv and stuff.

for analog synth, its used as a sound source for sample and hold feature. Theres circuit which can do white, pink and brown noise etc. Each different colour has its own characteristic.

heh, we can apply geetar modulation effect to it as well, flanger, phaser to get wind howling sound or tremolo/sequenced filters etc to get a rhythmic sound, which can be useful to throw into music as textural colouring.

hell yeah, even hum can be put to good use as long as theres context build around it
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oh, for white noise, theres even therapeutic effect..haha, i have never heard the cd before though, only thing i tried was listening to circuit hiss/noise which, did made me happy and trippy, especially at loud volume...

http://www.purewhitenoise.com/usewhitenoise.html

but i guess in the context of this thread, its more of irritation than calming though, haha
 
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Wahahaha... you're like an encyclopedia... hahaha...

Anyway, I would think peepz would just check their whole setup when these sorta things happen... Wonder why the same questions keep popping out...
 
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