Mysterious Farting

[TN WOODMAN]

Pea Soup and Delicious is an Oxymoron
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I’ll never eat pea soup again without thinking of Linda Blair in The Exorcist. Now that I think of her, haven’t seen her in a while.

 

[TN WOODMAN]

Great name for a band.

Mysterious Farting and Sonic Weirdness (in previous post) sounds like a band name.

 

[707GK]

I always joke that if I die before my wife, I will haunt her with mysterious farting. So I’m inclined to think it’s a ghost.

 

[Sixgunn]

Check the batteries in your Warwick. Dying batteries cause all kinds of sonic weirdness.

^^^This!!!^^^

Had me mystified, once upon a time...

 

[JeezyMcNuggles]

I noticed that as I hit lower notes, my cab sounds like it's farting out. Honestly I don't know for certain if I'm using the proper language here so I'd be happy to hear some clarification...

It seems like the sound is distorting. And as the note fades the distortion seems to lower, but it's not like a volume-induced on or off. I notice it around A or Ab and it stays there all the way to E. It happens even when my volume is low. Like try not to wake the kids volume.
Actually I just plugged in and I notice it all the way up to E (3rd sting, 7th fret, what is that E4?) And it is more pronounced with higher volume and with my bass knob boosted. I'm playing a Warwick FNA which has a MM style humbucker with active electronics.
The mysterious thing is that with my other bass I don't hear it at all. It's a Yamaha Attitude Standard which is a PJ style bass and just volume and tone and a 3-position selector switch.
I'm playing through a Genz Benz Shuttle 6.0 and an Avatar 210. It's mostly flat for eq, and I still hear it even when the bass is cut all the way.
It seems like it should be happening on both basses, so what's up? Any thoughts? Anything I can try to do to figure out the cause?
Thanks

Edit: Just googled it cause I had to know. Low E on bass is E1 and the note I was talking about was E2.

Pickups too high? Plucking too hard? Gain too high?

 

[Element Zero]

Pea Soup and Delicious is an Oxymoron
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[Jim Carr]

Great name for a band.

I had a band in 1967 called Sonic Wallpaper. We played a lot of gigs a Rhode Island School of Design at that time.

 

[Drog]

No real comment, just the the thread title made me laugh
Thanks

 

[CATFISHMcC0Y]

+1 on dead battery

 

[TuneIn]

Yeah, check battery.

Or....Do you have any acoustic stringed instruments in the room possibly producing sympathetic harmonics?

 

[locisbrelm]

Could be air coming out a empty jack in the back

 

[GretschWretch]

I was well-schooled in critical thinking and inductive and deductive analysis, and therefore usually I am able to identify the cause. So my farting isn't mysterious; merely distressing.

 

[bcbassman]

The battery in the bass is where you should start, but check the tightness of the machine heads when you remove the strings. the main bolt that secures the Machine head to the bass can work loose and create noise in your signal.

Test it out and see.

 

[thetragichero]

sometimes vocalists at church won't walk out to their spot on stage until the set starts, which is agony for me since i pretty much fart the entire time I'm up there

 

[bhendrix]

Our drummer has mysterious farting - silent, but deadly!

 

[john_g]

Have you been talking to my wife? What do you know???

 

[Rip Van Dan]

This thread title has my dying over here!

Yeah, I kind of thought it might be a "who done it" kind of thread...

 

[FunkHead]

Mysterious Farting and Sonic Weirdness (in previous post) sounds like a band name.

Or the Headliner/warmup band.

 

[BassmanPaul]

Our drummer has mysterious farting - silent, but deadly!

Aha! The famous SBD!

 

[MYLOWFREQ]

I blame the drummer.