*** is wrong with my amp? (Novice question )

[Currie82]

Wondering why my Peavey Minx 110 does the following:
- pops when I turn it off
-has a staticky sound when on
-when I use a particular effects pedal I can hear a Spanish radio station?

Forgive me if there is a simple explanation for this like maybe my speaker is blown or hell idk... Help me out guys

 

[B-string]

Pop at turn off could be normal, the rest could be a bad instrument cable between your bass and the amp and/or a bad pedal.

 

[Currie82]

Thanks for ur input B-string. My guess would be the pedal as far as picking up Spanish radio? I alternate between cables though and they are all Spectraflex with the exception of one is a no name

 

[Currie82]

The static is what eats me

 

[B-string]

The amp can only be at fault if the static is there with no cable plugged into the input. With no cable if there is no static the trouble is before the amp, if the static is there with no cable then you could have an amp problem or noise from the outlet the amp is plugged into (try a plug in a different room).

 

[Currie82]

Thanks again sir. Worst case I'll buy a new/ better cable and see what happens

 

[BassmanPaul]

Thanks again sir. Worst case I'll buy a new/ better cable and see what happens

Or you could simply live with it and learn how to speak Spanish!!

¡O usted podría vivir simplemente con él y aprender cómo hablar español!! LOL

 

[Jeff Scott]

Wondering why my Peavey Minx 110 does the following:
- pops when I turn it off
-has a staticky sound when on
-when I use a particular effects pedal I can hear a Spanish radio station?

Forgive me if there is a simple explanation for this like maybe my speaker is blown or hell idk... Help me out guys

Is the problem really that you don't understand Spanish?

 

[Currie82]

I don't care what language it is, it's annoying as hell to hear that while playing

 

[Pilgrim]

I used to live about 10 miles from a 5,000 watt AM station in the 60's, and when I hooked up a coily cord to my Precision bass and blackface Bassman, I sometimes picked up the signal from that station at a low level. Radio signals do interesting things...I suspect the cable, not the pedal. Why? because a cable makes a decent antenna, but a pedal doesn't.

 

[Zooberwerx]

Well, somebody had to post it!

 

[petrus61]

I used to live about 10 miles from a 5,000 watt AM station in the 60's, and when I hooked up a coily cord to my Precision bass and blackface Bassman, I sometimes picked up the signal from that station at a low level. Radio signals do interesting things...I suspect the cable, not the pedal. Why? because a cable makes a decent antenna, but a pedal doesn't.

If you ever listen to Hendrix at Isle of Wight, you can hear French talk radio coming in through his Marshall during Machine Gun. He also used coily cables It used to happen to me when I first started playing...forgot the "rig".

 

[Currie82]

I'm new here but I already come to the conclusion that I love talkbass

 

[Currie82]

Well, somebody had to post it!

Hahahahaha!!!