Is it normal that DI box adds a little....

[xmortumx]

hum to my amp?
Okay so yesterday I got my countryman type 85 on the mail and I tried it. So I use the DI box to split the guitar signal.. one went to my amp and the other one went to XLR to Firepod, and I noticed that my amp gets this extra hum sound(not very loud.. just and extra little hum sound) and yea I was wondering if that's normal from a DI box? Since with my previous crappy DI box did the same thing except the HUM sound was to fucking loud. And yes I did move the switch button up and down.. while it did help If i left the grnd switch on the DI signal would get distorted so I had to leave the switch open(and thats when i get the lil hum on amp, but I have to leave it that way or else the DI signal would get distorted).

anyone knows if im doing something wrong... or if thats normal?

 

[lolzgreg]

hum to my amp?
Okay so yesterday I got my countryman type 85 on the mail and I tried it. So I use the DI box to split the guitar signal.. one went to my amp and the other one went to XLR to Firepod, and I noticed that my amp gets this extra hum sound(not very loud.. just and extra little hum sound) and yea I was wondering if that's normal from a DI box? Since with my previous crappy DI box did the same thing except the HUM sound was to fucking loud. And yes I did move the switch button up and down.. while it did help If i left the grnd switch on the DI signal would get distorted so I had to leave the switch open(and thats when i get the lil hum on amp, but I have to leave it that way or else the DI signal would get distorted).

anyone knows if im doing something wrong... or if thats normal?

Sounds like it IS a grounding issue.

If you lift ground, the DI gets distorted? That sounds VERY strange, indeed.

-Greg

 

[Joshua Wickman]

Are you running the type 85 with phantom power or 9volt?

I'm going to guess phantom power and if so try using a 9volt instead and see if that helps.

 

[xmortumx]

yea dude i was running it with the phantom power of the firepod... but first thing ima do when i get home is try a battery... then let u guys know wat happens.

 

[egan.]

If you don't have a battery in there and you lift ground you are losing your only source of power (phantom) and thus it will indeed sound like shit or stop working altogether.

 

[xmortumx]

so your saying that its better to use battery instead of phantom?

 

[006]

Yeah dude, use a 9v with it. Clean, consistent power never hurt anybody