My Renegade seems to have too much hum on the dirty channel

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Is this normal? Can it be lessened without turning it down? Or did I just get a noisy one? Maybe I'm used to my Rebel 20 too much? It's also too big and heavy in my opinion and needs to go on a diet, other than those two things about it - too noisy and too large, I love it.
 
What kinda guitar, pickups, FX, etc?

Do you have dimmers in your house on the same circuit as your amp?
 
I have the Renegade head and 212X cab and I'm having hum issues also. My guitars are all humbucker equiped , so its not singlecoil hum. I do have quite a few efx pedals and use a boss NS2 , to get ride of the noise from the pedals (and it does) .Some of my pedals go to the front of the amp (VP JR volume pedal,Boss NS2 , Maxon OD808 ,Demeter Compulater ,Digitech SC-2 , Redwitch Empress chorus , Boss BF 3). and and my Boss RV5 , Boss DD20 and MXR 10 band EQ pedals go through the effects loop. This sounds like a 60hz hum to me but I don't have any florescent lights . Any ideas ?? If nothings pluged into the amp - no hum. What are your setup conditions when you get the hum ?
 
wareru2":1zi7bbqg said:
I have the Renegade head and 212X cab and I'm having hum issues also. My guitars are all humbucker equiped , so its not singlecoil hum. I do have quite a few efx pedals and use a boss NS2 , to get ride of the noise from the pedals (and it does) .Some of my pedals go to the front of the amp (VP JR volume pedal,Boss NS2 , Maxon OD808 ,Demeter Compulater ,Digitech SC-2 , Redwitch Empress chorus , Boss BF 3). and and my Boss RV5 , Boss DD20 and MXR 10 band EQ pedals go through the effects loop. This sounds like a 60hz hum to me but I don't have any florescent lights . Any ideas ?? If nothings pluged into the amp - no hum. What are your setup conditions when you get the hum ?
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Well you kinda answered your question. If nothing is plugged into the amp-no hum. So the hum is not caused by the amp. Its your all your other stuff. :) After that you just have to put in the time and find out what pedal is doing it. One at a time take them out of the chain would be a start!
 
Jeff is right on the money.

What kind of power supply. Are you using a OneSpot, or a daisy chain, or a Voodoo labs PP2+ kind of isolated unit?
 
I'm using a "one spot" to power all the pedals. I'm going to try isolating the pedals one at a time next week (I gig every weekend so I don't want to start pulling things apart this late in the week). I'v only had the amp for a week now and really like it (except for the Hum). It just sounds like a 60Hz hum to me. This will be the amps first gig!!!!
 
It's the one spot, I can almost guarantee it.

Especially when you have a single one spot powering pedals in FRONT of your amp, AND in the FX loop.
 
I would agree with the boys here,if nothing is plugged in and no hummm then it ain't the amp :thumbsup:
 
wareru2":92y1weic said:
I'm using a "one spot" to power all the pedals. I'm going to try isolating the pedals one at a time next week (I gig every weekend so I don't want to start pulling things apart this late in the week). I'v only had the amp for a week now and really like it (except for the Hum). It just sounds like a 60Hz hum to me. This will be the amps first gig!!!!
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Fukin one spot...I sold a bunch of amps thinkin they were screwed then got the Voodoo 2+ ...
 
Hey guys, not to hijack my thread or anything but I get hum with nothing plugged in and also with the guitar plugged in and turned all the way down. Not on the clean channel but on the dirty channel it's there and it seems excessive. No florescent lights, no pedals, no effects or other mumbo jumbo.
 
maybe pre amp tube. Do you have a good spare lying around? If so, try swapping the one's in the channel two circuit one at a time.
 
Hey Guys !! Sorry (not trying to hijack this thread)- I thought I'd post here sence I have a hum problem with my Renegade also . Anyway gigged with the amp this weekend and got comments on how good the amp sounded (and it does). So possably the "OneSpot" power supply could be causing the hum problem ? Have any of you used the Gator "G-bus 8" power supply and had good results with it (I have the Gator large pedal tote and it has mounting holes for this power supply)? If not then what do you recamend ? One other thing , I also have a Peavey Classic 50 ,212 and a Peavey Valveking 212 and when I run my pedalboard through eather one of these amps , I don't have the hum problem. What do you think?
 
FWIW, I have the One Spot powering my pedals and I do not get any hum. All of my pedals are in front of the amp though, I have not yet tried running with anything in the loop.
 
I would also try plugging in to a different outlet, maybe even in a different room- Something on a different "electrical line" so to speak. You'd be amazed at what things like appliances and lights and things like that can do to noise over a guitar amp.

One other thing: What constitutes "too much noise" is a bit in the ears of the beholder. I'm not really familiar with the Renegade- But the Tourmaster heavy overdrive channel is a bit noisy. It isn't anything wrong with anything- It's just that it has so much gain it is a little bit noisy.

:D :)
 
Well my wonderful new Renegade, besides seeming to be humming too loudly has now developed a behavior when you first turn it on where it sounds like loud gunshots are being fired (and it concerns me for my speakers) and the amp volume is about a quarter of what it should be. Finally after it warms up for about 15 minutes it seems back to normal with just the hum.

What should I do? Am I going to have to send this someplace? This is frustrating with a brand new amp.
 
Darklight":jy8e8lti said:
Well my wonderful new Renegade, besides seeming to be humming too loudly has now developed a behavior when you first turn it on where it sounds like loud gunshots are being fired (and it concerns me for my speakers) and the amp volume is about a quarter of what it should be. Finally after it warms up for about 15 minutes it seems back to normal with just the hum.

What should I do? Am I going to have to send this someplace? This is frustrating with a brand new amp.
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Have you contacted John at Egnater?
 
That sounds like tubes to me. Contact Egnater. When I had a similar problem they sent me new tubes for free. If it is an output problem I would try the power tubes first.

:confused: :rock:
 
Darklight":4r0z9t0z said:
Well my wonderful new Renegade, besides seeming to be humming too loudly has now developed a behavior when you first turn it on where it sounds like loud gunshots are being fired (and it concerns me for my speakers) and the amp volume is about a quarter of what it should be. Finally after it warms up for about 15 minutes it seems back to normal with just the hum.

What should I do? Am I going to have to send this someplace? This is frustrating with a brand new amp.
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Sounds like bad power tubes to me. But definitely call john.
 
Hey darklight ! Is your hum just on Channel 2 , or is it on both channel's ? Mine is on both channel's - I'm kind of thinking that mayby my "OneSpot" ,could be causing the problem!!! So has anyone had a simmiler problem using this power supply and if so what did they replace it with that fixed the problem ? Your shooting/poping sound doesn't sound good . I would call Egnater on that!! Oh yeh--whats your signal path ? I hope we can get these problems taken care of .
 
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