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Electro-Harmonix HumDebugger

August 21, 2006
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Electro-Harmonix Hum Debugger
Is there something preternatural going on at Electro-Harmonix? They've managed to come up with a hum eliminator called the HumDebugger that seems to completely remove all extraneous noise from your signal. The HumDebugger does this without resorting to noise-gating, which only removes noise when you're not playing, or low-pass filtering, which will dull your tone. The HumDebugger removes the noise only, leaving your sound intact and hum-free at any volume -- even with your Metal Muff cranked to 11.5. We're not sure what processes were involved in the making of this device, but we suspect a bit of Macumba.
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Presenter: Electro-Harmonix
Location: Summer NAMM 2006, Austin, TX
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Story Transcription:

PROMO GIRLS: You're watching Gearwire.Com.

ELECTRO-HARMONIX REPRESENTATIVE: And you're probably wondering why I'm so confident about not producing hum with the distortion devices. Let's put back -- Let's put this one back.

[ELECTRO-HARMONIX REPRESENTATIVE AUDITIONING GUITAR RIG]

And off [INDISCERNIBLE]

[ELECTRO-HARMONIX REPRESENTATIVE PLAYING GUITAR LICKS]

There's no hum. Why on earth would I want to split a coil and go through this tortion device? Because I have a little toy here that is the solution to every guitarist's nightmare. It's a hum debugger. To demo it to you, I'm going to take up this nasty looking device which is meant to produce all hum in the world. [SOUNDS LIKE] Mom, you won't list it. I might have to go to radiation therapy by using this. So, it warms up as I'm producing.

[ELECTRO-HARMONIX REPRESENTATIVE DELIBERATELY REPRODUCING HUM AND BUZZ]

There you go.

[ELECTRO-HARMONIX REPRESENTATIVE DELIBERATELY REPRODUCING HUM AND BUZZ]

You see, I'm producing a very nasty hum field so I immediately removed it with the HumDebugger. Put the distortion pedal back again.

[ELECTRO-HARMONIX REPRESENTATIVE DELIBERATELY REPRODUCING HUM AND BUZZ]

Do you hear that? I immediately controlled it with the HumDebugger and removed that [INDISCERNIBLE] there. And okay, and again with the guitar. Here we have the full humbucker, split a coil, produce hum, take it away with HumDebugger.

[ELECTRO-HARMONIX REPRESENTATIVE PLAYING GUITAR]

And it works great especially with overdrive units like the Muff Overdrive. What I want to do, in the middle of the overdrive/distortion.

[ELECTRO-HARMONIX REPRESENTATIVE PLAYING GUITAR]

And for very quiet parts like arpeggios, I can do that with confidence that it will not get the hum. This is not a noise gate. That means the hum will not appear when I play back again. And it's not a device that it's a noise gate and a low pass filter that will take the louder, the higher frequency content of the hum. It removes the hum entirely, and you can use it at the beginning or the end of the chain.

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