Cool discovery on bass

flakeh · #1 07-12-2007, 07:47 PM

Well, I thought i'd share my discovery i made while changing the settings on my big muff.

I'll tell it, in story form!

So, I'm sitting down, playing some bass. My muff didn't sound right so i was uping the sustain a bit, as i leaned forward, i pressed my chest against the neck pickup on my thunderbird. I quietly heard a thumping noise, so, i leaned back, it went away, leaned foward, it came back. So, I raise the volume on my muff, my 10bandeq, and my booster. guess what it is? my heartbeat!

So, i just spent the last 45 minutes - 1 hour playing with effects and my heartbeat. Adding some wah, putting some delay on, adding a chorus. all that good stuff.

Now, be off to your basses and what i have done! it's fun and kills alot of time.

tplyons · #2 07-12-2007, 08:26 PM

Yeah, those pickups will pick up a lot of cool stuff. Another of my favorites is cell phone conversations.

flakeh · #3 07-12-2007, 08:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tplyons

Yeah, those pickups will pick up a lot of cool stuff. Another of my favorites is cell phone conversations.

Really!? *goes and calls people with cell*

haha. it was also picking up the signal form my tv remote, so everytime i pressed a buttom it'd beep. Also it picked up my wireless home speakers.

Wizardgoleman · #4 07-12-2007, 09:14 PM

i can get a beep from my tv remote...thats about all i tried

Relic · #5 07-13-2007, 10:13 AM

I used to be able to sing through my old Hofner's pups

Asa Samuel · #6 07-13-2007, 10:32 AM

i get a really horroble beep from phone signals within 1 metre of my bass, its kinda annoying seeing as i keep my cell in my pcoket lots of the time so its like: dum dum dum BEEEEEEEP!!! i have a call...

Bard2dbone · #7 07-14-2007, 12:14 AM

The one I always hated was when someone called my cellphone while it was on top of my amp at practice, because shortly before it would start ringing, it would have the digital 'synchronizing signal' that made the amp say "DRRRRKA DRRRRRRRRRRRKA DRRRRRRRRRKA DRRRRRKA"

Aaron · #8 07-14-2007, 01:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bard2dbone

The one I always hated was when someone called my cellphone while it was on top of my amp at practice, because shortly before it would start ringing, it would have the digital 'synchronizing signal' that made the amp say "DRRRRKA DRRRRRRRRRRRKA DRRRRRRRRRKA DRRRRRKA"

Maybe they were calling you from Derkaderkastan.

flakeh · #9 07-14-2007, 04:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aaron

Maybe they were calling you from Derkaderkastan.

I don't know why, but that made me lol so darn hard! i am sigging that for sure.

beyondhairy · #10 07-14-2007, 11:43 PM

hahaha i remember a few weeks ago at practice, my friend came over and picked up my bass, his headphones fell down over the pickups and they started playing through my amplifier

lol it was hilarious

steve66 · #11 07-15-2007, 12:07 AM

I just farted on mine and blew up my 212 cab

Tnavis · #12 07-15-2007, 12:10 AM

I've seen several bands using various remote controls as effects, pointing them at pickups on there guitars.

The headphone remark reminded me..... waaaayyy back in the day, before my first band had a microphone, our singer used to hook a pair of headphones into a guitar amp and sing into them. If you turned it up loud enough, and yelled loud enough, it would come through.

Deacon_Blues · #13 07-15-2007, 04:59 AM

I wear my watch on my right hand so the pickups pick up the 60 bpm beat from that one quite easily, especially on higher volumes... So I often remove the watch when I play because of that.

phxlbrmpf · #14 07-15-2007, 05:15 AM

Interesting, I could've sworn I heard my watch tick through my amp during band practice on Friday but I always wear it on my fretting hand. I guess it must've been something else.

I find that as demonstrated by "experimental" guitar players using lots of distortion helps when doing that sort of thing with your pickups.

dave_bass5 · #15 07-17-2007, 04:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phxlbrmpf

Interesting, I could've sworn I heard my watch tick through my amp during band practice on Friday but I always wear it on my fretting hand. I guess it must've been something else.

I find that as demonstrated by "experimental" guitar players using lots of distortion helps when doing that sort of thing with your pickups.

Mine does that as well. I wear it on my plucking wrist and tend to rest my right hand on the bridge so its quite close to the back pup.
Ive had fun at sound checks by asking the sound guy "whats that clicking noise coming through my monitor?"