Load box started squealing last night

[Ed DeGenaro]

Some times simple things work.
Try a passive Bugera power soak .
I’ve been dragging one around with me for ages because it just works
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Except it won’t help FA with ground loops.

 

[Dave Lewis]

Except it won’t help FA with ground loops.

Passive boxes don’t help ?
I will always use passive in my studio if I can .
It stops multitudes of problems .

 

[MirrorProfiles]

Passive boxes don’t help ?
I will always use passive in my studio if I can .
It stops multitudes of problems .

the one he’s using is also a passive load. Resistive loads suck arse in 2025

 

[Mikael Dez]

Passive boxes don’t help ?
I will always use passive in my studio if I can .
It stops multitudes of problems .

You don’t need to hit the space bar between the end of your sentence and your punctuation.

This.
Not this .

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

Passive boxes don’t help ?
I will always use passive in my studio if I can .
It stops multitudes of problems .

You get ground loops with passive boxes just the same.
Guitar into amp into attenuator into cab isn’t gonna get you a ground loops
Run a line out to daw or fx and the story changes.

 

[GuitarBilly74]

Passive boxes don’t help ?
I will always use passive in my studio if I can .
It stops multitudes of problems .

It depends of what the box is connecting to . If it's connecting to another passive source, like a cab, no problem.

But if it's connecting your amp to a computer, both the amp and the computer have grounds so you need isolation.

I second the Lehle P-Split recommendation.

 

[KingsXJJ]

Good stuff to know.

 

[Chocol8]

Resistive loads suck arse in 2025

Just like they did from 1925 until 2024 as well.

 

[gearJunkie]

Lehle P Split

 

[FuzzyAce]

I didn't consider that Drew can rock fart too hard while not even playing, but who knows!

FIFY

Maybe it wasn't the amp squealing?

 

[DrewJD82]

Hahahahah.....it was the battery in my Gilmour Strat.

I picked it up an hour ago to play, turned the amp on and maybe 45 seconds later it started the noise again. Turned off the amp, moved the Suhr RL to the top of my AxeFX rack, plug in and it's the same thing. "Ok, fuck the amp for tonight, I want to play" and plug straight into the AxeFX...."EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" (actually it's more of a Mrrrrrrrrr), grabbed my other Strat and the noise was gone.

It's been over a year since I've changed that battery and I've left it plugged in for way too long the last week, fair 'nuff.

Still going to get some isolation going on in here, no point in waiting for something to happen.

 

[FuzzyAce]

Hahahahah.....it was the battery in my Gilmour Strat.

I picked it up an hour ago to play, turned the amp on and maybe 45 seconds later it started the noise again. Turned off the amp, moved the Suhr RL to the top of my AxeFX rack, plug in and it's the same thing. "Ok, fuck the amp for tonight, I want to play" and plug straight into the AxeFX...."EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" (actually it's more of a Mrrrrrrrrr), grabbed my other Strat and the noise was gone.

It's been over a year since I've changed that battery and I've left it plugged in for way too long the last week, fair 'nuff.

Still going to get some isolation going on in here, no point in waiting for something to happen.

EMG!!!

 

[EOengineer]

 

[Chocol8]

Glad you found it!