Will TV messup p'ups?

[aesir6]

I was playing today and I was wanting to play with some Rush so I put my cd in my ps2 and its on top of my tv so i had my bass in front of the tv and there was a really loud buzzing. I thought maybe it was my amp until i realized i was in front of the tv. Will this mess up my p'ups over time? Or is it just some kind of electro-wave type thing being recieved by the p'up?

 

[vindy500]

its the martians messin with the tv sattelites again. they now own all your base


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[Ívar Þórólfsson]

To answer your question, no, TV will not mess up your pickups.

Your pickups are just picking up signals/interferance.

 

[aesir6]

Oh ok, thanks.

 

[Searcy]

Your TV screen puts out a massive magnetic field. All non-humbucking pickups will read this field as noise or hum. Turn off the TV while you play or get a long cord so you can step back a bit from the TV.

 

[dlloyd]

Your TV screen puts out a massive magnetic field.

It's not that big... about 0.01 mT at a distance of six inches or so.

A vacuum cleaner puts out a bigger field. Hair dryers too.

RF is the problem.

 

[WalterBush]

If you rotate while playing, even standing in front of the TV, you'll find a position that doesn't hum. Has to do with the way EM fields interact with one another. When recording while standing next to my computer, rotating so my bass is about 45 degrees from the screen kills the noise.

This is also the reason that in some hifi tube amps, the power or speaker transformers are cocked at an angle--to eliminate interference between the two.