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  • April 3, 2009 at 5:19 am #78001
    freshchops
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    Should it go right after the guitar out? Maybe guitar/ compressor/ Debugger? or is it useful after a pedalboard?

    What it you have an ABY splitter, could right before the splitter, which then y’s to the amps?

    April 3, 2009 at 6:55 am #95187
    richoz
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    Should it go right after the guitar out? Maybe guitar/ compressor/ Debugger? or is it useful after a pedalboard?

    What it you have an ABY splitter, could right before the splitter, which then y’s to the amps?

    I think right after the guitar out (or the first chain before anything), because cancelling the hum at the very beginning of the source is the (theoritical) best way.

    But you can always try to experiment, play with the order to find what is best for your setup.

    April 6, 2009 at 1:18 am #95318
    BlueSteel
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    I think after a tuner, but if you don’t use a tuner pedal though, then richoz is right, the first thing after your guitar.

    April 17, 2009 at 2:02 pm #95768
    B.Daws
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    You know I would have to say first in your chain (and I wish I would have thought of that!) because I had mine last and it really sounded bad. It killed my sustain and made this weird springy reverb sound when I used distortion, honestly I was so pissed about it I just sold it. It worked out though because I bought a Godlyke power supply for $30 and now my hum is gone.

    May 5, 2009 at 8:04 pm #96404
    WatsonWood
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    What type of guitars / PUs are you using the Hum Debugger with?..or did you use it with?

    May 7, 2009 at 1:31 am #96443
    freshchops
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    What type of guitars / PUs are you using the Hum Debugger with?..or did you use it with?

    I use a plethora of guitars including a Stat and Tele with single coils. The tele is by far the most noisy one but in general they are controllable noise levels, even for recording. My problem is that I’ve been experimenting with playing through a variety of amps simultaneously with ABY switches and the stereo outs of the 2880 looper. I’m getting a lot of ground hum on certain combinations. My main intention of the the HUM DEBUGGER is to cut the hum of amps on a ABY switch. so I didn’t know if it’s be best to place it actually on the tail end, coming out of the switch to one of the amps?

    I’m still experimenting but because I don’t anything about how the technology of the Debugger works, I don’t know if there are way you don’t benefit from at all based on where you place it.

    “Jefe, what is a plethora?”

    May 7, 2009 at 9:26 am #96460
    WatsonWood
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    It could be that in your case you have what one of my roadies used to call a “ground loop”. With guitar, effects,2880, ABY switch and two (or more) amps linked together one should have the whole lot grounded once. It can occur, depending how everything is plugged in, mains sockets etc. that you find yourself on two separate electric circuits, each with its own earth. In itself no problem if one circuit is for the lighting and one for the music gear.

    However, if the music gear is plugged in to two separate circuits, since all the gear is linked together with leads and cables, the two separate “grounds” or “earths” can enter into conflict. This causes serious ground hum and, if you are on stage and a bright spark has plugged your amp into the light circuit, it can cause interesting and unwanted sound effects as the light power changes, and even, as some of us may have experienced, electric shock. :poke:

    So if this hum does not want to go away then I would first check out the electric circuit powering the gear if you have not already done it.

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