Solving Another Mysterious House Noise
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At 8:50 watch my electrician friend
He got hit in the head🤣
F in chat for the poor dude he got critted by the tree
bonk
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Hehe
The fact that the city actually helped and solved this issue is incredible.
That's Canada for you
@@HimanXK In Brazil they'll shut down the power repeatedly so you don't have any equipment left to complain about. Your amp won't make any noise if it can't turn on anymore.
@@jonnyso1 damn that sucks. You live in Brazil? Hope you're not dealing with that yourself
@@jonnyso1 aiusdhai ainda dariam um jeito de aumentar o valor da sua conta
Not the city. Manitoba Hydro is a provincial crown corporation
“Well, your big green Box in my neighbours yard is having a Detrimental effect on my life” - line of the century right there.
Poor girl probably thought it was another psycho with a tin foil hat. And she wasn't completely wrong.
Once we an tap into the brains of people to pull out the real full emotional response of lines like this TH-cam will go main stream for sure!
Hello , green big noise street signal help
For real
I think it was the perfect opener. He definitely got her attention straight away, rather than mumbling through various technicalities and losing her along the way because they're clearly not a sound engineering company. First get their attention, then explain in detail what the issue is.
SG: "If it werent for my audio engineering skills this problem would have never been fixed"
Also SG: *walking around the neighborhood with an amp and pointing his guitar at things*
Admittedly the method he used to narrow down the issue is unconventional/funny, but it still falls under the audio engineering skillset. So technically he wasn't lying.
also with his friend and dad
"Your big green box is causing a detrimental effect on my life" lmfao
As an American, I'm more impressed your power company followed through than anything.
Quality of service. They promise certain signal quality and if the mains doesn't meet those requirements... they can be sued. But, even if there is no legal repercussion, they do want to fix those kind of problems.
@@squidcaps4308 You sound like you understood the problem can you.elaborate
@@squidcaps4308 Sounds more like feedback being amplified by the local fiber optic wire was the cause or maybe even without the fiber. Wouldn't have degraded the power enough to sue for that. However, an unshielded transformer could have repercussions for any child in the neighborhood (i.e. the little samurai). Most people don't want to live near power lines, and I mean the really big ones coming from the plant, and the lines are so high of the ground for a reason. Having a transformer spewing out stuff at ground level may put out levels high enough that they don't want to take the chance on paying out dead baby money in a lawsuit.
Seriously. I'm just imagining my call to a power company. "Well? What do you want me to do about it? Sir, we're not in the audio engineering business."
@@northofnashira2575 This type of EM doesn't kill anything, let alone babies.
As a person who was educated in high voltage electricity AND a lifelong guitarist I find it absolutely hilarious that you've found a faulty shielding on a transformer box with a guitar and an amp. I'd guess for the electricians it's one of those work stories they're going to tell 5 or 10 years from now
Are they really rare?
@@leonflint5413 Shitty shielding on a transformer box - probably not. Some dude reporting it beacause he was hearing clicking sounds and then searched for the source of interference walking around with a guitar and a battery amp - I think pretty rare
It was really genious!
@@ostry66 thank you 🤙🤙
Is the intermittent ticking noise capacitance? I had a ruptured capacitor in an amp that would click and arc over - I thought it was cool as a teenager (facepalm)
7:22 Canada man challenges ghosts on the streets to battle him on a Shred off
I was absolutely cracking up when he was walking around his neighborhood holding his axe in the air like the guitar god he is. Just imagine what the neighbors were thinking...
Hydro actually sent somebody - that's the real miracle here.
I know right! MB Hydro seems to be upping their game lately
Quality of service... They are violating the terms of each and every contract in that area. You are promised certain quality of mains voltage, without extra peaks or gaps. It is actually quite serious violation and can be expensive to find the cause and fix it.
Is Power nationalized up there? I don't see my state's power company giving a damn about that her in the U.S.
@@Drew_Gliebe no, it’s provincial. Manitoba Hydro has historically been really slow, lately they seem to be getting better as far as customer service.
the question is would they have sent someone if it was a lower income neighbourhood...
“House noise” sounds like a new avant-garde genre of music and I’m all in
I legit thought the video was going to be something like "How did they make that weird noise in that one song"
@samuraiguitarist can you make a house noise song now? HAHAHA
You should look into Pink Floyd's canceled "Household Objects" album. 😂
Look up lowercase music. No even joking, it's a real thing
PLEASE NO
I work on sensitive magnetic instruments and stuff like this is the bane of our lives. We had issues with one of our stations a few weeks ago and were going nuts trying to find out why. We checked equipment, temperature, mains, weather. We only worked out what it was when we hung a webcam and found out it was the herd of cows in the next field coming to investigate the box. They all had magnetic ear tags. I’m genuinely impressed with your detective work. Sometimes you just have to get a sensor and go checking.
That's easily the funniest thing I've heard all day..... bovine line interference 😅
For those wondering about making a faraday cage to isolate a studio, you should know the shielding doesn't need to be solid (i.e. tin foil) to be effective. Wire mesh, chicken wire, "hardware cloth," and chain link will all work really well as long as they're properly grounded. If you do decide you want continuous cover, mylar blankets (like the scene in The Boys) are going to be your best bet as they're a super thin layer of foil between two layers of mylar resin. Again, the trick is grounding.
All of that aside, I'm really impressed by both SG's ability to track down the noise and the power company's responsiveness. Solid work all around.
Thought the mesh gaps should be at around the wavelength of the signal for maximum effectiveness
@@GeneralPet that would probably be ideal, but it's definitely not necessary. The important part is that the interference induces current in the shielding material, and that noise winds up going to ground instead of through your output. 60hz emf has a wavelength of about 5M meters, and fine-screen wire mesh works just fine.
How exactly would one ground a mesh like this?
@@mofongotron You've got options.
If your electrical outlets are grounded, you can piggyback on that. Most of the time those are run back to a common ground at or near the breaker panel. A slightly modified faceplate would let you run a wire into a junction box to tie into the ground there. Tie the other end to your mesh and you're set. (Insert standard disclaimer about electricity being dangerous and don't take advice from randos on the internet.)
Absolute worst case scenario, you could run a wire from your mesh, out a window, and tie it into a metal stake driven into the ground.
@@jamesgilbert124 thanks James for great input.. I know I'm late to the party here but hoping you could answer a question.. I'm battling noise in my small studio and learning it's probably a emf prob.. I already have a metal roof but wood siding, can I just put 5v metal panels on the side as well make sure it's all connected and ground it out to main panel ground going into ground, which is close by, and still get the same results? Thanks!
dude this was an amazing video, congrats on the clean signal
I'm bout to go plant something else by his house that will cause this issue again so we can get another video haha these are the best
Hahahaha niceeeee
@@xBABYxSHAKERx LMAO
thanks for spoilers
I just loved how good old Sammy G actually brought the amp and guitar out to talk to the electricians. Also, this proves that almost everything can generate quality content (and a song) for the right person. I am almost looking forward and hoping for another phantom sound episode to complete the trilogy...
I hate laughing at another man's misery, but after three days of chasing down a cricket you had me in tears.
i like how this guy prioritizes his guitars over something like his fridge and washing machine
I don't think his GF would put up with an unplugged fridge. 🤨
Ham radio operator here. This is exactly the way hams track down RFI problems - except of course they don’t usually use a guitar. But the guitar is obviously a good directional antenna; I guess the internal shielding is blocking signal through the back of the guitar. What is NOT normal is the power people actually fixing the problem so quickly-I’ve heard horror stories involving months of calls to get a bad transformer fixed (I’m taking mostly about utility companies in the US).
Ham here also. The guitar is probably a less imposing RF detecting device than a DF antenna. That'll help defuse those neighborhood issues.
Ve6tws here, I was gonna say the same things.
I guess they upped the priority because it was interfering with his profession.
I think he's canadian so maybe that's why
For every horror story, there's an hundred completely unimpressive and untold stories of things being repaired within the week.
I wonder if theres another musician in your neighborhood experiencing the same problem thinking it was normal, who is now wondering why the clicking suddenly stopped
I like to imagine this was the case but the buzzing stopped as soon as the neighbor was putting bread in the toaster or something so now the neighbor constantly has someone make toast in the kitchen every time he wants to play guitar.
Is it bad that I wish he'd get different problems like these all the time so we could get more videos like this
I wish this too lol
Neighbor peering through their blinds: Honey, the new guy across the way is running around outside with a guitar and amp like he's a crazy person, shouting at a power transformer.
One week later, same neighbor: Wait, did our TV stop buzzing after that guitar Viking guy shouted at the transformer? I'm gonna go bake them a plate of cookies.
Fr he looked like a vaguely annoyed and confused wizard lmao
He looked like he was offering to sell his guitar in a crowd of nonexistent people the way he was holding it out
His dad seems like the nicest guy ever.
It might run in the family.
well, 90 procent of people have two faces, you know what im mean. i have learned in personal exp.
You’re a hero!! I’ve been pulling my hair out for weeks because of noise. Endless googling, I’ve rewired my guitar twice, and I Even bought a new multimeter because i was convinced my cheap one was reading incorrectly. Then, the camera panned to the big green box. I swear i heard angels sing. That box is 20ft from my house. Time for me to call the electrical company and lie about my profession. Thanks!
Did anything ended up happening?
So how'd it go?
he died
@@Nealrex101 Oh, O.K., thanks.
I hope this comment is a sufficient denouement to this comment section, and quietus to his legacy.
I just decided to move.
The most impressive thing about this video is that 1. You actually got a hold of someone at the electric company and 2. They actually came out and knew what was going on and did something about it. I. Am. Blown. Away.
Sammy G: Neither do I! *plays guitar with happiness and glee*
Also Sammy G: *straight faced* I’m pretty happy with this outcome
I came in thinking that there was no way this was gonna compare to finding a secret room in your house but tbh it delivered
browsing too much reddit
The ghost of the guitar says turn down your gain.
One does not simply turn down the gain
Especially when there isn't nearly enough to begin with
Thats not very djent of you.
Ham radio skills help immensely with this kind of issue as well. The electric companies in the US are usually quite responsive to reports of EMI. Obviously they want their equipment to work properly as it saves them money if they can solve a minor problem before it becomes a big one. You did them a favor, and I'm very glad they treated you with respect and responded in a serious way. Sometimes those interactions don't go nearly as well.
Possibly one of my favourite videos on TH-cam. It had everything and I was hooked from the start. The suspense, the thrill of the chase and the beautiful pay off at the end. The tin man suit was just the icing on the cake! 😂
The tinfoil bit was funny, but I've often wondered about whether anyone makes Faraday cages for musicians. I know people spend $$ for sound-proofed telephone booths -- it seems like a no-brainer to build Faraday cage shield into it.
HOW IT WAS REALISED 20 SECONDS AGO??
@@superevan1529 patreon
That does seem to be a good idea and for anyone who doesn't know Faraday cages are metal shields that block magnetic fields.
(Please correct me if I am wrong)
@@jameshetfield3105 They block EM waves, not magnetic fields.
@@meespeeters826 oh ok thx
After seeing what guitar he has, something nuts is about to happen
9:35 begins to celebrate,
then with a dead serious face : im pretty happy
cracks me up
I found the source of the ticking... Its a pipe bomb!
My pedal will occasionally will pick up radio signals specifically from horse track racing and it’s funny when I’m playing R&B and out of no where,”gooo gooo gooo number 17 is in the lead.” “Thanks for coming down to the Santa Nita horse races ladies and gentlemen.”
Oh, dear, that sucks! 😂😂😂
@@dieplanes789 did you sold it to a christian rock band
A really small and shitty unbranded amp picked up a local country station.
Dude! I was in south ga when I was like 13, turned on my 15 dollar danelectro distortion AND the distortion on my 15w practice amp and picked up AM radio from Cuba lmaoooo
I was absolutely baffled the first time my amp started picking up radio signals. I heard these voices coming from my amp that sounded like they were mid conversation (I dunno what they were talking about tho). That was the closest I've ever been to believing in ghosts
From the thumbnail, I thought that he was gonna become a total conspiracy theorist.
EDIT: He kinda did.
Well i mean he didn’t not do that
The real conspiracy was when he conspired with his power company to eliminate the clicking.
7:56 every guitarist’s reaction when finding the source of the hum “should we shoot it?”
As an electrician, I thoroughly enjoyed this. Incredible how much energy gets away from those things.
Propagation fields, of EM interference were a big problem in the old downtown recording studio.. rough out here for a tracking engineer.
This happened to me a while ago. When u would turn on my wah pedal I would pick up a gospel radio station.
Ouch! 😂
That's funny my distortion picked up a talk show one time.
@@calebfitzgerald8452 that's so surreal omg, imagine that happening while playing live damn
@@elmonosas8374 live! That would be so embarrassing.
Disappointed this comment is a year old and not one person said “Oh LoooOOOOoooOOOrd”
This is super useful. My home in the West End was bad for this and my current home in St. James does it too, but I've been told it's because of open-ground wiring, since the wiring was upgraded from knob and tube, but done by do-it-yourselfers before codes came in and made it all proper. I'll have to see how close I am to one of these boxes. Cheers!
The first mysterious noise video was my absolute favourite from the channel, but it seemed like it could never be repeated. It's so satisfying to have an equally genuine follow-up!
Holy cow!! Thanks man!! I’ve been tearing every amp and guitar apart. I took a couple to my parents house on vacation and no noise!!! Got home noise was back. My wife said, “dude probably that big green box out front”. Then I watch this video today! Wow thanks man. I’m now 1000% better at soldering and have now accumulated so much amp tech equipment, just wanted to play guitar that’s all. I consider this just another path in my journey. Thank you.
"Your big green box in my neighbor's yard is having a very detrimental effect on my life"
-Samuraiguitarist 2020
From the thumbnail we all knew where this was going
I think your audio engineering skills mainly consisted out of calling your dad... Dads just know things
... ok so I was the only one who got this recommended without knowing the channel beforehand thinking it was going to be a house sound design tutorial
Should have titled this video "Canadian Man Covers Himself in Aluminum Foil. You Won't Believe What He Finds!"
Canadian man tracks down electromagnetic signal with a guitar and found a solution by covering himself in aluminium foil.
1:39 That was one of the smoothest cheeky turn transitions I’ve seen in a while
Dude, i suuuper impressed that the electric provider company actually responded to your complaint and really did aomething about it. Where i live that would have never happened. More like "yeah, nothing we cand do, it is what it is".
Since he did the detective work for them, it was easy to send the crew to fix it.
The perks of living in Canada and not latinoamericana Part 1: the electric company give a damn
My thoughts exactly
Even a US power company would have taken at least a month to fix this.
Right? I’m crying! It’s a dream!!!
In latinoamerica they would never solved that
Simon.
I was wondering for years what that mysterious ticking noise was I heard every time I played my electric guitar. Wasn't my proudest moment when I found out it was the metallic second hand of my watch, that was picked up by the humbuckers... Always reminded me of a metronome
It's a pipe bomb!
All my songs are at 60bpm.
If your mechanical watch doesn't sound like a metronome, it's time for a new watch.
being right handed, I wear my watch on my left wrist so its always plenty far away from the pickups to get interference, but I suppose not everyone wears their watch on their non dominant wrist, thats just what I always thought was right when I started wearing one lol
@@zoutewand DUMBLEDORE
It's incredible that they answered, and didn't hang up (ahem got cut off for some unknown reason) half way through your explaining it. Let alone actually coming out and doing something about it.
Total kudos to that company!
It's also amazing that the work on the transformer completely eliminated the noise-floor on your amp 😁 great video - and I could honestly watch a dozen more "noise detective" vids
When I saw the thumbnail I had assumptions, and the beginning of the video confirmed those assumptions. And I love it
I hope this becomes a series
Good idea😂
I'd settle for something in parallel.
Hi
@@kjl3080 hello there
This reminded me of better call Saul when the brother tore up his house cause of electricity.
This is sooo cool in so many ways, and according to my experience and the general opinion about the public services companies in my country, it could be more of a "happy ending fairy tale" than an informative and entertaining vlog, dude, really, congrats on everything about this :)
This was the most elaborate house tour I have ever seen.
"Holy mackerel! One take!"
Grade-A troubleshooting skills.
I spent 100s of hours of my military career chasing down mechanical, electrical, and sound faults on a submarine - this is an excellent example of how you chase down a fault, isolate equipment, and test.
The struggle is real... I live next to a train track, and although the sound is not a problem as we have a "noise wall", but the interference is a real problem. I have to position my self in an awkward position to record anything without the constant electric noise 😭
I live next to a train track too and it’s killing me hearing the EMI all the time through my guitar
You probably have a single coil or split humbucker pickup. Those are great antennas. Consider shielding the cavities in your guitar, it helped my Strat enormously.
It was a bit funny when - after all that appliances unplugging - you showed on camera your battery-powered amp :D
*In 10 years at school*
My daddy is a fireman! What does your dad do?
Samurai Baby: uhhhh.........
Was having the exact same problem, wasn't even looking for a solution yet. The algorithm knows all.
Thank you for taking all your time to make and post this video. It helped me tremendously. I’ll make a donation asap.
I also live in canada. A really stereotypical “canadian” part of canada. But whoever the people are who work for your city’s electrical department or whatever need to be given a trophy for nicest workers ever! When my wifi is down and i call the company they arent nearly that useful! Well anyway, loved the video AND the music!
edit: 69 likes.........
American here. I once had an issue with my WiFi and had to wait 6 hours on hold with the cable company and 9 days for a technician to “fix” the problem in 5 minutes (and absolutely wreck my bathroom) only for it to crap out again the next day. I just googled the issue and solved it permanently myself. But you can’t have internet without those soulless bastards.
@@The3leggedhusky damn, i’ve waited on hold for a while a few times but 6 hours? Jeez...
Seeing him hold the exact guitar I own is terrifying and surreal
@@danill4381 got a problem with that?
What a fascinating and oddly calming video. Walking around with the guitar as an antenna was priceless. Please test guitar as an aerial for your digital TV. Just for the lols.
I had genuine joy and a huge smile when you turned the amp on at the end. ....I'm just SO HAPPY!
This could have easily become a lovecraftian horror story.
If you are going to try the shielding angle so this doesn't happen again, I can recommend having copper mesh lining an entire room, floor, ceiling and walls, then connect that copper mesh to a ground connection.
That way you'll have built a Faraday Cage room, free from outside interference.
This 9:30 happiness dance+guitar riff and this sweet smile at the end of it makes me so happy
Sam…I had this same symptomatic behavior of an insidious clicking sound with a 1983 Rivera Era Fender Super Champ I used to own. Your problem was completely different and wholly external. Mine was due to a component failing.
In my case, the act of plugging gain boosting gear, e.g., a distortion pedal, made my problem worse and suggested the issue was in the power amp stage of my amp. In my situation, I eventually traced the issue to a wonky 6V6 power tube that had an internal fault and was inappropriately sensing a cap in the amp circuit discharging, aka a true fluke. Changing the pair of 6V6 tubes solved the issue.
You just saved the whole city from an EMP
Reminds me of 2 things that happened to me. A few years ago, I got my first electric guitar and was trying to find a longer and more reliable cable. My dad used to be in a band, so he had a whole collection of old cables and a few amps. One of the cables and was only 3 feet long and didn't work well, but when both ends were plugged in it picked up a radio station. (Edit: I wrote this just after watching the intro, I didn't think this would be so relevant!)
The second thing, my family picked up an old Kimball electric organ last year. We put it in the living room by the wifi router, and at some point the next week, someone put the router on top of the organ to keep the dogs from destroying it. The next time I turned the organ on, the signal from the router interfered with some electronics in the organ and produced a lot of feedback. I thought there could be a pinched wire in it, so I took the router off the top, opened it up, moved some wires out of the way of each other, played it, and it was fine. I closed the top and put the router back on and was confused when it made more feedback. That happened a few more times. Finally, I had open with the router off and sustained a note while I put everything back and found out it was the wifi. Now we have a thick book in between them to keep that from happening again.
3 foot cable probably has a cold solder joint. Bad solder connection is able to simultaneously act like a diode, inductor, and capacitor.
This is by far my favorite video on your channel
This was an amazing video! Having lived twice in Winterpeg, I actually really missed my time there watching your video!! Good luck with the -30s, the potholes, and the amazing people who live in such a desolate city!
Ha! A “Faraday Body Wrap”... I don’t think so! Note to musicians: always bring your axe & amp when new house-shopping.
Second. Rented a house that had an electrical noise, sounded like someone constantly using a rain stick.
yup.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's what we call scientific method.
This video is one of my favorite things on TH-cam now,
you earned yourself a new subscriber,
I'll hit the bell as well :)
I'm really glad you tried this, I was so mad with airborne noise at one point I almost wrapped myself in foil.
The genuine joy on your face at the end made my day
Can't wait for the country song about mouse droppings in the next episode
I wish there was a lot more mystery noises in SammyG's house, because these videos are one of the best videos overall
awesome video and since the last mysterious sound video was so interesting as well, i hope you have more mysterious sounds to come.
Man, this topic hits too close for comfort. Hearing this click after our last move has been very demotivating, after having been to great lengths to get rid of other sources of noise (changed pedal power, changed to all humbuckers, added copper foil on top of the shielding paint, ...)
But if the source is external (I suspect we have a utilities shaft behind the wall), I'm doomed to never find piece short of building myself a Faraday cage...
Try to minimize the number of variables. Get a battery powered amp. Try the amp alone. Add the instrument cable. Add the guitar. Touch the strings. Touch the metal on the plug and jack. Try an amp that uses AC power. At some point the noise should appear. This will tell you the most likely point of entry for the interference. If there is a change in noise when you move the guitar around, that is a clue as well. Touching the strings or bridge with your body should reduce the noise, since the strings should be grounded and your body is a weak antenna.
I hope you´ll have a lot more mysterious house noises! Your approach to those is just awesome. Maybe you should start some kind of problem solving series one day!
That's actually quite a nice idea! @samuraiguitarist should read this and think about it 😉👍
Dude, love this. You are unique Bro! All of your videos are super informative.
Nicely done sammy g. I’ve often found this stuff to be a problem for me at times but i just went and serviced my gear for the problem to still be there 😢
Dr. Therapist: Robo-Sammy G isn't real, he can never hurt you.
6:54:
This is the most entertaining video I've seen today.
(You must know that I binge watch lots of crap recently)
It has educational value AND is funny at the same time
Good Job Sammy G!
If I would call the local power-company, they won't even answer the phone...
LOL
Thats just crazy how an annoying noise coming from a guitar amp ended up resulting in the discovery of a transformer box with faulty shielding. Unexpected is the best word to describe that I think.
You told that lady from the electric company the story of her life ! and no joke , i tip my hat to the electric dudes , nobody would give a damn about a guitarist, Yeeey for canada
Imagine how sammy g got jenny to wrap him in alluminum foil
"Hey can you wrap me in foil for a video?" "Haha okay!"
@@Weevil_Fam probably
Steve: Hey, babe? Can you wrap me in tinfoil so that...
Jenny:
She wrapped him in foil to begin with, so he had to make up a video to justify it.
This is the most fun video I've watched for a while, it feels like I'm watching a cartoon but definitely better😂
There should be a new mysterious sound hunting series
i saw the thumbnail and the caption i literally said "again?😂" lmao
My man full on fixed an issue with the mains electric circuit you deserve a medal or something
This is one of my favorite videos of yours. I watched it twice, even though I knew how it would end.
Like 20 years ago at school, they had and amp that would sometimes pick up some sort of (maybe) russian voice speaking. The first time it happened we freaked out haha.