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Ok, today's the day I start my shielding project om my 2017 Les Paul Classic.

Thanks everyone for their tips, I'm sure I'll be around the site today. Probably posting dumb questions.

Thanks everybody for the patience, and I'll see you all as this progresses.
 
guitarweasel said:
In all honesty I have never had to shield a guitar with Humbuckers. Is your's that noisy?
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Not for playing with band, by myself etc...

But def hear recording noise, and I have a low resource recording setup, so hoping to just improve noise floor. I Think it's the monitor, and I need that on as I'm tracking.

With my Strat, I just identify the 60 cycle hum, and using an effect in the DAW just remove, but the L.P. noise is dfficult to isolate to remove.

I hope what I typed is decipherable, I'm not an recording engineer, just an enthusiast lol.
 
@guitarweasel I have a furman power conditioner, and outlet strip. This is what my amp, computer, monitors, are all going through.

Power cords separated from audio, no pedalboard power supplies.

All cables are of the type/ variety specified, speaker cables for the cabs, interconnect cables where called for.

Also, am recording mainly direct with cab i.r.'s, the noise changes dependent of which direction I'm facing. As I spin 360 it ebbs and flows?

Like I said before, it's very acceptable in person sound, just can hear the guitars in the dynamic ares.
 
Thanks,

I think I'm gonna need it. I've reached my highest level of incompetence .

And here I am lol.

Thanks to helpful people I expect this to mitigated without loss of blood?
 
steveb63 said:
Not for playing with band, by myself etc...

But def hear recording noise, and I have a low resource recording setup, so hoping to just improve noise floor. I Think it's the monitor, and I need that on as I'm tracking.

With my Strat, I just identify the 60 cycle hum, and using an effect in the DAW just remove, but the L.P. noise is dfficult to isolate to remove.

I hope what I typed is decipherable, I'm not an recording engineer, just an enthusiast lol.
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Perfect explanation...
 
Listen to the noise as Rory introduces the band. I hear so many musicians (especially single coil fans) who sound like this and who just accept this kind of racket - and even embrace it- as if it's part of getting that "certain sound."



My rig is dead quiet, even running cascading gain stages and shielding is a big part of that...I cannot stand a noisy signal chain!!!!!
 
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