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Hey folks
I've got a (V3) EQD Hummingbird which has an irritating noise problem.
Symptoms are as follows:
Now, the thing I haven't tried yet is moving my setup to a different room/plug socket. That's tonight's task.
I've heard that the Hummingbird can be susceptible to noise (since its based on the Vox Repeat Percussion which was notorious for it) but this seems excessive.
Any ideas for why this might be so bad and why my other pedals don't seem to be affected?
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Problem was replicated in a different room on a different amp. With my 1-spot it was very clearly a grounding / 50 hz hum issue of some kind.
So I took the back off and did some prodding. I noticed that rotating the input jack a little seemed to make things a lot better - does the circuit ground on the enclosure? Would that explain the issue? @icbm this is maybe the same issue as I had with that Os-2?
OK, so I managed to improve the whine a little by tightening the input jack but it's still there (along with the clock noise) and it now also picks up a lot of radio station interference. As is, it's unusable which is really annoying because I really love theactual effect!!
Tried it at practice. Same power supply, different environment. No noise at all.
Let the wandering around the house switching everything off begin!
@Magnetic_Effects out of interest, is it still possible to buy an Electrochop?
I couldn't see it on your website. Cheers.
It's not worth skimping on the power supply. I've had 4 over the years. Should have just bought a decent one the first time, and would have saved quite a lot of money.