ok i was setting up me pedal boared (for guitar) I ran it lik this. Guitar -> EQ->Distorion->Cry baby wah->Amp
i ran out of patch cords to connect all the pedals,so i took the patch cord iuse on my PA. system. this patch cord is diffrent than a standard guitar cabel. it is thiner and looks like head phone wires. anyways i used that cord to patch my wah to my amp. wen i turned everything on, everything was normal. however wen i turned my wah wah pedal(the cry baby) and opend it complelty i picked up radio signals. i tried the set up again, but i replaced the PA patch cord with a standard guitar patch chord, and i didnt pick up any signals. so i took the pa. patch cord and the wah and pluged them into a diffrent amp (Line 6 spider 2) and tried it again. this time i only picked up the signal when the wah was half way open.
so the point is, wen i run a set up lik this: guitar->standard patch cord->cry baby wah pedal->pa patch cord->amp
i pick up radio signals
SOME ONE PLEASE EXPLAIN!!!
2006-11-01 09:22:09 · 3 answers · asked by RockerTillDeath 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
my boyfriend plays guitar...give me a minute and i'll call and ask him if he knows what's goin on...i'll get back with ya
ok...he really didn't know your problem exactly, but he said it might be this: he said make sure the PA patch cable is an instrument cable, as opposed to a microphone cable or something along the lines of that. sorry if that doesn't help
2006-11-01 09:26:09 · answer #1 · answered by I♥him 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The post above mine is right... the unshielded cable is not insulated enough to keep out the radio signals. You might want to go to the music store and buy yourself a shorty. 1 foot quarter inch jacked patch chords only run a few bucks apiece.
You might consider buying yourself an all-in-one board, like a POD or something. It makes live playing a lot easier, when you don't have to wire up your floor pedals like a computer network. :-)
2006-11-03 02:40:33 · answer #2 · answered by evolver 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The speaker cord you added is unshielded while the guitar cords are.
Non-shielded cords should never be used between guitar/effects/amps, nor should guitar cables ever be used between power amp/speakers.
2006-11-01 09:30:46 · answer #3 · answered by bikeworks 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋