Radio Noise Through Guitar Amplifier?

I used to have that happen with my beginner amp & equipment when I first started and when I got my London Fuzz, it also would broadcast christian radio stations for me!  But yeah, it only did it certain places/times.  Only thing I could suggest that worked for me was getting a power conditioner.  I bought a Monster pro2500, it cleaned everything up.  Even before I got it, I had bought a voodoo lab pedal power II and that did wonders.  The power conditioner was the icing on the cake, and it only cost me like $130 after guitar center reluctantly price matched an online computer store's price.  I guess certain pedals will give you problems here and there, and it seems the best and easiest way to combat is to have clean power and good cables.  Worked for me.

odds are high that it is the fuzz.  sometimes backing off on the gain a hair or on the volume will solve this problem entirely.

Another possiblility is cords.  Cheap one can do it.  Why don't you try going back to where you heard the radio interference and just plug into the amp first at about the volume you think you were playing.  I know you won't get the gain you had but you said you could hear it after you turned the fuzz off.  Try all your pedals into the amp next but only plug one pedal up to the  amp at a time.  See if any one pedal makes a difference.  It might not be isolated to just the amp or just a pedal you might have multiple pedals that are working together to pickup the RF interference.  How many pedals do you use on your board?  What are you using to power the pedals Batteries or ac adaptors?  If your using AC adapters switch to batteries and see if that makes a difference because batteries are self contained power sources you won't have dirty power that could have other RF atractors to contaminate your signal.  Things like neon signs, blow dryers, Radio's, TV's, wall worts for pedals, other amps, floresent lights ets...  Basically you want to try to find a power source that has no other electronic equipment drawing power from the line that your connected to.  I would do all this before spending a lot of cash on a power conditioner or something.  That would be the easy fix but you will be better off isolating where the problem is in your setup so you won't have a problem again with it.

I have a similar problem with my Barber Direct Drive (which I LOVE other than this problem) and it's happening whether it's plugged into an AC adapter or with battery power alone.  Most of my cords are $40 or so Planet Waves cords, though sometimes when I use a pedal I have some cheapo short cords I use....it's very frustrating but it only seems to happen with this one pedal that I've noticed, TS9 is fine.

Any thoughts?

CarljMD

Well, the guitar is plugging right into the amp actually, the Fuzz Factory is the only pedal in the effects loop (I don't like it in front of the amp, it sounds too harsh). The Fuzz Factory can't operate with batteries (no place to put in the batteries  ), so I use a Roland 9V DC adaptor. Today I'll stop by my local guitar shop (which fixes pedals, amps and guitars too) and I'll ask them maybe.... I kinda already did what your tips were in your post... but thanks though! Btw, I use a very good Cordial cord!

Rick

Ok so your not hitting the front end hard your just driving the Power amp side of it.  I've done this before with boost pedals because I like the amps distortion channel but couldn't get my boost pedals to make things loud so I stuck it in the effects loop and bam instant LOUD.  I wish I had an answer for the noise but maybe its just that boss AC.  I never knew why a pedal maker could charge an arm and a leg and not put a 9 volt battery terminal inside of their pedal or like fuzz faces no ac plug!

I'll try to search another adaptor.... maybe that will change things... never know if you don't test!

Rick