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Old 01-24-2022, 02:39 PM
Per Burström Per Burström is offline
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Originally Posted by Mandobart View Post
Have you tried not using the HI Z? The high impedance setting is for use with piezoelectric pickups that have an output impedance in the millions of ohms (megohm) range.

Magnetic pickups have one-thousandth (.001 ×) the output impedance of a piezo (kilohm).

Is your Behringer running off battery or AC? It could be a floating ground issue. I would try grounding the case of everything the signal passes through.
The Behringer X18 runs on AC.

I tried to use one of the "normal" (non-HiZ) inputs, and it does indeed make it a little better, but the hum is still present. But as I wrote in my initial post the hum goes away if I rotate the guitar (and thereby the pickup) 90 degrees so the side and not the front of it face my equipment.

Anyway, the hum will not be a problem in the recording anyway as it's drowned by the signal when I actually play the guitar.

A bigger problem though is that the Dean Markley in a very obvious way change the acoustic sound from the guitar. But I guess all sound hole pickups that actually lock to the top of the guitar will do that?!?

Anyone that has experience using the Shadow Nanonmag end of fretboard pickup? That must be the solution with the least effect on the guitars acoustic sound?!?

https://www.customworldguitarparts.c...sh-nmg-pu.html

Edit: Found a thread covering the Nanomag here: https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/...d.php?t=593692

Last edited by Per Burström; 01-24-2022 at 02:45 PM.
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