Need some expert advice

Bass_Bear

Bass_Bear

New member
So due to a busy schedule I hadn't gotten around to playing much recently which sucks, but now that I have more free time I'm back on track and playing more again. I've realized in my recent playing sessions that I have a significant amount of buzz noise coming from my amp when my fingers aren't on the strings.

This buzz or static is amplified about 10 fold when I boost the tone knob. Now I'm thinking its poor grounding on the tone knob, or I need to shield my bass, but I'm really not sure. The amp itself is not the greatest one in the world, but its still not bad. As far as room conditions are concerned, I'm basically in a basement with floating ceiling and 2 fluorescent lights. It could be cross frequency, but for some reason I doubt it.

Any ideas on what it could be and more importantly, what I could do about it? Would fixing a grounding issue consist of anything more than re-soldering?

Thanks a bunch

J
 
Re: Need some expert advice

You are going to get told it's a bad ground and that you need to go through and resolder all the joints.

I'm not saying that, that's just what you're going to get told.
 
Re: Need some expert advice

Ok, so I accept the fact that people are going to tell me to re solder. Do i listen?

J
 
Re: Need some expert advice

Does the buzzing stop when you turn off the flourescent lights? If so, you need to shield the control cavities.

If not, then make sure you don't have major appliances on the same circuit your amp is on, and that signal cables are not crossing power cables.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top