Stop Your Guitar From Buzzing and Get a Better Tone
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- If you’ve spent some time playing the electric guitar, then there’s no doubt you’ve done your fair share of battle with buzz. The sound of a humming guitar (known as 60 cycle hum) can be one of the most annoying and challenging things to eliminate when you’re building your guitar rig.
In this lesson, we’ll do some troubleshooting to help you find the unruly culprit and go over some tips for a clean and quiet electric guitar tone.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:40 - What kind of buzz are we talking about?
1:18 - The Amp
1:54 - Your Phone
2:25 - Your Guitar
3:26 - The Cable
4:12 - The Pickups
7:01 - The Room
7:44 - The Pedalboard
9:21 - Get An Isolated Power Supply
10:45 - Daisy Chain Problems
14:00 - Power Conditioners
14:26 - Use A Noise Gate
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Ayla has been making waves in the world of guitar playing as a professional guitarist, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer, since the early age of 14. After only been playing for two years, her first CZcams video (a rendition of John Mayall’s “Hideaway”) put her on the map and kickstarted her music career. She has since been featured in Rolling Stone magazine, become a member of the Ernie Ball and Fender family of artists, and earned various Berklee College of Music scholarships. Musically, Ayla finds great pleasure in exploring the numerous avenues available to her through various styles of music, as seen through her work with Calpurnia and Ludic.
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God. It's so refreshing seeing someone make a guitar video who isn't a dad
One of the classics is plugging in your amp and faintly getting a radio station coming through it. I support power conditioners, shielded power strips, shielded cable, shield the insides of the guitar, shielded connecting cables on your pedal board and noise gates have evolved a lot so don't rule one out.
I used to plug in my amp and somehow I would hear my neighbors playing Halo 1 through my amp. Like, I would here them talking through it.
My bassist came to practice one day with a distortion pedal he built himself (electrical engineering student) it was just exposed circuits and the feedback was rough. But at one point when he was fucking with it we started picking up the footy on the radio and we all just lost it 😂
I haven't heard that since I was a kid... been so long I forgot about that moment.
I have a pedal that gets the amp to pick up radio signals
@@firer2d2how is this even possible
Hey, at least we've discovered how to create a decent Lightsaber sound, especially when waving the guitar around! 😁
Ha! I thought the same thing
Thanks for the advice Ayla. I'm getting back in to playing at a more serious level and any guidance I can get is pretty much icing on the cake. Thanks again, cheers, fair winds.
You are such a positive person. Love your videos
Thanks for this! Like you, I love single coils but I hate excessive hum. I'll try to move around like you suggested
very clearly explained in a present tone. I am totally in love with this lady. thank you for explanation.😀😀
Great information with many things to consider !
Love your video’s 💎
thanks Ayla ! always learning something new from you ' cheers !
Ayla thank you so much what an awesome video I'm 80 years old and still learning lol 😉
the intro is perfect immaculate 10/10 i felt that in my soul
thank you Ayla for showing us all the parts and functions of the guitar this will help me a lot later Ayla I love you
I love your teaching methods , your accent and your beauty.
great stuff alya. i've never thought too much on how to eliminate buzz but i ditched the daisy chain on my peddle board and swapped it out for an isolated power and that cut the noise by about 90%. that's a bunch!
LoVE how you make the Explanation SO SIMPLE
Thank you, amazing how much I learned!🙏
I would love a video on how to record guitar (i.e. how to work in a DAW)
Ayla, both you and your accent are awesome!❤
ive veiwed alot of conditions that cause noize in guitar amps on u tube channels ... you have covered all of them plus. thanks for the good job.
Thanks for the information, the building I lived in was a problem and even my guitar cable
Stumbled across this channel from an ad while watching youtube...thank God. I am a BRAND NEW guitar "player" and it has been very difficult to find a truly good place to learn from. Peeked through your list of videos and lessons and looking very forward to going through them all.Thank you for existing lol
Very good, practical info. Thank you. 👍😎
Hey Ayla, I have played guitar for nearly 50 years, and I built my very first pedalboard. I used 12 pedals which I need for recording purposes. I used a Pedal Power Mondo which has 12 outlets. I used Evidence Audio cable to make patch cables. There is hardly any noise. The only noise I get is from my Keeley modified DS-1. I am so happy with the outcome, and happy with the recordings with my band. The advice you give has helped me in certain circumstances, Thank you...
Thank you Ayla for that tips. I use a noise suppressor👍.
Very nice explanation!
Very Helpful Video, Awesome. Thankyou
I have used copper shielding in the pickup cavities, even tried a special paint designed to shield that is supposed to quiet the pickups. I have a Decimator II and it affects the tone to me, as do coated strings. I use a Furman power strip that is supposed to have a buffer that suppresses electrical current white noise but I still get noise out of the best single coils I use. I finally just said the heck with it and crank it up, after years and years of playing, the loud amp covers the pickup noise and helps deaden the tinnitus I have developed. LOL. Crank it like Jimi and let it rip. Rock n Roll will never die. 👍🎸🙏😎✌️
So good!! 👏🏻
Great video! 😁🤘🏻
Awesome video. Thank you for your technical support and information. And also your beautiful clear voice. .🐇🔥❤❤❤💯☝
I got the same Fender . Thanks for the info.
I have a 79 Strat, it usually has a bit of a buzz through my 75 Fender Twin Reverb and usually most amps. When plugged into my JSX Satriani model Peavey, no buzz.
Some things I knew and something's I learned so thanks for that ps u love your channel
More Great stuff.Thanks...They make noiseless single coil pickups now..this was an issue that drove me crazy..I put humbuckers in some of my strats. Have a great Day as well!
hello young lady, all i can say is thankyou that was so clear to to me and wow what an expert you are aswell as on the guitar thank you again , kind regards mike in the uk.
I have a rp 80 and it does what a combo of pedals does in just one unit. It has a setting that is called the noise gate and it is a great noise eraser. Check your grounds .
ok... I'm not a guitar player and I can barely get some notes out of a guitar, but I work at a very noisy place and your words at the very end ("have a wonderful noise-free day") just made my day. :-)
Very good video. Subscribed!
I have often found the problem to be improperly grounded electrical outlets. The cheaper the bar/club/venue the more likely this will occur. Before trying anything, try plugging into different outlets. Great job girl.
Last year I bought a fully loaded Dave Murray Seymour Duncan pickguard and installed it in a MIM Stratocaster. The pickguard comes with pre-wired hot rails in the bridge and neck positions, a JB Jr. in the middle, and switches/pots that are all wired up. Unfortunately the thing buzzed once installed in the guitar. However, the buzz would actually go away when I touched the strings or bridge, which suggested a grounding issue. I checked all of the components using a multi-meter but could not find any problem with the grounding. So I removed the pickguard, redid the soldiering, replaced the output jack/wiring, and even replaced the ground wire that connects to the tremolo claw. But that stupid buzz still persisted. As a last resort, I bought some copper shielding tape and completely lined the cavity in the body. The back side of the plastic pick guard came with a small amount of silver shielding surrounding the pickups, so I added copper tape to the back of the pick guard in order to ground the silver shielding to the cavity tape when re-installed on the guitar. (Note that I had to run the cavity tape out a little onto the front side of the guitar so that it would make contact with the shielding tape on the backside of the pickguard.) The shielding miraculously eliminated the buzz! The guitar sounds great with these pickups.
Thank you Ayla ❤
The best !!! CZcams Channel talking about music Stuff, She's soo intelligent person, well done !
Great lesson
Good Video -- Something I don't see much information on although I probably haven't looked much since I'm not exactly a touring musician -- just making music/noise at home. A pretty informative video though! I had some issues with my guitar but haven't played it much in years so I cleaned the contacts for the pickup selector and the volume/tone pots and replaced the input jack (Pure Tone) and it is much better. This will give me more ideas as I add some more pedals to my rig in the near future. Also I know I have to go through and get some new cables -- probably a bit of my remaining issues after fixing my guitars.
Beautiful teacher
In some cases you can also get clip-on emi/rfi filters for your cables. If your setup is near other electronics, or even certain kinds of lights, it can cause a problem - even with high quality cables.
This helps me in case I hear guitar buzz. 🎸 Thanks
Great video, although there is one thing that you did not touch on which I found to drastically improve the 60 cycle hum. Shielding the pickup cavity with either copper or shielding paint. It can be quite tedious but it's well worth it!
I think she covered that in taking it to a professional when it comes to getting into the pick ups and the guitar its self.
One can have hum problems caused by an ungrounded circuit, which is not so uncommon in some countries and older apartments/houses. To get rid of this one can use a wireless scheme to plug the guitar to the amp (or to the beginning of the pedal chain) --- there are some alternatives in the market. This completely solved for me when I use single-coils, the hum is completely gone.
This young lady is so genuine, sincere and knowledgeable. All her videos are spot on. Heck, I would be happy to add another daughter and adopt her.
Knowledgeable at making up words like electromatic whatever that means and not understanding any of what she is talking about in this video !
I just want to add the secret method in cancelling the single coil/Strat hum. Just do the "Shielding technique" by opening the pick guard cavity and putting an aluminum foil all around. it works wonders for my only Strat, since most of my guitars are humbuckers, i dont' encounter this much often. 😉
Anyway your channel rocks!🤘I'm planning to relearn the guitar from scratch and forget all the scales, modes and techniques just to have a private lesson with you.😁😘
That is no secret method !
Whats pick guard cavity?
@@zenitsuagatsumanezukochann8502 unscrew the whole pickguard of your Strat, until you see the hollow space, that's it.😉
@@2good2betrue3 what's a pick guard 🥲
@@zenitsuagatsumanezukochann8502 lol, mate I'm not sure if your trolling😅😆, but to answer your question, if you have a Strat the pickguard is the plastic that your pick up and knobs are attached. underneath it is the pickguard cavity. Always remember "Google is your friend". Cheers!🙂
Thank you.
Your Fender Ultra Stratocaster in the color Texas tea has Fender Noiseless pickups in them. Those are actually stacked Humbuckers and should generate way less hum at the expense of some dynamics. So unless you've changed them out....
I have almost the same guitar (different color) , and it has way less noice coming from the guitar.
The metal pick guard on Ayla's guitar is known from picking up signals. (imho a design flaw from Fender).
This was great. I think you could have included shielding pickup cavities and cleaning your pots on your list as well.
Thank you 💕
A ground loop is when multiple devices have *different* grounding points--the noise is caused by the imbalance in current swirling around.
The solution is to connect everything to one ground (like one good, electrically-clean power strip).
Great advice! The phone on the amp was my problem. Thank you!
I had same problem with laying my phone on pedalboard.
I was once playing Bass in the recording studio and we kept hearing a weird ticking sound in our headphones. It was my cell phone in my front pocket right behind the bass, coming through the pickups. This stuff can be pretty crazy LOL
Years ago I had a severe noice issue when playing at home. I did all of this, lol. Checked the amp, cable, guitar electronics, pickups, my pedals, everything, but the noise was still there. I noticed it would only happen at my house. I also noticed the noise would go away if I was playing barefoot... That's when it hitted me. They had recently repaired a wall and, during that repair, they did changes to the house electric wiring! So, we called an electrician, he did his magic and now the noise was finally gone.
Probably the circuit was ungrounded, that's because playing barefoot helped (you were basically serving as the ground). You could had also used a wireless connection between the guitar and the amp, it would have worked too!
super finally super helping tips
Cool vids dude!😎
thx for sharing~
Pedal board issues are one reason why I use just a Line 6 helix for all my distortion and effect sounds in front of my amp. Having just device eliminates any noise issues that might come from having pedals in one chain.
I had the aha moment when talking about the daisy. I use 4 pedals and it's super noisy. I'm almost positive it's because of that. Thanks for the tips!
On a strat, remove the pick gard. The pick gard should have foil on the underside. Replace the pick gard with a genuine fender strat pick gard with foil on the under side. This shields the electronics from outside interference like flouresent builds and other emitting devices! I worked on my strat.
It's almost like businesses create things intentionally that we have to fix. For example, if you have Windows 10, there is a policy installed on it that makes your computer use way more memory. Once it's turned off, it runs like a Mac. Now with your guitar, adjust the saddles exactly like default Squier alignment and you will have perfect intonation all the way up the neck. It's almost as if getting to route causes, fixes problems. haha
Very informative. As an added point of information there are also several aftermarket products available that are designed as “dummy coils” which ostensibly turn your single coils into humbuckers without altering the guitar or the single coil sound. I have no personal experience with them and unless you know what you’re doing they should be installed by a professional but they’re are numerous CZcams videos on the subject.
this video is of great importance, since sometimes some do not know what happens. ( 5:57 retro visual effects )
Listen to Jimi's 'Come On pt1' on Electric Ladyland, great 60cycle hum on that one.
Very good video!
I already knew these things, but for a beginner it will be very helpfull.
I wish that all beginners watch this so they can learn important stuff and maybe even save alot of money😂
Thanks Ayla, what lessons do you teach in Guitareo? I search in guitareo and found Guitarquest, guitar system, recording guitar are not taught by you. Thanks
everything before the actual amplification components in the amp act as (more or less directional) antennas picking up the the 60Hz frequency broadcasted by the AC power lines and other plugged in devices (other frequencies too, but 60Hz is usually the loudest. in europe they use 220V and 50Hz so the buzzing is 50Hz :) ). CFM/fluorescent lights are especially noisy. needless to say, a longer cable is noisier than a shorter one.
touching the tip of the guitar cable jack is the most extreme/loud of scenarios... but simultaneously touching the tip and the sleeve (ground) of the jack greatly attenuates the noise because a sort of short circuit is happening.
so it's well worth to check if the 'grounding' in your guitar is proper, meaning there is electrical contact between the jack's sleeve and everything else in your guitar: the potentiometers' metal cases, bridge/strings, switches' metallic cases, the shielding in the pickup cavity and scratch guard, etc.
to check that, a multimeter on the resistance setting is best but also touching the metal parts of the guitar should quiet down the noise. for example, if touching the metallic bridge doesn't attenuate the buzz, chances are the ground wire under the bridge is not making proper contact ...
ps: i tried to eliminate buzz by "shielding" the pickup cavities w/ aluminum or copper tape on particularly noisy guitars but it doesn't completely eliminate the buzz in noisy environments, such as a room w/ multiple fluorescent lights.
informative . Cool !!!
Volume knob... use it, love it.
Hi Ayla, this might be a dumb question, but does grounding the strings have anything to do with guitar buzz?
You gave me a couple of new things to try that’s for sure, I’ve been having some crazy feedback and buzz when I’m not playing. Sometimes turning the volume on my guitar off fixes it sometimes it doesn’t. There are those times everything wants to be a pain in the butt and the only thing that fixes it is turning off the pedal until I’m ready for it. I’ve been dialing in my board every since I put it together and I’m just now getting it to where I like it! Now with your advice it’ll be dialed in shortly. Thank you 🙇♂️
GET A GOOD NOISE GATE
@@TheVINMAN531 I have a noise reducer and it works I just need to get my room ready that I’m going to use for my studio. Then try the simple things like spacing on my board. I have room For one more pedal before I get into the higher output plugs. I’ll look into a noise gate though. Thanks 😁
@@GuitarMooseMusic No problem.They work great.
@@TheVINMAN531 Why is it that I dont recall ever hearing of a pro using a noise gate on their pedal board? I watch a lot of Rig Rundown videos. and dont recall anyone incorporating a noise gate on stage.
Great video,thanks for posting. You look nice this morning
bruh
Dude you realize she proly doesnt even read the comments its someone else
Thank you! I have a similar problem that you didn't mention. I have a bass on a bass guitar regularly but when I touch the strings or the iron of the cable it stops... probably related to the ground? I would love to hear from you. thanks again
Thank you for making this video. Definitely a lot of good info to think about. Seymour Duncan makes a hum eliminator, you just plug the amp into the hum Eliminator then into the socket. I enjoy stereo amplification and use a fender Pro Junior and a marshall valvestate 15 which combined makes a dreadful hum. It did not eliminate the hum totally but it made it much more bearable, however, at 100usd per hum Eliminator they are expensive. Lately I've enjoyed plugging straight into the amplifier with no effects and find that also eliminates the noisiness aspect. Cheers
When you run 2 amps you need a ab/y box or it can be noisy
@@markrobinson8410 thank you for the information I'll definitely check it out
I use Marshall valvestate amps too 8040 and 8240 stereo chorus.
Thanks very helpful.. I rebuilt a guitar and none stop buzzing could not figure it out... redid it again same thing... I watched this video but rewired it anyway still buzzing.. changed cards and wow no buzzing... it was driving me crazy.. every thing brand new even cards but cards no good..😀😃😄👍👍
If you are running into a pa, it's good to use a a DI box
Buzz can be so annoying, that's why this is a very good tutorial for all of us - I guess. My old strat-clone from Japan in the 1980's will buzz if the hands are not touching the strings - or some metal on the guitar.
You just need to shield off your guitar. The buzzing happens because pickups are “picking up” your body’s waves until you ground yourself, aka touching a metal piece that’s grounded. You can mix graphite powder with acrylic paint or use conductive copper tape.
I’m not sure if you mentioned this, if you did I missed it, but one other thing is a noise gate, my amp has a noise gate, the gate can be adjusted to only let sound out when you hit the strings. But I guess the hum would still be there when you hit the strings but you won’t hear it due to the strings being louder than the hum, what do you think?
I used copper foil for shielding all of My guitars, I've also shielded the speakers in My Mesa Tremoverb, shielding the combo amp section and using a power conditioner, Mogami speaker wire, Neutrik gold plated 1/4 mono jacks , My 100 watt Dual Rectifier is very quiet until you strike a chord!!
How do you shield the speakers? I never heard anyone do this.
If I get buzzing from my set up after I've ruled out the guitar and amp I go down the pedal chain unplugging and replugging the patch leads. When I get to the problem pedal the buzz stops. Then check the lead, make sure it's clean or even swap it usually solves the problem.
So when are you going to get a schecter demon-7 seven string guitar I have one their great
Noise gate in front helps
subscribed and clicked the bell!!!
You should try "Feedbacker" pedal,its on BossGT1.It has all the noises,and swirl around,loud.And do not feedback.Strat "Limited-Edition" cant be used with volume,it has to stay middle at 5.It pick up youtube music,amplifier speaker and guitar playing loop loud in the speaker.
ill try ur suggestions
my Tele ie humming bad
I find if you have all your plugged into one mains plug the cycle hum is worse.
Try using extensions from other outlets.
Also fluorescent lighting is a big culprit.
As are any items that are charging phone, pad computer etc if they on the same circuit
Lastly some places and houses just have bad cycle hum, nothing you can do except use a noise gate.
One night I went crazy trying to find what was making it so bad, turns out it was an electric blanket.
your technical knowlegde is good but the bottom line it is yourself that will make your time happy and enjoy the moment of playing guitar 😁😁😁
60 cycle hum is music to my ears
I don't play guitar (wish I did), but this was awesome! Thank you.
That white acoustasonic 🥹🥹
My amp has a built-in noise gate, works for me. 👍
I’ve found that the buzz comes from my really cheap amp so I’m trying to save up for a good one and I’ll buy a new Jack too so I can really improve my set up
Last night, for the first time in years i had noise. My telecaster goes to my Helix floor and i use headphones cause i live in an apartement. Never found the source. But thanks to your video, i'm going to plug my helix in a separate outlet. Cause on that outlet i have 4 amps on a power bar, even if i can't use them where i live haha
Does anyone know a brand/model of longer pedal power cables.
I found out using the video that the daisy chain to the wah isn't a good thing. But I need the length.
14:54 "Fantastic!"
It was relieving to watch this video because I was expecting the problems with my guitar to occur due to its being relatively cheap.