Picking up radio signals

[mwynalda41]

I was playing recently and noticed that at times I was picking up a faint radio signal. Anyone know how to fix this? I am running my guitar through the POD (HD 500x) only and have headphones connected - no amp or speakers.

[joel_brown]

Are you using a shielded instrument cable to plug your guitar into the PODHD ?  If you are then try a different one.

[Brazzy]

Check this out >>> http://forums.guitarnoise.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=5719

 

You can get bleedover in many ways. It could simply be just your headphones cable acting as the receiving antenna. Sometime being a sound guy isn't very easy. Good Luck

[Brazzy]

Maybe it's this:

 

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu

 

You might be the one.................

 

Good Old SETI, LOL  Good One!! :)

[BillBee]

Hmmmmm.... ya know L6 could make an app for this:

 

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/657/is-it-possible-to-hear-radio-broadcasts-through-your-teeth

 

-B

[pianoguyy]

up until 1994-ish, my personal rehearsal compound (which is different than where the bands rehearsed) was about twenty feet from a major highway, with no 'privacy wall'.

All of the utilities wires were above ground and ran along the highway and then, of course, branched off to connect with the building. 

 

I did not even have a pod back then, but I picked up every trucker's CB that drove by. 

We did not have wi-fi, cell phones, or satelite radio back then. So, I have no idea how those things may have affected the same gear. But terrestrial radio did not interfere. Cordless telephones did not interfere (but I can't know if any were around). Only the CB's. 

 

 

I never found a cause. It happened to every combination of gear. Except using a guitar with a Rockman Soloist with headphones. 

 

 

Oddly enough: the only thing that ever had interference was my gear and one fm radio (not all of them). 

BUT

if I recorded (onto cassette tape) the radio while a cb ran by, I would hear the cb live but not on the tape. Which makes me think that it had something to do with the speakers and not necessarily the electronics.

 

 

 

Sorry I am no help. But I know your pain. 

 

 

 

[Brazzy]

up until 1994-ish, my personal rehearsal compound (which is different than where the bands rehearsed) was about twenty feet from a major highway, with no 'privacy wall'.

All of the utilities wires were above ground and ran along the highway and then, of course, branched off to connect with the building. 

 

Back in the day of the CB and Ham Radio people in homes (truckers included) use linear amplifiers which were not legal to use unless you had a specific license, If recall correctly. These significantly boosted radiated signal which commonly bled over into the telephones of peoples homes, lol, thus the FCC. The CB's themselves could be modified to unlock hidden goodies also, which would also create higher output.

 

I say "Back in the day" although people still currently use these devices.