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The Pickup Place / Re: Disagreement with my tech : very simple question : is HB ground wiring needed?
« on: January 07, 2021, 03:15:07 pm »
I think what you are noticing is quite the same with trying to use speaker cables for guitars and vice versa. A friend of mine had this terrible high frequency noise coming from his studio monitors. So much so, that my ocd kicked in and instead of recording my track, I started chasing down the noise. What did I find? He was using guitar cables for his monitor leads (they're both 1/4" plug so what's the difference was his logic). After going to my cord bag and hooking up an actual pair of speaker cables to his monitors the noise disappeared and I was able to concentrate on playing. I have noticed that you can get that same high pitched noise when practicing through headphones. I also think, like someone else said, that it is a capacitive induced noise that is from being in proximity to other things (computers, headphones being close to your pickups, cordless phones). When I was a phone technician I would see this phenomenon often. Especially in aerial cables.