HUMIDITY AND EFFECTS PEDALS

[todd17063]

Has anyone ever had the old musical equipment gremlins pop up at a gig? My d istortion unit just had no output tonight at a freebie gig we did.. how does high humidity affect your amp, guitar and or effect pedals?? oh by the way I was using a DF7 made by digitech

[MeYatch]

never noticed anything not working. I do have a theory that stuff doesn't sound as good when its humid. don't know if its the paper speakers, the sound traveling through the air, or just playing like ass because its miserably humid.

[VENTGtr]

Ya, for things not to work because of the humidity would have to be purty
dang damp. TUNING issues, certainly, but not heard of something just not
working.

Agreed on the sound issue when it's humid Mitch. Often, especially in a
smaller room, things can have a "dead" or mushy sound.

[JackANSI]

Did the pedal come back alive eventually?

Humidity would have to turn to condensation for it to do something like that in my experience. Which is possible if you're dealing with nearly 100% humidty and metal pedals sitting on a cool concrete floor.

As far as it sounding different in humidity, yeah it can effect things. The details are boring though. Just know that it effects bigger speakers, more.

[todd17063]

the pedal just lost output. when turned off wham clean chanel was fine. I don't run batteries i run all my pedals with ac power i'm sure its fine now but i know next time if it happens im just pulling out of the chain and using amp distortion..

[BloodyFingers]

Never bothered my pedals or amp !!! Yes humidity will make it sound different. The sound is trying to swim thru all the humidity in the air.