Aux cable and CD input

[SwagAttack]

So, I am away at college and brought my guitar and bass amp. My guitar amp has a single cd in aux cable input. My bass has the audio red/white cd in. I wanted to plug my itouch into both so I can play some stuff. So I went to my school bookstore, bought the aux cable and plugged it into the guitar amp, it worked. But on the bass amp, I just plugged it into one, and the audio was really really low with a lot of buzzing. Then I noticed that whenever I touch the metal part of my itouch, it goes to normal volume. Will the aux cable just not work? I don't know if I can get the right cable to work on my bass amp if it doesn't work.

Just a funny story. Since it would only go to normal volume when I touched the metal part, I just rocked it wit my foot on it.

Edit: I have the red/white cable that has the aux part on the other end at home. So I know what cable to get, I don't think they have one at the bookstore though, and I have no car.

[J. Crawford]

Sounds like a bizarre grounding issue. That could be the cable, the amp itself, or the Touch.

[SwagAttack]

Originally Posted by J. Crawford

Sounds like a bizarre grounding issue. That could be the cable, the amp itself, or the Touch.

The only thing I could think of is that putting it in one of the input instead of having the cable that has red/white was causing the problem. I used the cable that had red/white before and it worked. I just thought using an aux cable would at worst give me one side of the headphones instead of both (it gave me both).

[steve_rolfeca]

Do you have your iPod in a sleeve? I suspect that the audio cable might not be fully seated.

I had to enlarge the headphone jack opening in my iSkin, in order to use headphones and adapter cables with oversized plugs.

[SwagAttack]

Originally Posted by steve_rolfeca

Do you have your iPod in a sleeve? I suspect that the audio cable might not be fully seated.

I had to enlarge the headphone jack opening in my iSkin, in order to use headphones and adapter cables with oversized plugs.

I don't think it is oversized, I might be wrong though. It just went normal whenever my skin touched the metal backing of the ipod.

[JTE]

Is the I-pod "aux" output a regular 1/8" tip/ring/sleeve stereo headphone mini jack? If so, and you're using a mono cable it could be shorting the output.