Bass Whammy Not Playing Well with Distortion

[Azure Skies]

I have the reissue bass whammy, and it is making a waterfall noise when I have a high gain pedal activated. When the whammy is bypassed, the noise goes away. Not the end of the world I suppose, but does anybody have a similar experience and/or solution?

As an aside, in case anybody ever searches this: I am successfully powering the whammy via a voodoo labs pedal power 2, using outlet 5 (the high current one). I tried looking for this information and got nothing.

 

[bassmusic17]

Where is the Whammy in your signal chain?

 

[Azure Skies]

The whammy is first. The effect happens with all of my distortion and fuzz pedals.

 

[JasonNL]

I use my Bass whammy reissue a lot as well, with high gain fuzz (Earthbound Audio Beast) after it too, and I haven't noticed that the Whammy adds extra noise, though the Beast is already quite noisy by iself when engaged as I tend to keep the gain maxed for my desired sound. I'll see what happens next Tuesday during band rehearsal if I try to reproduce your problems with the whammy + high gain dirt after it.

 

[ole Jason]

Do you get any noise with an alternate power source for the Whammy?

 

[Tom Von Kramm]

Try putting it after your fuzz, it breaks the "rules" but that's how I run mine.

 

[AgressivePassiv]

I ran mine with a darkglass duality. I put the duality both before and after the whammy and had no issues. I liked it better with the fuzz first. I powered it with both a one spot and my furman powered board.

 

[LSMFT6]

Yeah, the B-wham does like isolated power and will add some noise if not isolated. Trying powering it with its own power supply (the factory-supplied one, preferably) and see if the noise goes away.

 

[gregmon79]

It very well could be and is most likely the power supply. I would recommend trying it with the power supply that came with it and see if that stops that noise. I use the ps that came with it on my board when I use it. I just rigged a couple power strips under my bpard and that works very well. Especially when I have an extra ps or two I have to use. The BWhammy, I would think, is going to perform better with its own ps.

 

[pink pbass]

i noticed the waterfall noise on mine when using a shared one spot power supply, as well. i had used it for months at home for practice and in my live rig, where i was using the included power supply and never noticed this noise. i put together a small fly-board a couple months ago and that's when i heard it. the new board is a line 6 g50 receiver - polytune mini - bass whammy - mxr bass di, all powered by a one spot. i only hear the noise when both the whammy and the bass di distortion are on, and it seems to only happen about a second into a sustained note. it wasn't enough to keep me from using the board though, and i never noticed it while i was actually playing live with the band.