StevieD_FenderP2009

Hi there BigRedX - I;ve got 5 packets of Humfrees on order (just so i have loads of spares as well as at some point i'm going to buy a DBX160 Compressor and change to a 5 or 6u rack) Also, i've taken the steps of disconnecting it then putting the recievers into the amp one by one, and even tried bass to tuner to head and still the buzz was there when i tried it. So im now waiting for the humfrees to arrive and i'm also going in to the music shop tomorrow (as they have an audio product repair center next door) so they can take a look at it. Hoping this won't cost to much Warwickhunt - I would go back to using stomp box tuners etc but as BigRedX pointed out, no stomp boxes have the dual inputs, plus, i love having all my stuff racked together. Looks neater, much easier to use (well, not in my case cos i'm stupid) and i've splashed out on the rack equipment so i'd rather not have to change back. If worst comes to worst and i get told i can't use my amp head in the rack mount, i'll put it back in the wooden sleeve, look out for the proper rack version/save up for a newer AH600-12 Trace Elliot rack head then sell the current one. I shall have to see, as said, if worst comes to worst i'll do that Ps, Warwickhunt, what happened to the large array of Warwicks you had? didnt you have like, 10 at one point? Cheers for all your help guys

Close to throwing it all out the window now Took it all apart again today as it was still humming then re-wired it Put it so that i had both wirelesses running into a dual to single splitter which was run into the input on my head with the "effects out" output being run to the input on the tuner and guess what BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ so i threw a bit of a strop, turned it off, put it in my cupboard and locked it away. didnt want to even look at it as it's annoyed me that much (sounds like a kid has pissed me off haha) I think i might have to take it into my local music shop and have them look at it for me. See what they say about it all £600's worth of equipment and i can't even use it properly... ~ARGH~

[quote name='MacDaddy' post='354730' date='Dec 15 2008, 12:30 AM']I don't want to borrow it, but I have a Leeds Utd sticker to go on it! [/quote] Good lad! Up the leeds!

Ok dude, cheers for the advise. I'll have a go at that tomorrow when i get in then go through the other steps you posted on there cheers

Yeah man, very good mates with them all. Was in Slaves with Belly and Dan. We're actually playing a show down in London on the 19th February but we're trying to book a few shows in between. Have known Bell for a few years now actually. Only known the rest of the Abadden lot since start of 2008 How's Aghast going anyways? You lot should be signed by now!

[quote name='Mog' post='685493' date='Dec 15 2009, 06:03 PM']Hey steve,sorry for not getting back sooner,had bloody exams today.Seems like BigRedX is on the ball.If its not a grounding issue im stumped. Good luck with it lad, hope it works out for[/quote] Hey there mog, no worries man, cheers anyways and hope the exams went well dude. But as i promised earlier, here are the pictures of the inside of the back of my rack and the front Please remember the yellow cable from the output on the tuner is the yellow cable running into the input on he head Front view Back view also, the buzzings back again ARGH!

Dude, I'm from the bedfordshire metal scene too, I was in Slave to Nature and now in Crimson Dream, Saw you supporting Abadden at the Luton SU and SnoBar MK. Your a sick bassist man!

I'd recomend a Boss Bass Limiter LMB-3 Pedal if you want a cheap solution. I've used one to boost the DI signal at a gig once. Also, the Tech21 SansAmp Bass Driver DI is a very good recomendation. They really do boost the warmth of your signal. Also mate, nice setup, i've got basically the same as you, but i use Abelton, Reason and Line 6 Toneport UX2 into my Laptop running WinDOWNS Vista Premium. Really good setup actually. But also, i use the DI XLR out on my bass amp to connect to the XLR input on the UX2 and i get such a warm signal. Would be nice to add a SansAmp inbetween that though haha StevieD

Hi mate I'll add some photo's for you later on When the buzzing first started, i had the tuner at the top (1u), recievers underneath that (1u) and the Trace head at the bottom (2u) Now i've got it with the Trace at the top, recievers in the middle and tuner at the bottom so the light from it beems down onto my cab and lights up the Marshall logo (tarty aint it haha) With regards to the Reciever rack mounts, they are half units but AKG do a kit called the RMU40 which has 2 small attachments pieces to connect the 2 recievers to each other and then 2 rack ears to put either side of the kit. Also, if you want to use just one reciever, it has a half unit rack ear to take up the empty gap. here's a link to the mounting instructions for you to take a look at: [url="http://www.akg.com/mediendatenbank2/psfile/datei/15/rmu40pro4469973552698.pdf"]AKG RMU40 Mounting Instructions[/url] I'm popping down to my dads a bit later so i'll get the pictures for you when i go down there. As you said, i'll get humfrees for each piece of equipment. Oh, just noticed your question about the head. and no, it's not the rack specific version but with a 2u rack tray bolted to the top of the chassis it fits in to a rack (i was advised to do this by a fellow basschatter). It's just plainly bolted on to the chassis by the 4 bolts that had it screwed into the wooden casing it came in. There is also a small washer inbetween the tray and the rack chassis. This was all done by my dads mate who has the tools for doing stuff like that. it's fit so securely to the tray it has no hope of coming out of it Cheers dude!

Hey cheers BigRedX I think i'm going to have to go for the Humfree's as i got slightly confused when reading about the earth lift cables (i'm a bit stupid haha) So yeah, i'll order some and see what happens with it all This is really wierd though. today i turned it all on and had it re-built EXACTLY how i had it before and all bolted in as tightly as possible and guess what... NO BUZZING?!!?!?!! Really wierd man. I'm scared the problem will come back and it might even come back during a gig which wont be good so i'm going to take every precaution necessary Cheers

Basically guys, I'm having a couple of guitars made for me by my mums boyfriend who's a wood professional and has built guitars before He has offered to build me 2 for free and has asked me to get some plans So, if anyone has any, can you send me over the plans for a Ricky 4003 bass and a Jackson RR24 guitar? Or if you know where to get these from? Cheers guys

Buy it man, it will look and sound incredible. And i echo what BassBod says, but my advise would be to put a Seymour Duncan SPB-3 P pup in and the SJB-3 J Pup at the bridge, i've used that config before and it sounded amazing

right guys, just connected one wireless reciever straight to the TE head (still all rackmounted) without the tuner in the circuit and the noise is still there. then tried just my bass into the head and no noise, so i've determined it's not the head that has a problem. I think it's a grounding problem with the wireless kits but im most probably wrong so please tell me if you know EDIT!: Plugged bass directly into both input channels on back of tuner then ran a cable from the output on the back of the tuner to the TE head and there's no buzzing, just the pure signal. Definately the wireless kits causing this noise now. Any advise? please? Also, when i had everything connected but no bolts holding the wireless kit in place, there was no buzz, then i put 2 bolts in on the left hand size and still no buzz, then as i was putting the 2nd one in on the right hand side, the buzzing started... what the hell is wrong with my equipment! also it's worth noting that all the time i didnt have any bolts in, the wireless's were pushed in as far as they could and the ears were touching the case... so it's just when the bolts are in and screwed in as tight as possible

Splitter hasnt worked...

[quote name='Mog' post='683430' date='Dec 13 2009, 09:34 PM']is there a tuner out on the T.E? you could try taking it out of the signal path?Does the input led's indicate clipping/overloading when you get the noise? also are both recievers sending signals to the head at the same time?[/quote] Hi there With regards to the input, it comes up flashing that there is an input signal even with no bass plugged in and the signal is pretty high. and regards to the reciever connections to the tuner, on the front of the tuner there is a button to select input 1 or 2 and when either one is selected, it deactivates un-used input until it is selected. There is an effects out from the front of the TE head but the reason i havent used it is because i dont want more wires running from the front of my head. Everything seems to work perfectly and the signal is crystal clear all apart from this buzzing noise I'm just about to try the splitter into the single input so i'll let you all know

[quote name='Tengu' post='683264' date='Dec 13 2009, 07:22 PM']I presume that the reason you have two wireless receivers is because you switch instruments during a gig. How about changing the frequency of the transmitters so that they are both the same and only use one receiver? As long as you ensure that you mute the transmitter that you are not using you would have no interference.[/quote] Hi there dude Yeah i do change basses during the gig for different tunings but unfortunately i can't adjust the frequencies as theyre both fixed single frequency bugs and recievers. i'm going to try a few different things out with the setup tonight and post the results. If the noise is still there then i will go beserk haha

It does seem to be when ive connected everything to the tuner. later on, i shall try attaching the wirelesses into a splitter later on and then putting the splitter into a single input. I really hope this works... Also, thanks to BigRedX for the link, i shall try and work out how to do that. haha. So yeah, would it help if i connected a wire from the from rack piece to the rear one? Thanks so much

Hi again guys I have moved the power supply out of the casing but the noise still occurs. i'm using the power transformers that came with the wireless kits, tuner and head as well. Also, i know it's not the head because when using the head as a stand alone, it doesn't make the noise Basically, unhooked everything and pieced it together bit by bit and the buzzing doesnt occur until i put all the things back in the rack. As said, i re-connected everything then started to put everything back into the rack and it seems to be when everything is back in there, almost like when all the components are touching that it makes the noise so is there any way to sort that at all? By the way, just to clairfy, all my cables are custom made noiseless cables in the rack. I have also tried out standard cables but the noise is still there Cheers guys

Hi there guys. I've got all my kit rackmounted which consists of: Trace Elliot GP12 Series 6 Head (mounted with a rack shelf) 2 AKG WMSPro40 Wireless Recievers Korg DTR2000 RackTuner Also, it's all plugged into a 6 way extention (with surge protection) socket thats been put onto a 1u rack piece Basically, i've got it all built in but there's this f***ing horrible buzzing noise coming from my head when it's all hooked up. I've tried all different cables etc but still the buzzing is there. and this buzz is awful, it's so loud it actually rumbles my cab the way i've got it connected is: Bass guitar 1 + 2 loaded with AKG Bugs on different frequencies -> Recievers -> inputs 1 and 2 on the back of the Korg Tuner seperately -> single output connected to the Active input on my Trace Elliot head (as both basses are active) -> output on back of head to Marshall JCM800 Cab I'll be honest when I say it's really upset me cos I am so proud of how i've worked to get all this equipment I don't know if there is an earthing problem as it started to happen when everything was fully bolted into place. Please note all the "rackears" from each component are metal so they could be interacting and causing a problem, also, the casing on the Trace head is metal and the casing on the wireless recievers is metal so could earthing/insulating be the problem? If so, how can i fix this? Everything is mounted into one of these 4u rackcases - [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ABS-4U-19-RACKMOUNT-FLIGHT-ROAD-TRANSPORT-RACK-CASE_W0QQitemZ370216164827QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Rack_Cases_MJ?hash=item56329a5ddb"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ABS-4U-19-RACKMOUNT-...=item56329a5ddb[/url] That is the exact case by the way Please please help! i'm desperate, Especially as i'm meant to be playing a big make or break gig for a management company in a few weeks time Thanks so much Stevie Dewar