My guitar Amp is acting like a walkie talkie!?

Question

Its turned on but I'm not playing my guitar atm but all of a sudden it started having static and I heard voices coming out of it!! I thought the first time I was hallucinating but the second time the voice adjusted to the level of volume I turned on my amp which confimred that it did come from the amp!

Please explain this bizzarre occurence!

Answer 1

Might be an electrical or magnetic interferance...

Answer 2

Here, try this:

Take any TV remote and aim it at the guitar amp. Press any button on the remote. If you hear a blip, beep, or boop noise, that should explain it.

It's all... radio activity. Not like mutations and stuff but like soundwaves and radio transmissions. That's how an amp works.

Remotes create a transmission to the TV and an amplifier will amplify the sound.

So if there were people who happened to be walking by with walkie-talkies, an amp will possibly pick it up.

Answer 3

cool dude!!!!

Answer 4

Your house is being bugged. Often listening devices can interfere with differnt radio waves. I know someone who determined that their house was buged because of signals interfering with their remote control cars.

Answer 5

Well, the electric resonators on the guitar can act like a amplifier through the amp. It picked up static or radio waves or whatever. I know that I can put the earbuds on my iPod between the strings and put them in the middle of the resonators and it will amplify the sound. It's really cool. U need to try it. Anyways, that  probably what happened.

Answer 6

You mean its walking and talking? Don't let it get away.

Answer 7

Do you have your TV on? It makes weird noises when you have a TV on in the same room.  The electronic waves from other electrical devices (such as TV) mix with the amp waves.

Hmm... it's funny how you put this in "Paranormal Phenomena"

Answer 8

yo chill dude!! your amp is just receiving near by radio waves. your amps feq and design is allowed to only RECEIVE but not transmit or interfere with other radio or broadcast freqs. read the back of your amp it should have an FCC rating on that states your amps classification. hardly a case for ghost hunters my friend

Answer 9

I cant explain.  It might be possible it is something paranormal.  What did the voices say?

Answer 10

You have a bad ground connection someplace in your input jack, the guitar,  or the guitar cable. This makes the guitar and the guitar cable act like a tuned antenna for an A.M. radio. If you want to play around some, you can probably  use the "tone" control on the guitar to tune to different stations. It'll go away and your guitar will sound better once you get a good ground. Try a different guitar cable. If that doesn't do the job, it's time to talk to a tech.

Answer 11

find a competent tech. put a RF flter in the input stage and it should disappear...1k in series and a 47 pf to gnd

Answer 12

You probably have a short either in the pickups of your guitar or in the amp itself.  More than likely its in your amp, the line filters have shorted causing outside interference to get in the amp.  The voices you hear are more than likely cell phone and cordless phone conversations.  Take your amp in to get it fixed and problem solved.

Answer 13

this is ghostly happening.  ghosts can be such hooligans! hee hee hee. ok.  you need to watch ghostbusters right away, and also casper, the one the christina ricci.  she has a big forehead, but listen- its your guitar amp we are talkin bout here- important! hee he heee

Answer 14

This is not paranormal and has nothing to do with ghosts.  You must be very young. In the sixties all guitar amps picked up CB signals by passing CB'ers. Today the Amps are better built and that problem is not as common as it was 45 years go, and CB's are not as popular, but still some pick up radio traffic.

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Answer 15

Someone near you probably has a HAM radio and is transmitting with a lot of power.

The signals are inducing a current in your amp. In other words, your amp is picking it up.

It can do this even if it's turned off because the current is actually generated by the radio waves.

Answer 16

This is actually not that weird for this to happen.  Some portable phones (not cell phones) operate on certain frequencies and sometime "bleed" over into amplifiers, hearing aids, and certain types of other audio equipment as well.  Also, if you live close to a radio or TV station, sometimes their signal will get into the audio circuits of certain types of audio equipment.