I have bought a MuRF, it really is a great effect, and I would like to use it on my recordings… I found the MuRF to be really noisy, which is kinda inevitable I guess. At the same time it has a metallic hiss in the tune of E, which is rather uncool. I have understood that sometimes there is an issue with the power supply, but I have checked it, and it is the right one (9V, 300 mA). I even tried another one, but the metallic hiss remains.
When I don’t play anything, the hiss is muted by the internal noise gate (at least it seems that there is a noise gate included), but especially with my Rhodes i can’t get rid of this sound. I could EQ it away, but then I’m messing with beautiful and needed Rhodes frequencies. Apart from this issue, my MuRF works fine.
Is there a way I can fix this? Who has the same problem?
Thank you for reading!
Greetings from Berlin, Germany!
hello my friend
i sent a post also 5 days ago about my noisy bass murf…i always hear a high frequency note f together with air-noise…i was searching all the forums until i heard the samples from the mooger fooger site about the bass murf 105b…i used headphones and i noticed very clear to some tracks that noise…
i will have to live with that…i just cut some high frequency from my mixer and reduced the output level of the bass murf
I’ve found with most filters that they tend to expose noises more so than most other pedals. They seem to act very much like a guitar in how they “create” noise, really they just amplify it. My suggestion is this: try having the MURF as far away from electronic gear as possible, and potentially on a separate power outlet. Room placement can also be an issue. If you have anything that is communicating with the MURF (even sound) that is hooked to your computer in some way, try removing that cable to see if it goes away. There can sometimes be a grounding issue that is created using chassis mounted USB hubs, and Game ports on audio cards…
Play around with these simple things and see if it goes away. Then you can will have to get creative to find the work around.
I’ve found most electronic noise issues can be tuned close to an E, and these simple changes have corrected 95% of the time.
I recently got my MP201 back from warranty repair… and now anything I plug it into has this highpitched whine going on the background… similar to the bassmurf whine I hear occasionally, though now it does it with all my pedals- with the Ringmod it follows the LFO, even when bypassed… and this was never an issue before… ARGH
