Static in my house playing guitar

[robbocop33]

Strange one this,moved to another house recently and it doesn't matter what guitar i use,what amp i use,what guitar leads i use i get static crackle on everything and it's really spoling my enjoyment of them all,even using different wall sockets same thing!
Beginning to think it's 'me' lol,do i have to get someone in to play my gear?Hope he's not better than me and shows me up! ;-)

[Samcat]

Do you have any Fluorescent lights on, they can put terrible noise on the mains.
The fridge or the freezer can be a bit mains noisy too.
Don't let anyone decent play your gear, no-one needs that reality check!

[languagetimothy]

New house, not a dodgy carpet creating static is it?

[macdaddy11]

I've found that the two way landing light wiring gives me static. In two houses if the landing light is on then I get static, if I switch it off, it goes away. It's something to do with the wiring method, I think you can achieve the same two way switching for the landing light by using a triple core wire, but I think that's a lot of work to do and I can't remember the method.

Otherwise, as others have said, the interference can come from multiple sources. Fridge, cooker, neon tubes, transformers etc. I found that a guitar with a humbucker is better, but I still like to play my single coils now and then.

[robbocop33]

languagetimothy said:

New house, not a dodgy carpet creating static is it?

Never thought of that,although i put the amp and me and tge amp on the bed off the floor and it's still bad,it's just instant crackle when i touch the strings or even when i tap the leads.

[Samcat]

That sounds like a bad Earth on your ring main, the Earth may be connected, but have some resistance in it.

[OldSkoolRS]

I sometimes do guitar repairs on our kitchen worktop and have a small Fender Champ style amp to test through. I found our old GU10 Fluorescent bulbs cause noise, especially on the single coil guitars, but it was an easy test to turn them off. I replaced them with LED ones and the noise has gone now, but I have come across other lighting causing issues (notably one at a venue we sometimes play at, even humbuckers couldn't stop it!).

Could also be a bad screen connection on the guitar/cable/amp or even if you use a pedal: I've sometimes had issues with the smaller patch cables on my pedalboard causing noise until I give them a wiggle.

[Rh14n]

There's a simple solution to this ... go acoustic

[Nethybridge]

I got that with all my P90 SGs and on my Ricky 330, it's one lot of bother
but screening the cavity with conductive paint and/or adhesive metal foil AND
the cavity cover with the foil is a definite fix, although TBH the foil fix didn't work on the 330
for some reason, maybe the PUs are humbuckers, I don't know.