rainbowreality

Hi all, I've recently bought a zoom be and it's great apart from one thing, it's pretty noisy. At first I thought maybe the guitar needed more shielding as when I touched the strings the buzzing stopped to a large degree but it seems it may be the power supply as when I use usb power the buzzing stops. I can even power from the plug and as long as I have the usb also connected up to my PC there's no buzzing. Also if I put in a shorted Jack in the input and have a normal plug power without usb it's ok. The buzzing also stops if I hold parts of the case too. I've tried a couple of basses at a couple of different places and same result. Has anyone else had this happen and is it a faulty power supply? Any advice appreciated as it's driving me bonkers!

Hi all, I've recently bought a zoom be and it's great apart from one thing, it's pretty noisy. At first I thought maybe the guitar needed more shielding as when I touched the strings the buzzing stopped but it seems it may be the power supply as when I use usb power the buzzing stops. Had anyone else had this happen and is it a faulty power supply? Any advice appreciated!

Olliedf89 sold me a pedal and it arrived super duper fast and in bomb proof packaging. Top man

I think I may have a similar problem with a zoom b3. Silly question but what is a shorted Jack? I'd like to eliminate the guitar out of the problem!

It's all very psyched out, spaced out, stoner rock, heavy walls of beautiful noise

I'm seriously thinking of going to this in May next year. Just wondered if anyone's ever been and if so what did they think!

Got it from PMT music (yeah I know), will fit a p-bass and that sort of thing happily, in good nick just superfluous to requirements. Also comes with a free smiley face I painted over the logo. Free to a good home, or even not so good home...

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1381665419' post='2241923'] There are loads of ways of doing it, some of them more complex than others. The easiest one is to just use an ON-OFF-ON switch - that central 'OFF' point will be thud free. [/quote] Brilliant! simple but effective, a bit like me. (Except I don't seem to have developed the effective bit yet)

Do you know any way to avoid that click in a circuit? Apart from not doing it that is!

Of course!, I'm being really dumb today, must be something I drank

yep you were right! It was a connection that was at fault, causing the problem. Durrr, assumed it was the active input because it was the new element in the equation! Out of interest though, if I put a switched resistor in line with the volume pot would that work like a volume cutter/active switch? So say would a resistor half the value of the volume pot halve the total volume?

Bought a G&L Tribute L2000 off him today. Nice friendly guy (and his missus too) and he sold it to me for a good price. No hesitation in recommending him to you all! I'm very happy but I don't think my missus will be now she'll see even less of me

Hi everyone! I'd built a ruby amp with the bassman mods and it's been working fine with my bass with passive pickups by now I've started using a bass with active pickups it doesn't cope at all. It just produces very loud clicks unless the bass is turned almost zero volume and then it's mostly hiss with tiny bit of bass. I'm assuming it's because the input level is just too much. Does anyone know of a mod that will allow active input? Any help or advice very gratefully appreciated!

So far I'm really pleased with the Protec, seems nice and secure. Next week I'm going to give it it's first test, the joys of rail and public transport await!

Title says it all really!

Stickers? That decides it then

...was and still is Essential Bass Technique by Peter Murray. It's excellent and has really helped me, I just wish I'd started off with this as it gives a really solid foundation in what to do! Just thought I'd share the info in case it helps anyone

Have gone for the Protec, would have considered a Fusion F1 but would have had to wait for it to come in stock everywhere I checked. Looking forward to getting this, it's gotta be a million times better than my non waterproof, barely any protection PMT piece of rubbish!

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1380832920' post='2231397'] You may want to consider the Fusion F1 too, perhaps. I almost bought the Protec Contego a couple of weeks ago but chose the F1 instead and love it. Good protection, lots of pockets and very comfortable [/quote] Arghh! Just as I thought I'd decided you throw something else into the equation! Found the one you mentioned on Gak for £115, now I've got to choose one or the other.

Sounds interesting but it's about £50 more expensive than the protec. In your opinion is the extra cost justified?