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Old 08-11-2011, 03:45 PM
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Squier VM Clicking

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Just wondering if anyone has had this issue.

My Maple VM Jazz will produce clicking through the amp at practice volume. I'm going through a Bluemax compressor and a Sansamp BDDI and have tried 2 different amps/speakers. Seems to go away if I cut lots of treble.

Not sure if it's my patch cords or the cheap 500K pots in the bass or what just yet. BTW I use a pick mostly by the neck. This doesn't happen with my '73 Jazz and all the same equipment.
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Old 08-11-2011, 04:54 PM
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Maybe you're hitting the pup's magnets, or your is hard enough for the string to hit the fingerboard.

Another theory... look if it happens when you're playing an open note first, and then you press a note on the fret. If is that, the explanation can be that the click you're hearing is an electrical noise: as you play using a pick, you're not sitting your hand constantly on the strings, so if you play an open note and then you press a string, that's the noise of you reconnecting the "ground" of the circuit.

Why it only happens with that bass? Probably a problem regarding a proper shielding of your instrument.
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