guitar

i put my amp on 10 today

(its small)

and i started hearing these voices coming out of it

and im like wtf

turns out it was the AM radio

how the heck did i pick up AM/FM radio on my little amp?

your guitar transfers soud to your amp at a certain frequency.

you turn your amp up high enough it's going to hear other sound in the air around it travelling at that frequency (or near that frequency).

i think that's it.

guitar

i put my amp on 10 today

(its small)

and i started hearing these voices coming out of it

and im like wtf

turns out it was the voices in my head

 

really? wow you'd wanna get that checked out :dozey:

maybe

i jsut need a new amp

mine is only like 15 watts

i need like 100 for my band

its possesed, quik hide under the bed, ahhhhhhhh

yeah it happens all the time in my friends basement on his amp... i'm pretty sure rf_ucsd is right...

my speakers on my comp pick up a local radio station where i live...

my speakers on my comp pick up a local radio station where i live...

haha weird!

 

i'd hate if that happend though. :P

yeah it sux...

the radio waves are actually picked up through, well, the pickups in your guitar. i actually spent quite a bit of time experimenting with that, because i had a guitar with cheap pickups too at one point. :P

 

i figured out that i could change the frequency it was picking up by turning up my distortion pedal all the way and playing with the EQ on it (changing the emphasis in frequencies that it sent to the amp, thus changing the radio frequency that was being amplified).

 

that's also why i'm pretty sure it comes from your guitar, not from your amp. also, i can get it to work by plugging my cheap guitar into my good amp.

 

i do know that you're only going to get AM radio with it, because FM radio is broadcast at frequencies that are way too high for a guitar pickup to detect. i think...

oh, i guess i should say that cheap speakers should also be capable of it, because they have magnetic converters that function in a very similar way to your guitar pickups (except backwards). i wish i knew more specific details so it doesn't just seem like i'm acting like i know what i'm talking about. :lol:

someone is too smart for their own good :)