My set up in my current apartment hums like a mother fucker because there aren't any accessible ground points. The only plug socket with a ground is on the balcony with the washing machine, it is a really odd building about 40 years (pre historic here) old which was originally offices and kind of badly converted to apartments.
In a month I am moving to a new place which has grounded plugs in every room, yay! my set up is basically, a few synth modules, a couple of game consoles, powered speakers, mackie mixer, PC and Monitor. I assume. My plan is to just buy a power strip with a ground, plug the monitor/PC/mixer into the grounded power strip then plug the strip into the grounded plug. I assume this is a good idea?
Reason I ask is, as far as I can work out, ground loops are where items are being grounded to different points, my (very very) rudimentary knowledge of electrics assumes that a grounded power strip counts as a single ground point?
A couple of other questions, I am 99 percent sure, after unplugging various items in turn, that the problem is the PC but aside from the PC/Mixer and monitor, are there any other items which are likely to need grounding?
Last one! can safely (hum wise I mean, I know it won't explode) mix, grounded and non grounded items in the same power strip grounded powerstrip?
Also do I win the prize for repetition of the work "ground" in a single post?
