Clicking (not hitting pickups or frets)

[wRaith]

Hey all.

My bass has recently started clicking. Now, it's not from hitting the strings into the pole pieces, it's not when I put my fingers on the strings (ie grounding problem) and it's not fret noise. Even when my bass is just sitting there with the amp on, no fingers on strings at all, I get a steady, even clicking, ticking noise (like a metronome) through my amp. I play a Yamaha RBX170 through a Behringer BX800. Don't start on the amp, I know it's coming from the bass because my delay pedal makes the click repeat if I put it in.

Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing the problem.

Cheers.

[Edwcdc]

If the bass is active, it may be the battery. You could also be getting some interference from something else in the room like a computer.

[wRaith]

Bass is passive, I'll try turning the TV and computer off and see how that goes.

[wRaith]

The bass has stopped making the noise now (next morning). Thanks for the help, it was the TV I think.

[Edwcdc]

Rock on!

[Andy73]

Do you have a new watch? That happened to me. If I got my watch anywhere close to my pickups, my bass would start "ticking" with every move of the second hand.

[FunkSlap89]

Originally Posted by Andy73

Do you have a new watch? That happened to me. If I got my watch anywhere close to my pickups, my bass would start "ticking" with every move of the second hand.

solution = wearing watch on left hand!

[Pajama_Bottoms]

Do you live an area where someone might have an electric fence? We were doing a recording in a "home studio" (read: drummer's basement) once and experienced a mysterious click on a lot of our playbacks. Finally we traced it down to his grandparents' electric fence (plugged in a quarter mile away). We would have to periodically check for free roaming cattle whenever we were recording.

Ah, the pleasures of Tennessee. . .