EH HumDebugger examples

I just got an EH Humdebugger and thought I would show how it works/sounds. Sound samples with and without below

I have a very electrically noisy office/music space. Not sure why. But it's bad enough that I've tried various strategies fro reducing hum. My favorite guitar has a Lace Alumitone in it.

But here is an example of a guitar that's annoying to play because of buzz. I made this hollow body out out of plywood. It has a lollar CC pickup that sounds great but buzzes like mad






Below are three short and sloppy sound clips, with just a touch of reverb, recorded direct

First, without the HumDebugger

Second, with the Humdebugger set to "normal"

Third, the second clip with a recording of the hum alone mixed in


I put the third clip in there to see if the hum itself was adding something, on the theory that we like analog noise.

So it's very good, but I do hear a difference between the raw and the debugged sound. I like the raw sound better: it's maybe a little more "lush"? but the hum is infuriating, and the Hum Debugger pretty much kills it.

It s clever device that requires its own AC power supply, so I'll bet it works by sampling the line signal and phase canceling the hum?

 

Might be possible to eq the difference out. Some tweaking with the midrange got them closer