Amp picking up... Radio?

[Jenra]

Hey you all... Just a question if anyone else experienced this...

So im sitting in my room playing a little Bass plugged in to my TC-Electronic RH450 and suddently i hear a feint voice... it goes away.. Im thinking am i going crazy? but then it comes again louder this time, over time i realise its the radio being picked up trough my amp... i try to find the solution for this and i fiddle a little with the amp and my bass settings.. nothing... i try put my bass in passive, and suddenly the voices from my amp stops... WHATS happening? :O

 

[Son of Bovril]

We've had the same thing at practice with the guitarists tube heads picking up radio frequencies, and at one show, the guitar amp was even picking up the PA FOH signal!? (no wireless' involved)

 

[Jenra]

i didn't use any wireless as well...
Do you know what caused this?

 

[de@n]

i didn't use any wireless as well...
Do you know what caused this?

I think that your guitar is acting as radio antenna...
Try to plug in another bass or just plain electric guitar and see if that helps...

 

[spaz21387]

Try plugging into a different outlet in your house see if that fixes the problem...

 

[niels125]

I use to have that when i had my amp in the living room, the more you turned up te trebble, the better the radio signal got

 

[Slaine01]

dont knock it - some gigs ive done I WISH I could just listen to the radio....

 

[GladToBeBack]

Never had the radio come through mine, but it's possible. My cell phone used to interfere with mine... it made this weird sweeping static noise, I thought my amp was going

 

[Jenra]

Thanks for the replies... i was just worried for a second

 

[Zooberwerx]

Never had the radio come through mine, but it's possible. My cell phone used to interfere with mine... it made this weird sweeping static noise, I thought my amp was going

My Blackberry would do the same thing to my bass amp and computer.

Riis

 

[Blankandson]

Same issue with cell phones set on vibrate. If we (the band) are in between songs or were just quiet and someone's phone would vibrate, we can all hear a clicking through our monitors. But we've asked and no one else hears it, including the sound crew, so we don't sweat it. Now when it happens we all just look at each other as if to say 'go ahead and answer it - we don't care.'

 

[Joe Louvar]

Try plugging into a different outlet in your house see if that fixes the problem...

+1, try moving the amp to a different location (even just a few feet may help) and plugging it into a different power outlet.

 

[BassOfSpades]

No need to worry about that, its just the spirit of the radio

 

[fdeck]

In my experience, radio pickup is often caused by a dodgy connection somewhere close to the input signal path, such as a loose ground at the input jack, damaged cord, etc.

In your case since you mention putting your bass into passive mode, it might be in the wiring of the bass.

 

[DiabolusInMusic]

In the case of wah pedals it's a capicitor I believe, dunlop discusses it on their site but I am no electronics expert, so it might be something like that. They also mention you can't really fix it for all areas because what might be bad in your area might be perfectly fine in mine.

 

[M0ses]

You think that's weird? If you touch your finger to the jack of a speaker plugged into an outlet in my room, YOUR BODY picks up the radio!

 

[lowstrung5]

It's more likely your bass electronics are picking it up and sending it through your amp. Sheilding of your bass preamp cavity and pickups helps get rid of it. Going to passive decreases the output of your bass signal and therefore the radio signal decreases to your amp. However, it can happen anytime the interference is strong enough or your entire rig is acting as the proper antenna for picking up the interference.

 

[Riefe88]

Check all your cables and make sure there all good. There may be a bad solder or just a bad cable

 

[Jenra]

I've asked some of the local proffs... They say it's the broadcasting from ships that i pick up, but i'm going to get my cable replaced and then im going to open my bass see if it's shielded properly, should be though..

Thanks for the replies.