Placement of the cyclops matters (at least for my rig it does). I had it sitting on the PS-100 and it causes a low frequency hum to come through the amp. I lift it off and the hum stops. All the cables are evidence audio solid core, so I don’t think it’d be a cabling issue.
He’s a link to a video in dropbox to demonstrate the hum (if the video doesn’t play, right click to get the video URL)
Changing where it’s on the surface of the PS-100 makes very little difference. In fact, I used to have it to the left of my Axe-FX and it was making the hum too, so it’s not PS-100 specific.
If I unplug it, it still makes the hum as well. On my rig, it’s only when I move the cyclops away from all other electronic devices does the hum go away.
I’d actually tried the tin foil a couple days ago and it made no difference, however, I hadn’t grounded the foil. How would I go about grounding the tin foil?
I won’t be able to test it for about a week (vacation!), but when I get back I’ll give it a go.
Moving locations is not an option. I’ve got a dedicated circuit for my rig installed and it’s not a portable rig.
I’m determined to get to the bottom of this. I’ve got on order RF EMI Shielding Tape SHIELD WRAP™ Nickel-Copper (NI/CU) 2.000" and some Expandable Braided Sleeving. Both should arrive in about a week or so.
You can see that the cables are spaced quite far apart. Can I assume that I am to try to loom together the first 6 cables from the left side of the cyclops (not bothering with the remote or power cable). In that case the shielding wrap will not go all the way to the cable plugs, or is there something else you had in mind?
Hey Alex, yes, I think that makes sense: you want to shield the line level and guitar level carrying cables from any stray magnetic fields from the power station and associated cables.
I’m really curious to see how things go! Fingers crossed we see an improvement