Re: Constant buzzing - can it be killed!

["Kris Hartung" <khartung@q.com>]

Maybe this would be more promising:

http://www.tripplite.com/en/products/model.cfm?txtModelID=229

Isolation transformers must have gone down in price?. I found that the 
really high wattage ones are expensive, which I don't need.

Kris



----- Original Message ----- 
> Thanks, Bill. We do indeed have the energy saving bulbs here. However, I 
> turned all the lights off in the house and the buzz persised.
>
> Would this do the trick? 
> http://www.furmansound.com/product.php?div=01&id=AC-215A_PRO
>
> Kris
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>
>
>> Hey kris if this has become a recent phenomena, it might be due to  
>using 
>> the new energy saving fluorescent light bulbs. I was getting ton  of 
>> extra noise until I realized they were the culprit and any room on  the 
>> same circuit as mine like the bathroom had to have the lights  replaced 
>> with standard incandescent bulbs. I still have some issues  with buzz 
>and 
>> also with proximity to transformers in my room, example:  if I set my 
>> guitar to close to my furman power conditioner  my guitar  buzzes.  It 
>> may be that my power conditioner is old enough (+20 years)  now that 
>some 
>> of its filter capacitors are getting old and noisy. The  real solution 
>> would be getting an isolation transformer for your  studio room, but 
>they 
>> aren't cheap,  some costing upwards of $1000  dollars or more  and they 
>> tend to be pretty massive them selves. Try  changing the lights first, 
>> that may clear up your problem.
>>  Bill
>