Interesting discovery.... now, where's Mr.Tesla?

[Psychicpet]

ok, so I've always had some "issues" with dual pick-up basses and passive and active for that matter. Some basses worse than others but especially dual p/up models.

anywho, the issue is that I get wicked buzz as soon as I take my hands off with some basses regardless of how shielded they are or even how 'active' they are!

I was doing some playing last night in the living room and with my wife's unbiased ears, deduced that the closer a bass and it's control cavity is to my chest/heart the louder the buzz.....

so, I guess I'm in the camp with folks who can't wear watches 'cause they kill them, but at least it sheds some light on why a few basses I really dig buzz no matter what I do to them.

anyone else ever have this problem?

 

[roburado]

It's simple. You're actually a Terminator sent from the future, and your power source is causing interference with all your basses.

 

[Psychicpet]

I was just thinking that now I have proof that I really do have too much mojo for multi p/up basses

 

[adouglas]

Only when my pacemaker is acting up.

Or when I forget to turn off the vibrator.

 

[oddjob]

Only when my pacemaker is acting up.

Or when I forget to turn off the vibrator.

That's an easy fix... quit sticking quarters in the bed

 

[Ken Baker]

I was doing some playing last night in the living room and with my wife's unbiased ears, deduced that the closer a bass and it's control cavity is to my chest/heart the louder the buzz.....

This is making my head go all wobbity-wobbity. Not that it takes much to make my head go all wobbity-wobbity, but still...

Does this happen in every room of the house?

If you stand in your usual playing spot and look up, is there a light fixture? And if so, does said light fixture use a fluorescent light of any kind?

Are you allergic to shellfish?

What does the buzz sound like. Some a little more descriptive than, "BZZZ..." would be helpful; like high pitched or 60Hz or some-such.

Are you playing a green bass?

Ken...

 

[Psychicpet]

Hi Ken,
It's just a typical ground loop "bzzzz". Not an issue of light fixtures or fluorescents, has happened for quite a few years in many many places but I always chalked it up to basses crappin' out on me and/or producers who are full of poop when they say that their place is completely wired up clean and isolated.

I know, sounds weird, was even more weird since trying it out. I wasn't playing a "green" bass at the time but said "green" bass does give me minor hum issues in different selector settings.

I think i might be relegated to me and my mojo sticking with single H SR5s... and Bongo6s

 

[Ken Baker]

I know, sounds weird, was even more weird since trying it out. I wasn't playing a "green" bass at the time but said "green" bass does give me minor hum issues in different selector settings.

I think i might be relegated to me and my mojo sticking with single H SR5s... and Bongo6s

You're right - it does sound weird. There just has to something electrical going on around you. I'm not quite ready to think that your aura is causing it. Unless you have a 60Hz aura.

Ken...

 

[mynan]

I was helping a buddy of mine, who is a local TV producer, record a show and one of the wireless lapel mics that we were using wouldn't work for the host of the show. Every time the mic got near him, the signal on the receiver would drop out. It worked for everyone else except him.

It is hard to believe though, that what you are describing could happen consistently in different rooms/venues. I have something similar in my church office, where I store most of my gear. If I get within about 4' of my amp and my SR5 is facing directly at my amp I get some buzz, but my office is also full of video/computer screens and electronics and that is the only place I've noticed it.

 

[thunder]

i have that problem also, in the big apple a lot of these buildings are very old. built in the 1920's. these cheap (i don't want to spend money to fix anything but, i want to keep raising your rent!) land lords. haven't upgraded the electric wiring in the buildings. so when i play out or in my house i get the lovely 60hz tone that we all grown to love. 90% of the time it ain't your bass. i had a friend the worked in sony studios in manhattan, i had a chance to mess around in one of there rooms the bass was quite as can be. the engineer told me that rooms are designed to eliminate those hums and bzzzs!

 

[PocketGroove82]

Be Careful With Bongos!

Those super-magnets have been known to kill people.

 

[Monty Billocks]

Awww...Pete, I have heard many an emission/noise come from you....rarely have they sounded like 60 cycle hum.....

[All together now.....]

"76 trombones in the big parade...."



Steve

 

[Psychicpet]

ya, ya......


BTW..... LMAO!!!


those dang trombones do it every time...