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  • January 31, 2009 at 12:41 am #77662
    JordanLikesToRock
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    I know the big muff is a really high gain pedal, but mine seems to have an awful lot amount of hum. Im not sure if this is normal or not. When playing you cant notice it, but if I was to roll the volume all of the way down on my guitar so nothing gets through the hum from BMPTW is really loud. Is this normal?

    January 31, 2009 at 12:46 am #92305
    electro-melx
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    Both my guitars do this (I don’t own a TW yet and I don’t believe it’s anything to do with the pedal) when you turn the volume right down on the guitar I don’t think it’s the same as ‘not having a signal going into the pedal’ take the input cable out of the pedal and see if it still does it…….I suspect that it won’t and it’s your guitar humming and the pedal amplifying it, not the pedal humming itself.

    January 31, 2009 at 12:48 am #92306
    JordanLikesToRock
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    Just tried it. It has the same amount of hum either way… :(

    January 31, 2009 at 12:59 am #92308
    electro-melx
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    oh ok!!!!

    without hearing it, it’s difficult to say…wait for other peeps who have one to chime in. did you get it locally? you could pop back and compare it to another?

    January 31, 2009 at 1:03 am #92309
    JordanLikesToRock
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    Maybe I will record a sample of the hum later. There are like no guitar shops with anything worth buying within a 100 mile radius of where I live, so I get everything off the internet. The whole reason I got worried about this is because when I got my graphic fuzz I found out that it has almost zero hum when I do this, even though it is a lot lower gain pedal Im still worried.

    January 31, 2009 at 1:06 am #92310
    electro-melx
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    cool, it’s 1am here so I’m off to bed…hopefully you’ll be sorted out by someone by the time I wake up.

    January 31, 2009 at 1:11 am #92311
    JordanLikesToRock
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    Thanks for trying! :wave:

    January 31, 2009 at 7:15 am #92325
    julian
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    interesting

    The Big Muff with Tone Wicker is definitely the noisiest of the XO Big Muffs, but it shouldn’t be so noisy to the point where it would be a problem.

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