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Alembic products => Owning an Alembic => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: Twocan on September 23, 2018, 06:25:39 AM

Title: Tall Buildings and Radio Waves
Post by: Twocan on September 23, 2018, 06:25:39 AM

Greetings,


I played a wedding on the 16th floor of a Boston hotel last night. To my dismay, the second I plugged into my amp my Essence was broadcasting a local radio station. I tried different outlets, no pedalboard, groundlift, different plugs -nothing solved the issue. I got through the gig with my filter rolled all the way off, as well as the Q off, which minimalized the problem about 90%. Looking back, I had this problem once before: another wedding gig, on the top floor of a hotel in downtown Providence.


I feel pretty comfortable ruling out weddings as the culprit here, which leaves the elevation. Electrical is also unlikely: one venue was very dated but last night’s was a newer build.


Are there any methods or products to deal with this?? Both times this quickly became an embarrassing issue during a high priority gig, which I would not anticipate with a top of the line instrument. Both times, no one else in the 7 piece band was affected. Thanks for your help.

Title: Re: Tall Buildings and Radio Waves
Post by: rv_bass on September 23, 2018, 09:53:24 AM

I’ve encountered this with various amps over the years, in fact you can here this happening right at the end of one of those percussion pieces I recently posted, I was using a Peavey amp and Gibson guitar. 

There are discussions online about this topic.  Here is one detailed description (scroll down a little).

 https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/does-your-amp-pick-up-radio-signals.281178/