Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: cozmik_cowboy on March 08, 2022, 02:35:03 PM
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When my youngest moved to AK, among the things he didn't take was a little Squier 15 SS amp; I keep it by my bench for testing things.
Today I was doing some fret-end work & wanted to see if I'd gotten it good enough that I could play without requiring sutures after. I had, for that very reason, not played it in a while, so I figured I'd plug it in. I plugged, I turned on - and I was greeted with a hellacious buzz and a radio station. It worked perfectly the last time I turned it on.
Whiskey tango foxtrot, over?
Peter
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Upon further investigation:
Unplugged the cord from the input & turned the amp on; silence.
Plugged the guitar back in with a new cord & turned it on; worked fine.
Just for confirmation, plugged it back in with the old cord & turned it on; worked fine!
I'm baffled & confused...................
Peter
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I had two pickup connectors reversed one time, putting them out of phase, and one of them started picking up a Cuban radio station until I figured it out.
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Naw - the onliest things I've done electronically are add a jumper so the 2nd Tone works on the bridge as well as the middle p/up, and add a mini-toggle to cut the neck p/up on independent of the 5-way for all 7 combos - and it worked fine, in the same place with the same amp & cord, after that. My old friend & former next-door neighbor came by to run my snowblower this PM (I being too gimped to do so these days), and he - drummer, keyboardist, guitarist, bassist, and serious tech guy - said that when he was in the 'hood, one of the 3 radio stations within a mile of here would come in on his Leslie (interestingly, the farthest one), but he has no idea about the buzz.
Just to make it more fun: The computer I had when we moved in in '06 would pick up a Catholic station - even when the speakers were off; I had to unplug them. And there's no Catholic station anywhere near here..........
Peter (whose parents would tell him the lord was trying to overcome his heathen ways - except they'd think he'd do it with a Methodist station......)