(Small) Electric shock.

[Agis Silverfish]

Greetings,

This is my first post and I just wanted to say 'hello' to you all!

You see, the most weird thing has just happeneded to me now. I was playing the bass as usual, and my girlfriend touched me and she felt a small electric discharge (is that the word?). The bass sounds and feels okay. Can you tell me why is this? Is it dangerous?? Thanks in advance.

Agis Silverfish

[bryan bailey]

Your'e grounded into the bass amp, she wasn't.

[SirPoonga]

Static electricity builds up quite often. At work just sitting in my chair for abit, then getting up and touching the file cabinets will cause a small shock.

Your electronics should be ok as they should be grounded pretty well. You were touching your metal strings, which connect to the bridge, the bridge is grounded to the ground on the output jack (weell, it should be), which gets connected to the ground on your amp when plugged in, which goes to earth ground. So she could have built up electricity too and it got channeled through you.

[Agis Silverfish]

Thank you for your answers. The amp wasn't really on the ground, it was on the top of a drawer -it's a small 30W Cube. If the problem continues I'll try putting on the floor.

[Munjibunga]

Does the plug on your amp have three prongs? Does the recepticle in the wall have three holes? It sounds to me like your amp may not be properly grounded.

[Agis Silverfish]

Nop. I've just checked it. Two prongs on the amp, two on the plug. Still, I'm in Europe, and I think our plugs may be different...