Help! Noise issue with new FM3

Egraham93

Egraham93

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I made a post the other day about getting noise on the decay of palm mutes. Sounds like interference. I’ve literally tried everything I can think of, including tons of different gate settings and I can’t get it to go away. I don’t have a way to record what I’m hearing at the moment.I’ve tried input 1 and input 2. Different cables, a whole slew of everything I was told to do on the FM3 fb group. No matter what I do the interference is there even if heavily heavily gated. I’m running straight into a laney lfr112 powered FRFR speaker . I tried this through my computer monitors and the interference is there still. It’s not my guitar as I’ve tried several.

im at my wits end with this. I’ve never had this issue with any other gear. I had a FM3 before that did the same thing and I sold it. I bought another one thinking it was my unit and it still prevails.

I post a link to a video that shows the noise. It’s not as loud in the video as it is in person
 
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You can upload a video to YouTube and link it here. I think we can help better if we hear it.
 
chris said:
Do you mean the high pitched noise? Or the low pitch noise as the palm mute decays?
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The interference sounding noise right after the palm mute. It might be hard to pick up in the video but it’s pretty bad in person and very apparent.
 
If it sounds like interference. Itight be just that. Did you try it in a different room/outlet? Are you near electrical appliances?

ETA. Yes..sounds like electrical interference to me. Try another outlet or room. Or moving position.
This might not be an FM3 issue
 
That’s electromagnetic interference getting into your guitar and dying out when your noise gate kicks in.

Temporarily disable your noise gate. The nose will be constant. Move and rotate around the room until you minimize the interference. That’s a quick-and-dirty fix.
 
Rex said:
That’s electromagnetic interference getting into your guitar and dying out when your noise gate kicks in.

Temporarily disable your noise gate. The nose will be constant. Move and rotate around the room until you minimize the interference. That’s a quick-and-dirty fix.
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I’ve tried different rooms and moving around. Plus different outlets. All the same outcome. Never had this issue with the hx stomp whatsoever.
 
Egraham93 said:
I’ve tried different rooms and moving around. Plus different outlets. All the same outcome. Never had this issue with the hx stomp whatsoever.
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With the noise gate tuned off, walking around and turning around with your guitar strapped on makes no change at all? That’s odd. What happens when you unplug your guitar cable completely?
 
Egraham93 said:
It’s dead quiet until I go to plug it into the guitar which makes the typical noise
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That means the interference is getting in through your guitar. The fact that it doesn't change when you move around is absolutely puzzling, though.

When you turn the Threshold all the way down, the interference is constant, right? While it's constant, hold your guitar and turn in a 360° circle. Is there really no change at all?
 
try a different guitar, or different guitar cable, or both, use a power conditioner if not already using it, be sure your amp is plugged into same, check your electrical circuit be sure there is a grounded circuit, turn off all dimmers in the house or room/circuit. take the setup to another location i.e. home studio etc. and test... my guess is if not guitar a bad guitar cable...
 
Rex said:
That means the interference is getting in through your guitar. The fact that it doesn't change when you move around is absolutely puzzling, though.

When you turn the Threshold all the way down, the interference is constant, right? While it's constant, hold your guitar and turn in a 360° circle. Is there really no change at all
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Rex said:
That means the interference is getting in through your guitar. The fact that it doesn't change when you move around is absolutely puzzling, though.

When you turn the Threshold all the way down, the interference is constant, right? While it's constant, hold your guitar and turn in a 360° circle. Is there really no change at all?
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There’s some interference when the gate is off but it literally doesn’t change no matter where I move. When I have it heavily gated, and I’ve tried tons of different settings it still comes through after palm mutes.

I literally don’t know at this point how to solve this. It does it in every room
 
DaveO said:
try a different guitar, or different guitar cable, or both, use a power conditioner if not already using it, be sure your amp is plugged into same, check your electrical circuit be sure there is a grounded circuit, turn off all dimmers in the house or room/circuit. take the setup to another location i.e. home studio etc. and test... my guess is if not guitar a bad guitar cable...
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I’ve literally tried all of this. I’ve checked everything. I’m plugged into a furman power conditioner. It does it on all of my guitars. No matter the cable or anything. I’ve even tried it through my computer monitors with the same result. At this point I’m considering just selling the thing as it’s not usable with all the excess noise going on. I had a different modeler a weak ago and used it’s gate and never had any of these issues whatsoever
 
Also, try powering off your computer or other devices to try to find the source of the interference. Phones. Dimmer switches. Even expensive computers often have cheap power supplies or cases that emit a lot of RF/EMI.

If you weren't hearing it before that may be because it was being gated more aggressively, or maybe a different product didn't have the bandwidth to reveal this problem in your environment.
 
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