tubelessone
Inspired
About a month ago I was excited to move from my AX8 to my FM3. I worked on it for a few days and had some patches ready for a show, and then when I turned on the FM3, I got "BUZZZZZ" whenever I engaged anything but squeaky clean. Any drive block, unusable. That was a terrible show, I basically played it all on the CA3 clean (it's covers, so I need a lot of tones). I had tried plugging straight into the FM3 bypassing my other pedals ( Freqout, Drop, and MXR A/B) and nothing. Different plugs, etc. Then I did some major Googling and thread searching, determined my EMI/RFI was too intense, because it didn't matter if I put my guitar in positions 2/4. It was awful. I went through all the stages of grief and I was ready to sell the unit. I had written a long post here, longer than this one if you can imagine lol, and before I hit post I thought, am I really gonna be that guy that says "I can't fix da noize "?? I went back and again tried to remove each external pedal one at a time. First one off the chain was the Digitech Drop, and HOLY COW, the noise went away. WUT. I'm not sure what it was doing but it was making the line super dirty. It's on a OneSpot so I thought it would be ok. I went back to the patches I had created which caused me grief, and they were way quieter. I can still hear some base hum, which is normal, but the unit is usable now.
All that to say that if you're encountering noise and buzz issues and you have the Digitech Drop, take that out first and see what happens.
My theory based on nothing at all would be that a combination of a non-isolated power to it, and the circuitry inside it caused it to be an EMI magnet.
All that to say that if you're encountering noise and buzz issues and you have the Digitech Drop, take that out first and see what happens.
My theory based on nothing at all would be that a combination of a non-isolated power to it, and the circuitry inside it caused it to be an EMI magnet.