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Title: Can your bass predict cell phone calls! Mine does!
Post by: the_8_string_king on May 01, 2006, 10:18:26 AM: Yeah, my girlfriend got a new cellphone recently, and I asked her the brand, but went and forgot it...

But... if/when I'm playing my custom Europa, I'll consistently get a sound right before her cell phone gets a call.

The first time it happened, there was a slight anomolous sound for a second, somewhat static-y, similar to the sound that comes on TV before a routine emergency broadcast. When it happened, I was like what the...? , and then her cell phone rang. After the second or third time, it became clear that my bass was detecting the call before it rang her phone, and there have been several times since then that it's happened while playing, and I've said your cell phone is about to ring -and it's rung seconds later!!!

Yeah, it seems a little freaky!!! But it does it every time. Now, I've got a pretty elaborate custome electronics package, so maybe this is unique to my bass... or maybe not! I'd like to know.

So... does anyone else have experience with their bass (Alembic or otherwise) predicting or detecting cell phone calls?

It's obvious that -somehow- the electronics are able to detect the energy being sent to the phone. I find it actually a little disturbing, as that same energy must be permeating our bodies.
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Post by: palembic on May 01, 2006, 10:29:33 AM: Yep ...oveheerhoo!
Bonnie is extremely sesnitivge to cell-phones ringing and predicts mine ringing too!
And it can get a hell-uf-a-noice when you wear the cellphone at your belt the height of the PU's behind Bonnie's body!
I am sure the explanation will be simple -I am no technician- but my cellphone is faaaaar away when I am playing on stage.

Paul TBO
Title: Can your bass predict cell phone calls! Mine does!
Post by: tom_z on May 01, 2006, 10:58:06 AM: My Skylark experiences interference just prior to and while my cell phone is ringing. If I keep the phone several feet away from my guitar - no problem.

Peace
Tom
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Post by: dadabass2001 on May 01, 2006, 11:00:04 AM: My Epics have been doing this for at least a year now. Whenever bandmates are in proximity (within 10-15 feet) I get a precursor of their call with what I now call the cell-phone shuffle.
Imagine a bad soft-shoe routine to the sound of nit-nit-nanit-nit na-nit-nit nit. Somebody should write a tune from it (besides Victor's What would I do without my cellphone from Soul Circus.)

Mike
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Post by: bigredbass on May 01, 2006, 11:22:00 AM: Ah, the mysterious electromagnetic ether . . . I used to live right below a cell phone tower and could listen to all kinds of cell phone conversations on channels 69 and 70 on TV, and did I hear some interesting conversations!!

The BigRedBass is not predicting incoming calls, though.

J o e y
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Post by: spliffy on May 01, 2006, 11:26:17 AM: We get that on our car radio, and with my Active Fender Bass. Kinda cool at first, but annoying after a while : )
Title: Can your bass predict cell phone calls! Mine does!
Post by: the_8_string_king on May 01, 2006, 11:27:15 AM: Interesting... so I'm NOT the only one. It sounds like -so far at least- that this is limited to ALEMBIC instruments.

Maybe Alembic should branch off and make tricorders!!!
Title: Can your bass predict cell phone calls! Mine does!
Post by: valvil on May 01, 2006, 11:59:41 AM: Yep, keep the cell away when you're playing. That goes for your I-pod or MP3 player too.

Valentino
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Post by: dela217 on May 01, 2006, 12:18:23 PM: My Series II picks up the cell phone shuffle too. It picks up all kinds of stuff. I guess an upgrade is in order.

BUT, my oldest Alembic from 1972 is dead quiet. Go figure.
Title: Can your bass predict cell phone calls! Mine does!
Post by: David Houck on May 01, 2006, 05:22:32 PM: I think it has something to do with homeland security tapping in. That's why you hear the noise before it rings; they need to get connected before you answer, otherwise you would know your call's been tapped. So if you hear the noise, you're probably on the list.

/TIC
Title: Can your bass predict cell phone calls! Mine does!
Post by: lbpesq on May 01, 2006, 05:25:41 PM: Alembic is coming out with a new option:

Now available for Series 1 and 2 instruments - Caller I.D.! LOL

Bill, tgo
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Post by: olieoliver on May 01, 2006, 05:33:10 PM: They knew you were going to say that Dave!
Title: Can your bass predict cell phone calls! Mine does!
Post by: crgaston on May 01, 2006, 08:28:30 PM: My buddy's guitars or amp do it, too, so it's not just Alembic. He plays mostly vintage U.S. guitars and amps.

Mark, I hear you on the tricorders. I'm sure an Alembic phaser is already a buildable device, and maybe someday we can have dilithium-powered electronics. They could call the rackmountable version the DS-9...
Title: Can your bass predict cell phone calls! Mine does!
Post by: jacko on May 02, 2006, 04:47:03 AM: I also get this. We make sure all band phones are switched off during gigs. The biggest problem I get with this is with my alarm clock/ radio which regularly goes off in the middle of the night, usually there isn't even a text - must be some sort of suppier signal. I only have a mobile for out of hours callout so I can't switch it off sadly.

Graeme
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Post by: dadabass2001 on May 02, 2006, 05:08:25 AM: Jacko,
a quick fix = don't take your clock/radio to shows. Then you won't hear it when.....

Oh, Oh never mind
Mike

(Message edited by dadabass2001 on May 02, 2006)
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Post by: jacko on May 02, 2006, 05:10:04 AM: Ha!
Title: Can your bass predict cell phone calls! Mine does!
Post by: keavin on May 03, 2006, 08:52:58 AM: Every now & then i'll get the police frequency through my amp while playing old#12,and as a result I've dumped plenty of good pot cause i thought they were at my front door!.....LOL.LOL!!!
Title: Can your bass predict cell phone calls! Mine does!
Post by: olieoliver on May 03, 2006, 09:09:35 AM: (Think Scottish accent here)Aye Charrrles, we've got to have more time, the engine rooms a wreck, and all these Trrrribbles, and I can't get a signal on me CEll phone.....
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Post by: lbpesq on May 03, 2006, 10:19:12 AM: No signal on the cell phone? It's dead, Jim

Bill, tgo
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Post by: olieoliver on May 03, 2006, 10:27:12 AM: Logic dictates that this would mean there maybe no signal to process. Therefore I have deduced that there is no signal being sent, leading me to the conclusion that we have been transported back in time to 1969, ....I reapeat don't take the blue acid........''cuse me while I kiss the sky...bearn..daern.. daer daern da daern da daern... HMMM interesting!
Title: Can your bass predict cell phone calls! Mine does!
Post by: jlpicard on May 04, 2006, 10:39:49 PM: As Captain, my opinion is that we are being taunted by the Continuum. You just need to adjust your Q control. If that doesn't work, you can fire Photons
out of the Phaser..er, I mean Laser LEDS! MAKE IT SO!
Title: Can your bass predict cell phone calls! Mine does!
Post by: crgaston on May 05, 2006, 12:29:09 AM: We're total geeks.
8-)

I love it!
Title: Can your bass predict cell phone calls! Mine does!
Post by: lbpesq on May 05, 2006, 06:06:36 AM: Live long and prosper.

Bill, tgo
Title: Can your bass predict cell phone calls! Mine does!
Post by: the_8_string_king on May 05, 2006, 02:56:42 PM: I just thought of an early Next Generation episode in which Data has the computer replicate (in about a second) an old guitar for an earthman discovered in suspended animation in deep space.

What a thought! Boy, would I go nuts if I had a replicator!!!

Computa! Replicate a 2017 series III 7-string Alembic Baritone guitar/bass with dual direction octivator -and an Earl Gray tea, hot!

Please specify options!

Uh... D'oh!!!

I'd bet having a neutronium sustain block would really increase sustain!!!
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Post by: davr35 on May 06, 2006, 01:50:37 PM: When I listen to my Sirius Starmate with headphones I get a buzzing sound just before my cell phone rings
Title: Can your bass predict cell phone calls! Mine does!
Post by: ajish4 on May 06, 2006, 03:32:32 PM: I get a CLICK CLICK CLICK, sort like a metronome on speed. Only when I'm playing my EPIC.

However, it also comes over my computer speakers....

(Message edited by ajish4 on May 06, 2006)
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Post by: essencetimestwo on May 20, 2006, 06:44:15 PM: My wife doesn't mind when I go to practice anymore now that I don't miss it when she calls. If it bothers you turn the phone off. It is that simple.
Title: Can your bass predict cell phone calls! Mine does!
Post by: bumhucker on May 29, 2006, 09:51:10 AM: i saw p-diddy being interviewed by david letterman and his cell did the same thing- the mic or whatever picked up the same interference. on national tv! it ddn't ring it was just the same nit-na-nit-na-nit.
i just got an epic and my gal's cell is doing it to me. i'll have to remember that in the studio! luckily my phone won't do it.