Celll Phone noise... on the gig!

**j-raj** · #1 10-10-2007, 02:35 PM

So who here has ever had a cell phone go off and that annoying clicking sound comes through your amp... or worst, through the PA?

kevinmoore73 · #2 10-10-2007, 02:37 PM

I know the sound you speak of. My Blackberry causes a horrendous noise. For that reason, I don't take it on stage with me.

need4mospd · #3 10-10-2007, 02:41 PM

No cell phones on stage!

**j-raj** · #4 10-10-2007, 02:43 PM

I totally forgot on one gig and popped my cell phone and stuff from my pockets on top of my rig (which was also plugged into the house board)... and that noise happened!

betwinxt · #5 10-10-2007, 02:53 PM

I was at a Jump Little Children show a while back, and they did a song intro where one of the guys put his cell phone against the strings, over the pickups, while it rang. The ringer came through the amplifier and they started jamming with it and launched into the song. It was pretty awesome. Other than that, I've never seen or heard a cell phone at a show of ours, or anyone else's.

lowendgenerator · #6 10-10-2007, 02:53 PM

I had that happen during worship a few weeks ago. I learned my lesson real fast. Cell phones stay in the case or car while I'm performing.

Just J · #7 10-10-2007, 03:20 PM

lol, I think it depends on the type of phone. I have Verizon and I've never had the clicks. My friends who have T-Mobile and Sprint cause clicks around amps/electronics.

enim · #8 10-10-2007, 05:31 PM

GSM phones do it, but CDMA phones typically dont. Those are the two major technologies of cell phone, so yeah. Im pretty sure its due to the fact that the cell tower and your phone are constantly communicating on GSM, becuase it divides the cell usage by time, not by channel or frequency.

IanStephenson · #9 10-10-2007, 06:06 PM

My amp absolutly doesn't pick it up - it's an old fender, and the chasis is SOLID metal, so it's totally insensitive to RF, but our guitarists rig picks up phones on a regular basis...

Ian

rodl2005 · #10 10-10-2007, 06:12 PM

Happens EVERY gig!!!!! :-(
in our li'l jazz outfit(4 Piece) My wife(vocals) & I take the P.A. & my bass rig-including my E.U.B. & always while we're setting up my wife 4gets to turn off her mobile Ph.(cell ph.) & so, as she is doing a quick soundcheck for her vocals-off it goes... bzzz, bzzzz, bz,bz,bz,bz,bz!!!! "SH*T where's my Bl**dy Phone" she says.... it's become a long running joke- we've been playing there for 2 & 1/2 yrs-every Sunday!!!

mrniceguy715 · #11 10-10-2007, 07:21 PM

my blackberry never does it even when it rang today at my lesson no noise. my budys i phone did while he was showing off his new benivente

dcr · #12 10-10-2007, 07:25 PM

Yep. no cell phones on stage. Or if you do, lay 'em on the PA speakers, not on yer amp!

dcr

kevinmoore73 · #13 10-10-2007, 08:22 PM

Bweedoh bwup bwup bup bup bup bup bup bup

Smallmouth_Bass · #14 10-10-2007, 08:26 PM

Every jam my guitarist's phone does it. Haven't had it happen on a gig though.

marcopalla · #15 10-11-2007, 07:08 AM

some years ago
on stage
my cell, forgotten in a jeans poket, starts ringing, the hell from the PA, I look to guitard and say in front of many people
"fck retarded how many times I have to say to turn your cell off"
before the next song he went to turn off his cell in a bag on the stage hihihihihihi ad apologized.
But I was more young and evil

Tommy Hagen · #16 10-11-2007, 07:14 AM

I always turn my phone off when i have it with me on stage, but there's been a few times during soundcheck where I've forgotten to turn it off.
I once heard someone call that sound the GSM shuffle.

Tommy

kevinmoore73 · #17 10-11-2007, 07:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tommy Hagen

But I once heard someone call that sound the GSM shuffle.

Is GPRS still related to GSM?

Tony G · #18 10-11-2007, 07:21 AM

I've never heard it get picked up by my amp before, and I routinely put my cell phone and keys on top of my amp at ever gig. It has happened to my keyboard player in my band, but I'm not sure what is picking it up, whether it is one of his keyboards, his laptop, or his amp....

bassman1185 · #19 10-11-2007, 07:34 AM

I've never had that happen through my bass amp, but I was running sound (I work for an A/V company) for a political fundraiser with an 1100-person PA setup (About 2400 watts through eight 1x15/horn speaker cabs), and had to use an old Sabine wireless unit because all of our newer sets had already been rented out. Early on in the program, somebody's phone went off, causing a DEAFENING blast of static through the system. That was bad...

casualmadness · #20 10-11-2007, 07:43 AM

I have a throw-away phone (pre-paid) and it does come through my speakers. But it's really bad around computer speakers.