What to do with noisy guitar pickups ?
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If you are new at making changes to your guitar, I recommend taking it to a local music store.  They should have a reference for who works on guitars.\n\nIf you have active pick-ups, old batteries may be the culprit.  You could have bigger issues like a gounding problem or loose spools.  Replacement isn't a bad thing though.
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Sort of depends on how you connected it. If you used auxillary RCA plugs on your stereo and an adapter cable from the PC to the stereo there should not be a problem. If you tried to go in through a phono jack or unused set of plugs that were intended for some other device you may have enough of an impedence or signal strength mismatch to be causing the problem. Phono jacks for example expect a very, very small signal to be input. a PC inputs a much larger signal and would cause a lot of noise.\n\nCheap cables can also be a problem. A third source of noise can be that you are processing the signal twice. If you are using a software equalizer on your PC and a hardware equalizer on the home stereo then you are overprocessing the signal and that can cause a LOT of Noise!\n\nA ground loop isolater will only lessen or eliminate 60 cycle per second AC hum - like the hum you would get on a badly grounded guitar amplifier with single pole pickups, or the hum caused by flourescent lights. It will not reduce or eliminate any other kind of noise. \n\nWith more info about the nature of the background noise and the input, output and cords you are using someone might be able to give a better answer. Good luck. Finding and eliminating something like this can be a frustrating experience.
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Go to a music store(Guitar Center) and place an add on the post board.Ask them they will hook you up with others...it worked 4 me.
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Absolutely!!  But don't focus on the brand name of the guitar - focus on the sound you want to achieve from your guitar.  What kind of pick-ups and position of the pick-ups best suit your style of music.  Your objective is to use as minimal effects as possible to generate the sound you are looking for.  I say research the pick-ups then go to a music store, sit down and have a good time with the variations of pick-ups, then decide.
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Passive pickups don't need power, and usually have a volume and tone control. The tone control is a treble filter,as you turn the knob you control how much treble is thrown away.\n\nAn active pickup has control circuitry that needs power - usually from a 9 volt battery. The control curcuit enables you to have much more control over the signal produced by the pickup, and therefore the sound the instrument makes.\n\nMost pickups sound best plugged into the high impedence socket on the amp. Most pickups are high impedence, some special ones are low impedence, and can use much longer leads. The difference is quite technical and you don't need to know the details, just go with what sounds best. If in doubt use the high impedance one.\n\nDon't apologise for your lack of knowledge or experience. Everybody was in the same position once. The only stupid question is the one you want to ask but don't!\n\nKeep on rocking!
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I may not have understood your question properly but here goes anyway.  If your Peavey is a combo guitar amp you have a built in pre-amp already.  It is not wise to pre-amp a pre-amp as this can cause excessive distortion, noise and much varied tones other than what you want.  Maybe on the other hand you want it very distorted.  If you have an effects loop on the amp you could go that way..  Into the amp from guitar then out of effects send into pre-amp and then back into amp at effects return.  If no effects loop then go ahead and go through the pre-amp first then into the amp input.  Put the amps channels on clean.  hope this helps
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Download "A Twisted Christmas". Non traditional. Then you could listen to something rockin' instead of what is being played over the speaker system.
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Rule #1 don't buy anything that you cant pick-up and play. Someone said look on eBay. That's foolish advise. Never buy a guitar that you cant physically examine. You just asking for trouble.\n\nMuch of your decision depends on how much money you are willing to spend. \n\nElectric - If you have the money buy a American made Fender or a Gibson. You will be pleased with the quality and the resale value will be better if you decide to sell it.\n\nAcoustic- Martin and high end Alvarez guitars have great sound.
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Depends what sound you want. If you want a traditional strat sound like Jimi Hendrix had, get singlecoils, if you're looking for more of a sound like Jimmy Page or someone else that uses a Les Paul has, get a humbucker.
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If you are a good player you can pluck the guitar with your fingers or a pick.If you are a bad guitar player I can pluck the guitar from you with my hands lol
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go into the control panel and turn system sounds off. it should be under sounds
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Replace the jacks.  These things are not all that expensive.\n\nThe real question is why are the jacks there in the first place.
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Squire Strats are great inexpensive starter electrics.\n\nhttp://www.squierguitars.com/
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i'm more familiar with old ampegs, peaveys, and fenders. however it seems to me from what i've seen and heard of the 6100 that what you are saying sounds corect. a lot depends on what type of music you are playing, and what pickups you are running through it, of course. the crunch channel should give you more of a classic rock blues sound, and the lead should be more of a metal screaming tone, and i would think the lead would have a lot more gain than the other 2 channels. and certainly i would agree that there shouldn't be an excessive amount of 60 cycle noise. one thing i would try to do if you haven't is to set it at the 100 watt setting, i'm sure you had the preamp volume and gain set where you wanted it, as well as had the master turned up a bit. with this amp you should be able to get very clean tones, clapton sounds, as well as guns and roses sounds, but with a little MORE gain. it's hard to describe what it should sound like, you just kind of know. i've been playing for 34 years. my advice would be to either give it a little time and play around with the settings until you get it where you want it, and sounds right to you, or return it if you got it from a store and are not happy with it, or trade it for something you will be happy with. good luck.
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use ultrasonic machine... the sound waves should shatter it to smithereens
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change the heads, paint and laquer them, shine the hardware, get new cymbals, change out any broken hardware, play them cooler (i don't know how cool you play them now, but cooler never hurt)\nand finally\nget a subwoofer for your kick.  when i first saw this guy pull this thing out, i was like "what the heck is that thing?"  and after we miced everything, i knew that i had to have one.  it is the coolest thing ever.  its like a second kick in front of your regular one, and it doesnt get hit but just amplifies the sub heard frequencies.  awesomeness.
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Yes. But first it takes a little understanding of how a pickup is made...this is a bit long, so bear with me.\n\nA pickup is basically a magnet (or series of magnets) wound with a "coil" of very fine wire. When a string is plucked, the magnetic field is disturbed and this disturbance is detected by the windings and sent to the volume control, tone control, output jack, and finally to the amplifier.\n\nA single coil pickup, as you might guess, is one that has just a single set of wire windings. This usually translates into a very bright, thin sound. It also tends to have a little "hum" because of electrical interference. Single coils generally come in 2 forms: the typical single coil or a P90 which looks kind of like a humbucker.\n\nA humbucking pickup is made of 2 or more coils, with at least one of the coils wound in the opposite direction. By doing this it actually "cancels out" (or "bucks") the hum of a single coil and makes for a quieter and thicker tone. Think of the humbucker as a "Hum Bucker". Humbuckers are usually MUCH more powerful than single coils and provide a much richer tone. Humbuckers come in 3 basic forms: the double coil (as seen on many guitars), the stacked coil (looking like a single coil but the coils are stacked on one another) and the mini.\n\nNOW, there are some guitars out there, usually in the $300 or less range, that have what appears to be humbucking pickups but the manufacturer doesn't take the care to make opposite windings so what you get is 2 single coils placed close together without the hum cancelling feature.\n\nNow you know more than most people about pickups!