After 20 years of gigging with a PRS McCarty on the coil tap setting mostly,
and a year or so of using a Zendrive, Microtron, and Wampler ‘Black ‘65 as my basic tone shapers, last night was my first gig with a NOS Stratoblaster ( in a MIM Strat with Fender Custom Shop ‘57/‘62 pickups) and an Earth Drive set in a loop as a clean boost, thru my Music Man RD 112 Fifty with a ceramic Tone Tubby and 1 x 12 Mesa with an old D120F JBL.
Imagine my delight when soundcheck revealed a radio station in my rig, every time I flipped the blaster on with the guitar volume at 10.
Shakedown! By rolling guitar volume down slightly, a new process after years of trying to keep a stable trigger threshold on an envelope filter, I had a mostly radio-free night, but clearly I was being greedy with the Blaster setting.
Question- other than verifying the continuity of grounding and shielding, is rolling back the boost on the blaster my only option? I have it set to provide a significant bump, and the Black ‘65 was also on with some boost and gain.
How is everyone setting their Blaster to avoid this?
and a year or so of using a Zendrive, Microtron, and Wampler ‘Black ‘65 as my basic tone shapers, last night was my first gig with a NOS Stratoblaster ( in a MIM Strat with Fender Custom Shop ‘57/‘62 pickups) and an Earth Drive set in a loop as a clean boost, thru my Music Man RD 112 Fifty with a ceramic Tone Tubby and 1 x 12 Mesa with an old D120F JBL.
Imagine my delight when soundcheck revealed a radio station in my rig, every time I flipped the blaster on with the guitar volume at 10.
Shakedown! By rolling guitar volume down slightly, a new process after years of trying to keep a stable trigger threshold on an envelope filter, I had a mostly radio-free night, but clearly I was being greedy with the Blaster setting.
Question- other than verifying the continuity of grounding and shielding, is rolling back the boost on the blaster my only option? I have it set to provide a significant bump, and the Black ‘65 was also on with some boost and gain.
How is everyone setting their Blaster to avoid this?