I have lowered the pickups on my 3 single coil guitar way down low, close to the pick-guard plate, any lower will need longer screws and springs. The tone is OK, and through the 40 watt valve amp (at bedroom volume) the guitar sounds good. Better than with the 15 Watt transistor amp. The problem is that a lot of noise comes through to the amp. If I turn down the guitar volume, the amp is quiet enough, as soon as I open up the guitar volume, the irritating noise is present. (The noise is less when I "earth" my hand on the bridge, as is apparently normal.)
This noise from single coil pickups is normal they say, I play close to LED (240 volt type) lights, some other electrical items are around, I know the supply voltage is not clean, but the amp is quiet enough when the guitar volume is turned down... This seems to be a problem with electrical noise picked up by the single coils, but please do not advise me to buy a noise gate, I am trying to get away from more pedals (with their own power supply hum) and extra peripherals.
Question: Seeing as I play guitar, not bass, and the lowest frequency the low E string is supposed to give (at 440 Hz standard tuning) is around 82 Hz, is it viable to insert a cut-off filter in the line to the amp, to cut off any signal under about 70 Hz? Seeing as I am forced to build some hum-eliminating filter box for the pedal supplies, I might as well do the same for the guitar - amp line.
I still have to test with humbucker guitars, as well as try different guitar leads, as well as switch off lights and stuff. And compare side-by-side with the solid state amp. But likely it is the low-output old single coils picking up electrical noise.
This noise from single coil pickups is normal they say, I play close to LED (240 volt type) lights, some other electrical items are around, I know the supply voltage is not clean, but the amp is quiet enough when the guitar volume is turned down... This seems to be a problem with electrical noise picked up by the single coils, but please do not advise me to buy a noise gate, I am trying to get away from more pedals (with their own power supply hum) and extra peripherals.
Question: Seeing as I play guitar, not bass, and the lowest frequency the low E string is supposed to give (at 440 Hz standard tuning) is around 82 Hz, is it viable to insert a cut-off filter in the line to the amp, to cut off any signal under about 70 Hz? Seeing as I am forced to build some hum-eliminating filter box for the pedal supplies, I might as well do the same for the guitar - amp line.
I still have to test with humbucker guitars, as well as try different guitar leads, as well as switch off lights and stuff. And compare side-by-side with the solid state amp. But likely it is the low-output old single coils picking up electrical noise.