i just opened my fender deluxe active p bass special, and when i plugged it in through my 30watt acoustic bass amp it started farting, can someone help me to fix the problem?
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what is wrong with my bass
- Thread starter shookiedookiema
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i checked the battey, it looks fine but i'll change it to test for sure. it's weird though because one pickup is noisier than the other. I also took tips by putting tapes on the pickups and stuffing a piece of foam in the back of the bettey. neither worked that much
30w acoustic bass amps are not made to handle high output of the deluxe P. Try dialing the volume back. Also, your P pickup is probably way louder than the J/doubleJ so that's why it farts more.
Your right. After testing through sound canceling headphones, i am almost 100% sure it's the amp that causes the buzzing farts to happen when i dial the volume more than 1/4 up. Would a 75 watt version of the amo surfice? And the P pickups is alittle louder than the j. how come that is so?
It is not about the wattage of the (power) amp, it has to do with your preamp input. If your input is made to handle the low output of (most) acoustic bass guitars with piezo transducers, you will have hard time getting it useful enough for the electric bass which has a real load of output (like the deluxe P). The P pickup is louder due to physics: even if you put the same two pickups in positions of the P and J, the P would still be louder because it's picking up more string vibration and aside from that, the P is wired with two coils in series which probably has a way different impedance compared to the bridge pickup. The string's middle is on 12th fret, and P is closer to it so it picks up more string oscillation. This is a 'problem' on virtually all PJ basses, and it is solved by using the bridge more as an ingredient than the main pickup.
Is this a brand new bass, or something you have owned for a while? Did stop playing for any length of time? If so, and if you left the battery in it, change the battery.
Otherwise, you need to back off with the volume control because the output is probably just too hot for that amp. I have an old SD Curlee with a series/parallel switch and at anything more than about 7 on the volume control, it makes the input of any amp break up. When I first noticed this, I though my amp was blowing up because it sounded like Jack Bruce when he was with Cream. Turn it down and you'll be fine.
Sorry i didn't make that clear. bassically the headphones just make the bass quieter and cancel out any buzzing.
I'd take the bass to a local music shop and play it through some of their amps to see how it works. If the problem follows the bass then the bass is the problem and Fender will fix it for you. If it works fine with other amps then you can probably adjust your amp to work with the new bass. You can even take your amp along to the shop and maybe they would be willing to walk you through how to set it up. Or if you tell us what 30W amp you have, someone here may have some specific suggestions.
Ken
Ken
