Electric Guitar and Amp Help

[blueg33]

My son has a Gibson Explorer guitar and a Fender 65r amp. He has just bough tthe amp. There seems to alot of hissing as background noise from the amp, although this goes away if the guitar is unplugged. His old amp seemed to have less hissing but was a much cheaper starter amp.

My questions are as follows:

Is the hiss normal? If so how can it be reduced?
Is it a fault with the guitar, the amp or the lead (lead is quite new)

As far as I am aware the kit he has is good quality, but the hiss is very annoying and detracts from quieter pieces.

Thanks in adavance

Nick

[Animal]

Crap lead? Take it into a guitar shop and ask to try it against a couple of others.

[Si_steve]

I'd say crap lead aswell or possibly a dodgy connection in the lead. Ive had cables less than a day old go like this, but saying that they were thrown around an awful lot into vans, around stage floors etc.

I used to use planet waves cables if their still on the go, they seemed to put up with it more and had a good sound to them.

[davepoth]

Could be a bad earth in the guitar. That or he's turned everything up to 11.

[blueg33]

davepoth said:

Could be a bad earth in the guitar. That or he's turned everything up to 11.

Its always turned right up!

We sorted it with a new lead.

Thanks