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Ebtech HE2PKG Hum Eliminator (2-Channel)

Eliminates ground loop hum. Converts back and forth between balanced and unbalanced signals.

Overall User Ratings

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          9 out of 10
Value:
          9 out of 10
I Want It:
          9 out of 10
Sound:
          9 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          10 out of 10
 
 

"Hum In, Hum Gone!"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from sbcglobal.net
Submitted: 1/14/2004
Style of Music: Pop/Electronic
Location: Dundee,IL

 

 
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Quality:
Sturdy and strong.

Value:
Does excactly what it is advertised for - eliminate ground loop hums.

Desirability:
If there is a hum that needs be removed, I will simply go and get one.

Overall:
If you have a hum in your setup, and you insert this little device in the wrong place, it will not remove the hum. Too bad. I have determined that my mpx200 caused the hum. When switched off, the hum disappeared. When I first installed it between the output of my mpx200 and mixer, it did not do anything. I eventually figured, when placed onto the input of the mpx200, that the hum completely disappeared. What can I say about the bad reviews on this fine little product? That those people applied it in the wrong spot, and DID NOT USE IT WHAT IS WAS MEANT FOR! How stupid can that be?

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"ATTENTION ALL YAMAHA MOTIF ES USERS!!!!!"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from aol.com
Submitted: 9/26/2005
Style of Music: anything and everything.
Musical Experience: Film Composer
Location: Ocala, Florida........good ol' usa

 

 
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Feature:
it's pretty basic.

Quality:
Solid, VERY solid!

Value:
Without this my $3,000 keyboard would be unusable for recording.

Desirability:
Not very "sexy" unless you have some weird fetish about hum eliminators!

Sound:
I suspect there may be a few people visiting here that have a Yamaha MotifES keyboard. Probably because it's causing a hum. Well, here is where your frustration ends. Buy this with ease of mind knowing that it WILL work! Totally gets rid of the hum and doesn't add any other noise or degrade the sound in any way. AWESOME!!!!!

Support:
Never having to call them is the best support!

Overall:
TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!!

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"Hum be little hum be big it'll get that hum clean out of your Gig."

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from aol.com
Submitted: 1/28/2005
Style of Music: We play all kinds at our shows.
Musical Experience: KJ
Location: Williamstown, Vermont USA

 

 
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Feature:
It is small and packs easy.

Quality:
Looks like it is built well.

Value:
Inexspensive!! and does the job.

Desirability:
If it was a woman I would want her.

Sound:
We had a horrid loud HUM in one venue, only when we used our crossover through the 100' snake. If I bypassed the crossover the hum went away. The crossover and all other equipment had balanced imputs and balanced cables to them but we still had the HUM. I purchased the Ebtech 2 channel Hum Eliminator after reading about what it could do and hooked it into the system and NO HUM!!! WOW!!! It was amazing, I read it didn't work on all hum problems, but it sure took care of the one I had.

Support:
haven't had a problem, but I don't expect to have trouble with support.

Overall:
A Long Long Long time

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"Works like a charm."

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          10 out of 10
Submitted: 5/6/2008
Style of Music: All
Musical Experience: Up and coming producer
Location: Tennessee

 

 
Feature:
Simple and sweet.

Quality:
Solid, and has nice rubber feet on it.

Value:
A bit spendy, but worth every penny since it solved my recording problem.

Sound:
I also had buzzing with a Motif ES. I bought this and now the sound is crystal clear and buzz free. Awesome!

Ease of Use:
Don't even have to plug it in.

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"It "just works"."

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          8 out of 10
User: a customer from brehob.org
Submitted: 2/14/2002
Style of Music: I rip (my own!) CDs to play from computer
Location: Michigan

 

 
My computer has unbalanced audio outputs which
share ground with the "earth ground" from the
incoming power connection. This created a bad
ground loop with my audio equipment.

Putting an EbTech HE2 in-line with the audio
fixed the problem, with no audible degredation
of the signal (not that I could hear, anyway).

Of course the ideal solution would have been
an optical digital connection to an outboard
DtoA, but the EbTech cost one tenth that much.
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"Indispensable for Recording"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          8 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from hotmail.com
Submitted: 3/4/2002
Style of Music: Jazz, pop
Location: Ottawa, ON

 

 
I can't imagine doing a recording session without my EBTECH Hum Eliminator. I always end up using it - usually connecting keyboards or electronic samplers to a board of some sort. I record from my home so there is always line noise. The EBTECH completely gets ride of it!

NOTE: The EBTECH does not get rid of noise from a standard electric guitar to guitar amplifier - that is a separate problem.
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"Would not travel without them!"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from acm.org
Submitted: 9/30/2002
Style of Music: Recording
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio

 

 
Solid, Small, Well constucted, Balanced to unbalanced is automatic, adds no color, High Isolation Tranformer in the TRS I/O, I keep three in each kit.
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"Just the product I needed"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Submitted: 1/14/2003
Style of Music: All types
Location: Vermont

 

 
I no longer have a hum from the AC power source of my Laptop when interfaced with my 1400 watt amplifier. It was just the product I was looking for and it was at a reasonable price.
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"Problem-solving at its Best!"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from siemens.com
Submitted: 1/5/2005
Style of Music: Easy listening, instrumental, light vocal, rock, jazz, and new-age/synthesized.
Musical Experience: Audio and lighting technician, recording engineer
Location: Suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, USA

 

 
Feature:
There are no accessories. You don't even need a supply for this little passive device. I suggest though, that if you are going to be running into applications where you'be using this device in-line with RCA/phono terminals, that while you are shopping for this thing, arm yourself with an array of conversion adaptors. My current 'kit' consists of 4 each male TS to phono female RCA, straight-through, and another set of right-angled. I have my box sitting jack-side up as to keep my cables essentially running straight. Mail me and I'll send you a photo. See 'Ease-of-Use'

Quality:
Black, heavy steel box, heavily painted and well-labeled. Being a Product Engineering Technician myself, I have to take things apart and look at them. It looks very neat and tidy inside. Don't drop it on your toe, but this thing should hold up well on the road tour circuit! Ebtech could have skimped here but they didn't.

Value:
Online price wasn't but $3.88 more than what I got it for here in the Atlanta, georgia, USA area. For what I needed done and what I paid, it saved me a LOT of work. Easily worth what I paid and more. Another online seller was asking $80.

Desirability:
"Sex appeal"?? What? It's a magic black box. I don't need everything I buy to be 'sexy'. Find sex appeal elsewhere.

Sound:
I have a pro-audio, audiophile sound system that consists of 22 components. Last year I built a digital recording studio. Over he holidays I attempted to join the two systems and that's where the problems began. In short, and the details are much lengthier, this little box completely zapped the 60-cycle hum generated through the antenna this connection created. If it hadn't, I'd have been forced to dismantle a whole lot of gear, as well as operate the studio off of my spike protection and UPS power distribution system, as one of the 'partial' solutions was to put the whole system on one power supply. I ran my signals to the recording software/sequencer and compared them with/without the box; it made no noticeable impact. I might put test signals through an oscilloscope just to play but have not done so yet. I'm in a studio environment and it has absolutely done the trick. Their instructions highly suggest that one go through the process of taking apart a rack of gear to search for the culprit. In my case, I already knew I had two, separately-stable systems, the problem occurring ONLY when I joined them, so it seemed likely that if I inserted their box into that line, it would kill the hum. And it did.

Support:
I have not had to deal with Ebtech yet, but I will be shortly to offer my suggestion. It comes with a 2-year warranty if that tells you anything.

Overall:
It's a passive device, has essentially no moving parts other than the wiping action of the connectors when inserting plugs. From a design standpoint, I expect to see it working well after I am long in the ground.

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"Is this a joke?"

Overall:
          2 out of 10
Features:
          2 out of 10
Quality:
          2 out of 10
Value:
          2 out of 10
I Want It:
          2 out of 10
User: a customer from aol.com
Submitted: 4/30/2002
Location: NY/USA

 

 
I plugged the unit between my sound module and my mixer. The hum level "doubled". This is the "second" Ebtech product I try. The first was the Ebtech Line Level Shifter. Both were absolutely useless devices. I really felt embarrassed returning the first product because I thought the Level Shifter was damaged. They were very nice and sent me "another one". Niet, nicht, nothing. It's like plugging your instrument to a "patchbay". So here I am trying the Hum "Eliminator" (Hum Doubler they meant?). Zero. Beware of product specifications. If you're reading this and can help me solve this hum problem, I'd really appreciate that. P.S: if you need an 8-channel "patchbay", get the 8-channel Ebtech Hum Eliminator. Sorry for being so direct, mister Ebtech. I am extremely frustrated and very unsatisfied.
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