Marshall Amp/French FM Radio?? WTF??!!!

Oeneus

Can anyone please tell me why the f*ck my TSL100 is picking up a french Radio station?

I was just jamming away and I could here someone talking out from my cab. I twiddled a few knobs and cranked the gain up a bit to try and improve the reception, and there's bloody frogs chatting in my damn Amp!!

John

lol, can't help you but I can laugh.

NeMiSiS

By any chance were you using a Wah pedal at the time.. Think of it this way.. guitar = arial, wah = tuner, cab well uh a cabs a speaker whatever way you look at it. Happend me the odd time.. but was a German station.

Tom

Oeneus

Nope. No wah in the system. there was a Line 6 DL4, phaser, and DS-1 going through but none of them were turned on at the time.

bombidol

that happens on my marshall. but not on any of my other amps. I reckon theres something not sheilded in there.

Eoin Madsen

Yeah, it sounds like an unshielded amp circuit, or even more likely an unshielded lead.

Mr. CooL ICE

Eoin Madsen wrote:

Yeah, it sounds like an unshielded amp circuit, or even more likely an unshielded lead.

If its a lead, what you could try doing is covering the lead in tin foil, shiny side out (i think). As for the problem possibly coming from the amp, i dunno. Try covering it in tinfoil?

It wasn't me!

Not unheard of. Tom Morello picked up that kind of interference through his JCM800 while he was recording Sleep Now In The Fire. Seems to be a characteristic of Marshall amps.

feylya

Try a different power outlet. It's a really common thing.

WetDaddy

Have you tried to talking to them? Give it a shout. Keep going for an hour or two. And you might need to shout.

;-)

Actually, this happened to me years ago, but strangely enough it was a tiny 15w Vantage amp and a GERMAN radio station!

Eoin Madsen

LordChessington wrote:

If its a lead, what you could try doing is covering the lead in tin foil, shiny side out (i think). As for the problem possibly coming from the amp, i dunno. Try covering it in tinfoil?

Eh... I guess you could. It wouldn't matter too much which side, as long as you connected the foil to earth (preferably only at the grounding end, ie the amp). But, em... buying a proper lead might be easier, tbh. A Planet Waves will sort you right out.

Oeneus

Is it worth me mentioning that I was using a Planet Waves cable at the time?

Doctor J

It's probably the power supply. When I was jamming with Dabhoys he used to get some radio through his PRS/Mesa/Planet Waves etc setup, but only from a particular outlet in the room we rehearsed in.

feylya

Why not just shout into your pickups and try and transmit to the radio station

-=al=-

u ever see vai's live in the astoria, where billy sheehan and vai talk to each other by shouting into the pickups!? its a nice trick

+ i can only ever get german stations, i havnt gotten any from my tsl but i did from a little danelectro and a Mg30 before + only with the wah on.......

Eoin Madsen

Oeneus wrote:

Is it worth me mentioning that I was using a Planet Waves cable at the time?

Did you have the right end plugged in to the amp?

Your TSL is gay, buy a real man's amp instead.

david

Like what?!

A big dirty Mesa or Engl... mmmmm

Oeneus

TSL100 is God!

Actually. A JMP-1 with a the dual block 100w power amp is probably better! Mmmmm...

feylya

Triaxis with a 2:90 tbh.