Valleyboy Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 ..As usual, i turned on my stereo and i was going to play along to the is this it album but then... whenever i played the E string, this weird sound came out of my amp. it sounded like a crazy distortion, but it was insanely high. I turned off my amp, tuned my bass using an electric tuner (just to make sure that everything was okay with my bass) and turned on my amp again, but the weird sound kept coming out whenever i played the E string... and all the other strings were sounding as good as before, so i kind of thought there was something wrong with my bass, so i tried to plug it in my friend's amp and it worked just fine. So hey, i'm guessing there's something wrong with my amp? I've been using it for about 3 months and it always worked great. hmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mycdplayerisbroke Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 hey do you have another input i learned today that you can put it in -15dB and it doesnt sound distorted if it does in 0dB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valleyboy Posted July 15, 2004 Author Share Posted July 15, 2004 You mean like, passive and active input? That's what's written on my amp's panel. I always used the passive one and it always sounded ok. But hey, what's that thing about -15db? i think i've read something about that before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mycdplayerisbroke Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 man i dont even know what passive and active are they have passive/active inputs too? i thought it was just pickups that were like that but yeah well on my amp it says 0dB and -15dB look on the 2nd page of one of my earlier threads on here i forget the title but its like 3 rows down from the top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mycdplayerisbroke Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 a bit on page 1 too http://forum.coldplaying.com/viewtopic.php?t=11299&start=15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valleyboy Posted July 15, 2004 Author Share Posted July 15, 2004 Thanks for the info man. Whoa, Ryan is smart, i didn't know that he knew so much about amps. That's cool. But i still can't make my amp work. damn. I guess it's damaged from the inside. like, probably i used it too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mycdplayerisbroke Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 that sux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valleyboy Posted July 15, 2004 Author Share Posted July 15, 2004 Totally. Tomorrow I'll go to this music store where i bought my amp and see if they can fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mycdplayerisbroke Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 that sucks only 3 months Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinned Alive Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 Whoa, Ryan is smart, i didn't know that he knew so much about amps. That's cool. :cool: anyway, hmmm.... I really couldn't say what this is. It COULD be a broken speaker, but I'm not at all sure. I'd recommend you do as you said and take it to the shop to see if they can suggest something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Peedston Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 If it's just that one string, it might be possible that the string is buzzing against a fret or something, and you just can't hear it without the amp on. :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mycdplayerisbroke Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 most of the time, for me at least, you can hear a buzzed string w/out an amp if you hit it hard enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Peedston Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 Me too, but you never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valleyboy Posted July 16, 2004 Author Share Posted July 16, 2004 Okay, so i was messing with my amp controls today and I kind of got rid of the noise when i removed all kinds of distortion. But whenever i turn on the distortion the E string noise comes back. So maybe there's something wrong with my amp's distortion? I called my bass teacher and he told me that probably there was something wrong with the speakers (so ya, ryan was right), so yea, i'll follow ryan's advice and take my amp to this music store. If it's just that one string, it might be possible that the string is buzzing against a fret or something, and you just can't hear it without the amp on. Yea, but you see, i used my teacher's bass amp to see if everything was okay with my bass and it was working just fine. so there's something wrong with my amp for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Peedston Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 Oops, I guess I missed that in the first post. :confused: Anyway, I would guess that if it sounds ok when the distortion's off that it's not the speaker, but taking it to somebody who actually knows for sure what they're talking about is probably a good idea. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewl* Posted July 26, 2004 Share Posted July 26, 2004 If it's just that one string' date=' it might be possible that the string is buzzing against a fret or something, and you just can't hear it without the amp on. :confused:[/quote'] I hear that when i hit the G string hardly without the amp... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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