interseting bleed

[dr.colossus]

when i wsa sixteen i was recording in my old mans shed on a little porta studio, and there was a guy that lived a few doors down who was always playing around on his C.B.... any how somehow the signal from his c.b. bleed into my recording...it actually sounded really good in the end and worked well with the song, but i just don't get how this happened! i had an old valve bass rig that used to pick up this same guys signal, quite clearly, but i wasn't using it during this particular recording... all this happened about six years ago and i moved away from home since then, i'm just curious as to how the hell this happened, and if it has happened to anyone else before?

 

[Bob Sordahl]

The guy had a real strong signal, and your cables weren't shielded well enough to prevent a tiny electrical current from being generated in them. Your equipment amplified the signal.
I remember years ago when driving through blasting areas, they used to make you turn off all radios so you wouldn't accidentally set off the blasting cap at the end of that long wire with a minute signal.

 

[ausrock]

I have had it happen when I ran a longish basic type RCA cable from my soundcard to the rehearsal PA desk. The solution was to move the desk closer to the computer and use a shorter cable.
Basically the long cable acted as an antenna and picked up a certain frequency, in my case a radio station broadcasting horse races.

Peace........ChrisO

 

[Seanmorse79]

The same thing happened to Joe Satriani. Listen to the beginning of "Flying in a Blue Dream". It was a CB or radio signal that made its way onto the tape, and they left it there because it sounded so cool. They even re-created it on a sample so it was there for live performances. ...I guess even the pros deal with stuff like this, and sometimes the best stuff is created by accident.