I recently got a nano muff that picks up radio signals, and had the same issue in the past with a crybaby. Has anyone ever built a pedal that actually facilitates and exacerbates this effect? I would love to tune in some talk radio and throw it through this effects chain "heavy synth fuzz -> band pass envelope filter -> chorus -> hard knee compressor" and put the loop through an EHX kill switch set up for press-on operation.
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Picking Up Radio Through Pedal
- Thread starter AmieLouHat
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alot of people complain devi-ever pedals pick up alot of noise. to be honist id try to use it in one of my songs. maby kinda do somthing simalar to 22 going on 23 - the butthole surfers.
you better give me a good reason not to walk into a pawnshop and get me old radios to build strange pedals with...
Great Idea!
I think rehousing something like this ( http://www.deeyoo.com/heeso/Radio.jpg ) and adding an on/off switch should not be problem at all.
Great Idea!
I think rehousing something like this ( http://www.deeyoo.com/heeso/Radio.jpg ) and adding an on/off switch should not be problem at all.
i'd hate to say this is an "easy" fix, but the problem might first begin with your chain.
so what is your signal chain? Bass, specific order of pedals, amp?
when i built tube guitar amps and got the radio problem, it was fixed by adding two 68K resistors to the grounding of the input, instead of the normal 1M that goes from tip to ground on the input jack.
so i don't know about pedals... maybe modding it with a resistor on the input would work?
so what is your signal chain? Bass, specific order of pedals, amp?
when i built tube guitar amps and got the radio problem, it was fixed by adding two 68K resistors to the grounding of the input, instead of the normal 1M that goes from tip to ground on the input jack.
so i don't know about pedals... maybe modding it with a resistor on the input would work?
I was recording a few weeks ago through an MXR M-80 DI pedal. It was broadcasting radio through the board. Flipped the ground switch, and it was gone. But, we did record it through the entire track, just for fun, and as it turned out, got a great little bit at the very end of the song. "In John, He said, before you were born, I sanctified you." Couldn't have been timed out to sound the way it does if we *tried*, but sometimes pure luck is awesome.
Taylor Livingston
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Note the ship date before getting too worked up...
Now, if you want to get rid of it, and are handy with a soldering iron, or know someone who is, make a simple RC lowpass filter between the input pulldown resistor and input cap. The resistor can be something like 2.2k, the cap around 220pf.
Note the ship date before getting too worked up...
Now, if you want to get rid of it, and are handy with a soldering iron, or know someone who is, make a simple RC lowpass filter between the input pulldown resistor and input cap. The resistor can be something like 2.2k, the cap around 220pf.
rratajski
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Taylor Livingston
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rratajski
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- Jul 1, 2008
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Taylor Livingston said:Sorry to get your hopes up. This was from a few years ago.
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