Strange Voices?

[didgijimmy]

If it is RFI I find it kind of strange that you got the same "who are you" both cuts. I can't think of anything that repeats who are you over and over except for The Who and it's obvious it wasn't them.
Funny story, I was giving a guitar lesson to a kid one time, he was like 3 months into the guitar, and I was speaking to him when out of nowhere we here, "Jesus Loves You." He started freaking out because it was pretty clear, and then more talking came in and I told him it was just some RFI, but his face at first was priceless.

 

[D28Flatpickr]

Ghost in the strings

Found the source of the strange voices ---in the track, not the ones in my head.

I agree with and admitted from the beginning there was lets of noise coming from me during this scratch track. But, as some pointed out and as I suspected, it was string noise - or more descriptively, sympathetic resonance. The complicated physics lesson that is a steel string guitar......a fragile hollow box that amplifies any sound produce on the instrument compounded by many forces trying to hold the thing together and implode it at the same time, then we add vibrating strings to the whole mess and get a bunch of resonating frequencies bouncing all over the place that most of the time create wonderful overtones and sustain-----except when you capo up to the 7th or 8th fret to ease your fingering. Then they turn into weird noise you didn't hear while you were playing plus the tones produced by sliding thick wound metal strings across metal frets-imagine a bow pulled across violin strings.

If you listen to the track, the "who" and "who are you" are in time and somewhat in key with the part being played and sound like they are being half sung instead of spoken. I'm not sure a distressed soul would want to sing along with my amateur attempts.

I played the part with a different acoustic guitar and got similar results. I played removed the capo and played the part closer to the nut on the higher strings and the ghost went away. I played the part with the capo on an electric and the ghost didn't come back. so either I finally bored it to death or it never wanted to know who I was in the first place.

Cheers

 

[Agent47]

Hi, it's actually quite common to pick up the voices of the dead if you use cheaper cabling. You want to go to the store and get psychically-shielded cables to keep out any lost souls. If your budget can't stretch that far, then maybe try getting your existing gear blessed by a priest.

I live in a Victorian house, and when I was starting out I used to get the voice of some old guy who died in the 1920s coming through, until I spent more on cabling.

 

[Chili]

Found the source of the strange voices ---in the track, not the ones in my head.

But, as some pointed out and as I suspected, it was string noise - or more descriptively, sympathetic resonance. ...

Cheers

YES, I win the prize!!! What do I get??

Now, what are you going to do about those voices in your head??

peace.