What do you guys use to clean up your sound and power ?

[Stone]

I have a couple Greenwave filters plugged into the wall in my music room that I plug a couple Furman power conditioner strips in to. (Which I then run all my gear to)

Yes ive yet to try that but i will

 

[MirrorProfiles]

anyone installed a galvanic isolation transformer to their mains, or put in a new ground spike?

 

[Alex Kenivel]

anyone installed a galvanic isolation transformer to their mains, or put in a new ground spike?

Last year we had a new main panel installed with surge protection and two new ground spikes

 

[MirrorProfiles]

Last year we had a new main panel installed with surge protection and two new ground spikes

did it make much difference? i have a new unit going in with surge protection and a new ground spike on monday.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

did it make much difference? i have a new unit going in with surge protection and a new ground spike on monday.

Not that I can tell.

Good luck with the install. We had to relocate our main panel to the other side of the house away from the gas line for insurance reasons. This meant we had to run all new copper wiring from main panel to subpanel. Nearly $4,000 just for the copper

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Problem with RF? You could do what Hear Studios did early pandemic -- take the time to, ya know, wrap your whole building in copper mesh:

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Problem with RF? You could do what Hear Studios did early pandemic -- take the time to, ya know, wrap your whole building in copper mesh:

View attachment 33259View attachment 33260

Copper prices today are $3.5k more than what they were in 2019 per metric ton

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Copper prices today are $3.5k more than what they were in 2019 per metric ton

Hear Studios is a riff on the owners last name: Hearst. As in, https://www.forbes.com/profile/hearst/

I don't think dude cared about the cost.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Hear Studios is a riff on the owners last name: Hearst. As in, https://www.forbes.com/profile/hearst/

I don't think dude cared about the cost.

I didn't know that! I've been to the castle but I was a little too young to remember anything but me playing around in it.

 

[la szum]

Yes ive yet to try that but i will

Greenwave 2500i AC Filter Review

This is a review and detailed measurements of the Greenwave 2500i AC line filter. It was kindly purchased by a member and drop shipped to me. It costs US $35 each. Can't say it is the prettiest thing in the world but I guess you can plug it into AC where it is not seen. Using it with my power...

www.audiosciencereview.com

 

[Frankencat]

I use a Tripp power conditioner and voltage regulator from the wall. Then out to a Furman PL-8 Pro power strip. I have a whole house surge protector as well. It’s pretty quiet.

 

[david57strat]

In the racks, I've been using Furman Pl Plus II units forever. I'm not really using rack stuff much, any more (I've veered back over to dedicated pedals).

On the floor, I use Furman PST-8 strips.

For pedalboard power (depending on which board), I use:

1. a pair of Strymon Zumas and an Ojai expansion kit on the Classic Pro,
2. a Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 3 Plus on the Classic Jr,
3. a CIOKS DC-7 with 8-port expansion kit on the Classic 2,
4. A DC-7 stand-alone on the Nano Max board, while:
5. board #5 (a second pedaltrain Classic 2) has no power supply yet. I'm considering trying out a Walrus Canvas 15.

They're all great units, but the most flexible and powerful of the bunch are the CIOKS DC-7s. They run dead quiet, weigh next to nothing, and have adjustable voltage outputs (9, 12, 15, or 18 volts) on every tap, with 660mAh max output on each output.

Sometimes I use an Ebtech Hum X for my old Fender Ultimate chorus, and the quiets it down a lot.

 

[sleewell]

 

[ctreitzell]

My preference is to use a multiple amp WDW routing. My rack has proven to have issues, so I have to troubleshoot and rewire that. Rack has been out of commission for a while now...at least a year.

So, I had been playing through a Fender CyberTwin SE and running the speaker outs to a couple EV 12L Classic spread very wide. This producing much less (ground loop) noise. I did notice a bit of fizz at the attack of every note and guessed it was power noise. Well, no, it's CyberTwin junk power amp.

I found that out after not realizing (for 20 years) that CyberTwin line out can feed a power amp of user choice (doh!) I had just assumed it was for direct recording or direct to FOH. I tried my VHT amps and oh my, the glory!!! Fizz is gone and gorgeous tube amp power. Makes the CTs sound awesome.

I also tracked down ground loops from socket to socket in my office studio. We had a new board installed in 2019 and the electricians were unable to deliver the power requirements I asked for. Nevertheless, I have three sockets in a good place and in France power is 230v. If I get power from the right place, operation is very quiet for electrical noise.

I also use an APC BackUPS 1500 Pro which can be very helpful taming electrical noise. There is an electrical filter section that cleans out wireless interference as my main router and Devolo wifi DA is that same room.

In Europe and the UK, our power is definitely more clean than in USA, for example. In the UK I seldom had any electrical noise issues.

That said, yesterday, at my residence in France, my APC shut off the AC due to "electrical noise". It only went to DC for a short while, but nevertheless it cut power for a noise blast.

 

[DrewJD82]

Nothin’ but tone detergent here. You’d think adding gain to existing gain would make it worse, but this stuff is pretty good.