RE: Line6 loopers

[goddard.duncan@mtvne.com]

 >>15750 Hz 
Yeah, that's gotta be what I'm hearing.  Any shielding tips folks? <<

 

 

 

the crap that comes out of tv's (and I'm speaking of the EM radiation, not the content) gets everywhere and guitars can only avoid picking it up when fitted with decent humbuckers. unfortunately, this rather limits what you can do with the guitar....

one idea, though, and not a new one by any means, is to adopt the alembic trick of using a dummy pickup to do the humbucking. this would have to be carefully level matched with whatever combination of real pickups you happen to be using.

 

there is probably a market for something that automatically performs noise-cancellation in this manner, like these noise-cancelling headphones that you can get. the shash that you're catching from the tv sets is pretty omnidirectional.

 

but you could start by finding an old single-coil pickup, which you could glue underneath the scratchplate somewhere. to be effective, it ought to be in the same plane as the other pickups, and roughly the same impedance. take out the polepieces and wire it through a pull-switch pot, so you can fine-tune the phase and balance.

 

alternatively, you could work on the proprietors to switch to plasma screens..... or set up in some sort of metal cage and run a ground wire. you could have a sign on the front: "don't feed the looper- beer only".

 

duncan.  

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