[quote name='lee650' timestamp='1507757521' post='3387844']
Well I tried mine with all the controls off and "well I never" there is a slightly (very quiet) buzzy tone!! When I turn the clean and low octave on it sounds clean! Albeit with the tone I have on the filter mines a much older one!
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cheers lee. that sounds like what im hearing! so are you able to hear the buzzing when just soloing the ""down"??
[quote name='Cuzzie' timestamp='1507791499' post='3387908']
Now I have no experience of the pedal in question, but isn't it an inherent feature of electrical equipment that there will potentially and probably is some form of back ground hum.
You have active pups in a bass and your mobile phone is in your pocket, you get a hum.
Most distortion pedals, give some hum, or any pedal has the potential (least being a tuner)
Pre amps in an amp can give a slight hum.
The simplest is touching the jack on a cable, or even a little rattle in the socket gives a hum.
The real question is how much does it matter.
Headphones and silent practice at home, everything becomes monster, your playing sounds worse because you hear everything and every nuance, but actually you start playing along a track or in a band mix and I would wager that it all disappears and you won't have someone out front saying "crikey the bass players pedals at scratchy, I couldn't sing along to Mustang Sally it was so off putting..."
Just my opinion of course.
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its not a hum. the pedal is passing signal. the pedal is actually very quiet when on, but not playing.