for a while now when i play through my V to my marshall i get this faint humming noise and i found that if i touch either of my knobs or the switch the hum dies

anyone know why this is and how i can stop it? the ibanez msp1000 im getting has a notch filter so would that take care of it?

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you didn't have it before? or are you playing at higher volumes now?

most amp/guitar combinations have a hum, when you touch the hardware it dies, thats just because your making 'earth' with your body (don't know how to call it in english.)

if you didn't have it before, it might be something you changed, if you play closer to your amp you get hums, different pickups, crappy wiring/bad ground lead, that sorta stuff.

don't know about the notch filter, I know a sound supressor works great (got one built in the powerball )

keep rubbing it in

well to my knowledge a notch filter is the same a noisegat/sound supresser
yea its always been there so... but since i have gotten my x2n i do get a lot more feedback when i walk close by my amp it has such high output

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ah. so its completely logical...

well I have a notch filter on my bass amp and I could only use that to get rid of nasty frequencies that made my windows ring heh.

the one on my amp works great though, so if its the same idea, it should work for you too.

the notch filter is not a noise suppressor....it just allows to to tune in on specific frequencies and cut them out. which might help if you have certain problem causing freq's...

you probably have grounding issues.... you say it started when you got the x2n installed? your guitar is probably not grounded properly. when you touch a metal part you "ground" it... it might be something the dude installing the pickup goofed up on. you can have that fixed.

hum is more of an amp issue, like if your amp is on, but you volume on your guitar is down, the amp has operation noise.... sometimes it's a grounding issue with the amp... or a pedal's powersupply. there will always be a level of operation noise, depending on the quality of the amp it might be higher than others.

feedback and operation noise is just something you have to deal with when you have loads of gain at high volume. a noise suppressor or noise gate will help the feedback.

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get the circuitry checked...could be some earthing problem as well in your room

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'aarde' = ground in english, but I guess earth can be used too

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Something isent grounded in your guitar...

Sounds like their isent a ground going to the bridge.

But if its a strat then just live with it, strats are just noisy..

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i said it was my V anywho thanks guys

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Hmm. , On my guitar, when I play the 7-12 frets on the sixth string, I get this annoying low frequency sounding tone drowning out the actual sound of the guitar. I have no fucking clue whats causing it nor does my luthier. Do you suppose on of these 'notch filters' would help that? And tell me more about his notch filter.

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i don't know if the notch filter would work for that, i think you're just getting overtones...

but say if for example, you had a problem causing freqency of about 6.3k, you can dial in on it and sweep it out.... i never really liked to sweep out to much of one frequency, it just sounded like a hole in my tone.

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how can you tell what frequency it is?

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the higher the number the higher the frequency... it's one of those thing's you'll have to aquire an ear and a feel for.
just piss around with it and see what it can do...

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Okay, Overtones. What causes them?

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i probably wont explain it in the most scientifically accurate way... but ovetones are the combined notes that make up a note, you hit a note, it's many notes at once that make up that sound... so if you hit one string it may make another string vibrate or give off harmics of that note from the overtones resonating...
i don't know exactly what your problem is, but it seems logical to me that you're just getting some kind of overtone harmonic or something when you play a certain note...

but don't listen to me to closely about this, because i don't think i know to much about it.

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my buddy got the same thing on his base like 11 fret on the a string...sounded like a trumpet kinda

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Did he find out what was wrong with it?

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no and he ended up seeling it, shame it was a nice bass too

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I will get this fixed even if it costs a lot of money. Its on a nice guitar and it gets real annoying.

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is it like a dead spot or a buzzing? because if it's either of them you can just have your intonation adjusted or a fret sanded down.

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It aint that simple. I wish it was just buzzing but its not. It could be that slightly, but I think its something different. It almost sounds like (when playing it non amplified) when you play the 6th string on the higher frets. You know, that tinny, ringing sound. But this is at like the 7,8,9,10, and 11 frets. It pretty much stops at the 12 fret and sounds fine up from there. Very fucking weird. I'm gonna have my luthier REALLY look into whats causing this because he's not even really sure. Whatever it is, I'm willing to pay a pretty large amount of money to get this fixed.
Any theories to what is causing this is very much welcome.

When I'm playing it, I'm all like "FUCK YEAH!!!" Then I get to the 7th+ frets and I'm just like Meh . Ka-THX.

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CC - Next time im on aim talk to me, i might have a few solutions to your problems.. which seems obvious but most likely will fix the problem.

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Hmm. Just post them here.

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