Re: hum cancelling

[paulpop@ssnet.com (Paul Poplawski, Phd)]

>>I'm having continuous problems with humming. With my setup slowly getting
>>more elaborate and containing more devices and cables, it's getting 
>worse,
>>and I'm already at the point where the humming is so bad I can't do any
>>recordings at home which are good enough for publication. I would love to
>>get one of these new 8-track disc recording machines, and make my own
>>CD-ready recordings, but as long as there is audible humming no matter 
>what
>>I do, this wouldn't be worth it.
>>
>>Any general ideas what to do about this? Simply turning around the cables
>>doesn't seem to help. Is there hope at all? Is it possible to run a heap 
>of
>>devices (2 computers, recorders, tuner/amplifiers and CD players, an old
>>Minimoog, sampler, DAT, loop delays, volume and other pedals, Vortex,
>>guitars, reverb) connected by a jungle of cables, without having any
>>disturbing hums? There's not enough space and I can't afford setting up
>>a professional studio in my room.
>>
>>-Michael
>


I have found that alot of hum can be cause by AC strips and/or the
particular placement of wall-warts in relation to other wall warts or AC
strips.  Move things around and see how the hum changes.  I don't think it
is cabling