I'm having problems with this bass i jus got?

Hello there,

Far too many kids with more money than sense. They show no respect for their property. I won't get on that soap box. We could be here all day and I'd never get to your question.

If when you plug a cable into the amp with the amp on, you get a popping sound. odds are the issue is in the guitar.

Plug the cable into the guitar and the cable into the amp. Tap your pickups with something metal like a screwdriver. Should get a noise through the amp. The selector switch may be screwed up so move it around while you test the pickups.

No sound at all? That means no signal is getting out of the guitar. Trace the wiring backwards from the output jack. The issue will likely be between the switch and the jack. Most likely the wire from the volume pot to the jack. Make sure both ends are soldered well and soldered to the proper locations. Check to see if the hot and ground wire from the jack are reversed.

Sound from only one pickup? That means from the switch to the jack things are all right. The issue is from the switch to the one pickup. Trace that wiring.

Sound from both, but static or squeals? Someone has screwed up the wiring. Trace it all. Look for a place where a ground and hot wire have been reversed. Also look at the wires at the solder joints. Sometimes a stray strand of the wire misses the solder joint and touches something else.

If you suspect the switch is bad, try wiring in one pickup around the switch and see if the pickup is good. Then do that same test with the other pickups. if both pickups pass good signal when wired around the switch. The switch is bad. Probably got some syruply drink into it. You can try a can of contact cleaner. But a can of that costs about the same as a new switch. So why bother. Replace the switch. Or leave it wired around the switch until you can afford a new switch.

Last and least likely, will be one or more bad pickups. If the wiring all tests out good. If you use a meter to test the wiring and it passes signal. The pickups may be shot. Syrupy drink on the coils I would guess. Check ebay for some used pickups to replace those.

It will take some work, but you should be able to restore this. Probably only need a soldering iron (and maybe a cheap meter).

You would be amazed at some of the messes I have worked on. No respect for their guitars.

Later,

Sounds like the amp from where I'm standing. If you could tune the bass using your cable, the bass and cable seem to be good. SIgnal of appropriate frequencies is obviously reaching the tuner. I think your next move would be to find something else to plug into the amp, or find a different amp to plug your bass into. That should help confirm whether the amp is the problem.

i could guess the amp, on account which you are able to song the bass. be you do no longer could spend funds to confirm. take the bass to a guitar keep and in simple terms tell them you're procuring for a sparkling bass amp and desire to take heed to them along with your contemporary kit.