No ground reference in my new home studio!

[RectoStudioGuy]

So, my equipment arrived a couple of weeks ago here in Guam. I've finally begun to start setting up the studio...which fortunately is nearly completely separate from the rest of the house. Upon energizing my rig for the first time in two I discover the hideousness that is hiss, hum, and other unmetionables...not good!

 

[krcassid]

Not enough detail here to give you an intelligent answer. You could have a myriad of problems causing noise. However, the most obvious, which I think most of us struggle with, are the PUPs in your guitar. If a single coil (IE standard strat...) I get a ton of noise in a perfectly grounded studio environment. If you aren't using noisy single coils, start with your cable to your amp and move down the chain, removing things 1 at a time until you find the culprit. Ground loop or bad cables are high probabilities. Seems obvious to many but make sure there are no rheostats or EMI-type interference sources (IE computer monitor) in close proximity.

This is just a start.

 

[RectoStudioGuy]

There has been no change in my rig, guitars (EMG loaded), cables (Geaorge L's, Mogami), etc. so I'm relatively confident that the noise is not from within and this issue did not exist prior to arriving on island. The E/E in me is currently researching the electrical system of the house.

 

[SonicProvocateur]

A similar situation occurred setting up in our studio B. Our primary studio was noise and hiss free, but the secondary location had a terrible old fuse box that would make the lights go out when you would plug some amps/pedals in (fried my vintage electric mistress OPAMP!!!) and bad wiring from mice chewing at them in the walls. It's definitely something you wanna get fixed. There will be noise everywhere and if the fuse box or wiring is bad its something not even heavy noise gates can protect from blown amps and hissing in the mic's...plus you wanna protect your gear!

 

[RectoStudioGuy]

Right! Protect my stuff is first...esp. being that getting gear here is quite a challenge in of itself. No mice in the walls though since they're made of solid concrete. (typhoon proof) But I am in the process of chasing all of the electrics down.

 

[Steve@Russo]

plug a power strip into a hum x

 

[RectoStudioGuy]

plug a power strip into a hum x

Well, I'm not sure that it's actually a loop. I actually believe it to be more of a weak reference, but I'll get to the bottom of the issue by the end of the holiday weekend.