Mysterious fuzziness and lower volume?

[GlitteryChunks]

The output of my bass was much lower than usual. And was accompanied by a constant crappy pseudo-fuzz like sound to it as well as occasional volume swells. It's an active/passive but switching between modes and taking out the battery didn't change anything.

I checked my main cable, wiggled it on both sides and even tried a new cable, but the sound remained the same. I took the pedals out of the chain entirely and the same sound. I opened up the back, no wiring was obviously loose, I even tugged at the wires of the jack and nothing changed. It can't be the jack because I replaced my old closed one for a fancy tele-esque open stylee a few months ago.

I took a long break from playing due to a wrist injury. The first time I played since then was a few days ago and everything was fine but now this? Then for the hell of it I tapped on each of the pickups, it didn't give me any clues and still no change in sound.


what the h am I gonna do with all this s?

[MEC]

Could it be the amp?

[GlitteryChunks]

I thought about that but it hardly ever moves, so I have a hard time letting myself believe it. It's not even that old, bought it over the summer new.

[MEC]

Is it tube or solid state?

Recently, I had an amp that was fairly new just stop working all together one day.

[GlitteryChunks]

Solid state. It's an orange combo

[MEC]

I'd try a different amp with the same guitar and cables just to rule that out.

[Tristan]

Yep, just try everything separately I'd say.
It could also be the volume pot, have you tried tapping on it and turning it?
Even though you say it shouldn't be the jack input it could very well be, if the part where the jack clicks in isn't bent / aligned properly you can get these kind of issues as well.
Other than the amp and the cable which already have been mentioned I can't think of much else either.
Good luck!

[GlitteryChunks]

So I switched basses to my passive and the same sound happened, so it's definitely the amp. That's when I realized there were two power outages in between the times I played that I didn't even register. I had left all of my stuff plugged in so......



Now I might be sitting on over $500 of plastic and metal...........

I don't have the strength to confront this problem to it's full depth yet.

[Tristan]

Aww, that sucks mang!
I hope it turns out not to be that bad for ya!

[MEC]

If you bought it new you may have some kind of warranty on it.

[GlitteryChunks]

So I checked all the pedals that were hooked up during the outage and somehow everything is intact!!!

The only one I'm not entirely sure about is my fuzz. It's sounding pretty dark, like way darker than usual, but it's Ge so it could be the weather but the eq is also set incredibly differently on my other amp. And no popping/general shittiness! But something very weird happened just now...

Before I could really dive into changing the eq i went and sat down in front of my amp and accidentally hit the power switch off with my foot and then my whole room lost power!!!!

wtf is going on here?

There were only a few things plugged in so I didn't overload anything....

Tomorrow I will go into the store and see if they can help me with the amp.

[MEC]

wtf is going on here?

GREMLINS!

[trace]

I thought my old kustom head got fried in a thunderstorm once, turns out it was just a blown internal (soldered in) fuse, hopefully yours is something similarly easy to fix.