hello all

im having a problem im shure we have all had before. i own 2 overdrive pedals. A TS9 and a keeley Modded TS9. I run them simply (59 bassman - TS9 - Strat) everytime i kick it on the noise goes crazy. very hissy, enough for me to take the time and ask for help lol. im asking of anyone knows of anything i can do to get rid of this noise cuz i dont wanna lose the TS9's i love em.

thank you

I threw my TS in the closet and got myself a Fulltone OCD. I also have a ZVEX SHO that was noisy as hell and is also now collecting dust.

What are your settings on those pedals? I found with single coils the noise was worse than a humbucker. I also found having another pedal in front made the noise worse. What I did was put the distorsion pedal first in line from the guitar, then set the volume on it at about 1/2. This got rid of lots of noise and I was able to even out overall volume with the amp and an EQ pedal after.

yea ive tried all these things and its still noisy. I tried using no pedals at all and i still got noise. I think i have noisy pickups. Anybody know any solutions for that?

Most single coils will hum, it's their nature. You have a couple options.

There are pedals that reduce noise (isp decimator?)

You could swap out your pickups for noiseless singles(lace sensors).

Does it seem like the hum is too much? Maybe you have a bad ground wire or cold solder in your electronics.

The Bassman should have a hum adjustment in it like my Twin does. The manual will give you a procedure for doing that. If you have replaced any tubes it could be a bias problem. I had a little hum in my rig and some higher end cables cured that. Like the other guy said, could be a wire gone to ground somewhere in your rig.

see my rig gets real noisy then when i touch the strings or touch the input jack the noise goes away

how would i go about fixing the ground problem???

I would test the amp with a 2nd guitar you know is fine just to make sure it isn't the amp.

If it's the guitar you need to check a few different places for ground...

On the pots
Perhaps on the braid of the pickup wires.
At the bridge
The input jack
Pickup selector switch

If any of those have a broken ground/ungrounded/cold solder that would generate the hum.

Fix is to resolder the bad connection.

what if its the amp?

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Originally posted by Vic:
see my rig gets real noisy then when i touch the strings or touch the input jack the noise goes away

A good shielding job will help with this a lot.

how do i got about doing that???

go to www.guitarnuts.com there is a great shielding proceedure there.

It could be a number of things but I would try using battery power first to see if your screamers still hiss.

My guess is that you are using an unregulated noisy power supply.

Try a battery and let us know!

Shielding is second and more than a good idea.

Regards,
George