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Forum Ringside => Tech => Topic started by: MrBump on February 18, 2009, 07:41:06 PM

Title: Bloody French Radio!!!
Post by: MrBump on February 18, 2009, 07:41:06 PM
What the hell is French radio doing coming through my amp?!?!

It only arrives when I turn the volume on my Charvel down slightly from full...

Is this an earth fault?  With the guitar, or the amp?

I don't speak French.  Someone please help...

Mark.
Title: Re: Bloody French Radio!!!
Post by: James C on February 18, 2009, 09:27:27 PM
Not sure what the fault is, if that happened to me i'd be in the corner of a room rocking forwards asking the voices to stop! i've only heard of radio signals being pcked up by wireless receivers before.
Title: Re: Bloody French Radio!!!
Post by: maverickf1jockey on February 18, 2009, 10:44:56 PM
Your guitar is acting like a very inefficient aerial and the signal is being picked up by the electrics and amplified by the amp.
No amount of shielding and potting will remove the problem of microphony entirely and the same goes for electromagnetic interference.
Turning on a CRT monitor will drown out those wily Frenchmen.
Title: Re: Bloody French Radio!!!
Post by: Philly Q on February 18, 2009, 11:14:58 PM
What the hell is French radio doing coming through my amp?!?!


I don't speak French.  Someone please help...

If you did speak French, d'you think they'd be explaining why they're interfering with your amp?  :wink:
Title: Re: Bloody French Radio!!!
Post by: Tellboy on February 19, 2009, 10:28:29 AM
Perhaps your amp has a dicky tickeur  :lol:
Title: Re: Bloody French Radio!!!
Post by: gingataff on February 19, 2009, 02:26:59 PM
Perhaps your amp has a dicky tickeur  :lol:
I don't usually do this, but.. LOL  :lol:
Title: Re: Bloody French Radio!!!
Post by: maverickf1jockey on February 19, 2009, 05:42:51 PM
'Allo! 'Allo! This eez Lon-Don calling Night'awk! Come een Night'awk! Little Red Riding Hood should not visit her grandmother today; ze wolf is in ze negligée. (or some such wash)

Gud moaning!
Title: Re: Bloody French Radio!!!
Post by: MrBump on February 19, 2009, 07:19:11 PM
Enough!
Title: Re: Bloody French Radio!!!
Post by: Adam.M on February 19, 2009, 07:57:46 PM
Ahhh, always cracks me up when this happens! good ol' valve amps...


Title: Re: Bloody French Radio!!!
Post by: Madiac on February 20, 2009, 04:58:40 PM
Ahhh, always cracks me up when this happens! good ol' valve amps...




Haha, i think i managed to pick some kind of radio up on my solid state warwick bass amp some time ago, but just for brief seconds. And haha to mavericks comment  :lol:
Title: Re: Bloody French Radio!!!
Post by: Sunny87 on February 26, 2009, 02:26:50 PM
This happens to me but I get German radio on an old 1975 Marshall SS, all I have to do is leave the Jack plugged in and that’s it I'm learning German lol, there's nothing you can do about it just touch the jack while it's plugged in and it should stop for a while.
My valve stack doesn’t do it though and their next to each other.
Title: Re: Bloody French Radio!!!
Post by: Tellboy on February 26, 2009, 05:22:50 PM
This happens to me but I get German radio on an old 1975 Marshall SS,

As it's German presumably you're getting all the stuff about 'The Fallen Madonna vith ze Big Boobies' ?
Title: Re: Bloody French Radio!!!
Post by: maverickf1jockey on February 26, 2009, 06:30:13 PM
Do not be absurd, Smallhousen!
Title: Re: Bloody French Radio!!!
Post by: MrBump on February 26, 2009, 08:34:58 PM
Curiouser and curiouser....

I wonder what the furthest reaching language that can be picked up on an old amplifier?

French is the national language of some African countries, I believe - that means I win unless there are other genuine plaintiffs...

Mark.
Title: Re: Bloody French Radio!!!
Post by: Andrew W on February 26, 2009, 09:55:40 PM
Curiouser and curiouser....

I wonder what the furthest reaching language that can be picked up on an old amplifier?

French is the national language of some African countries, I believe - that means I win unless there are other genuine plaintiffs...

Mark.

I'm still attempting to calibrate the valves on my amp to pick up Test Match Special but no luck as yet.  I think Henry Blofeld with a touch of spring reverb would be superb.
Title: Re: Bloody French Radio!!!
Post by: maverickf1jockey on February 27, 2009, 04:41:01 PM
Friend was telling me about getting eastern European radio so I think you can get some way, especially with shortwave transmission.
Title: Re: Bloody French Radio!!!
Post by: matteo on March 02, 2009, 09:11:04 PM
my peavey vypyr 30  does this aswell!!! only in certain rooms in the house though?????? weird?   :?