Thank you David. You can count on it.
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Doesn’t have to be Joy Division or jazz, Square Hammer by Ghost goes well above the twelfth fret and it’s hardly adventurous. I think it’s pretty common in rock too
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Thanks, @david.addis i can’t possibly take all the credit…but I will, 
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I have a hard time converting fret numbers above 12 to notes without actually looking a fretboard, so I’m not sure what notes we’re talking about here. 
But you could try fiddling with your EQ (on your bass, amp, pedals, whatever you have). Specifically, try cutting the different bands, or if you’re boosting some, try turning them down. I know I can get some really loud notes if I have the bass or low mid turned up too high, so I usually have them both cut.
But yeah, could be resonating with something in the room, so if that’s the case, might be something you can fix with some EQ fiddling.
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Interesting the particular notes here.
7 and 19 on the E are both B
14 on A is… B
21 on the D is… B again
Wanna guess what 16 on G is? Yup, it’s B.
Sounds like you’ve got some sort of harmonic resonance somewhere in your system. Time to start identifying variables and isolating them to figure out where the resonance is.
Test pickups - does it happen when you select a both single pickups?
See if the pickups are vibrating - press them with a free hand while holding a B (possibly with a capo)
Isolate the strings: Cover your body and guitar in a heavy blanket so the amp doesn’t affect the strings
Are you properly muting your unplayed strings?
Move the amp to a different location or orientation in the room (try turning it 90*, 180*, moving to a different corner, lift off the floor, angle up, etc.)
Move the amp to a different room.
See if you can borrow a different amp and use it in your room (same location).
See if you can borrow a different bass.
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Well spotted! I never thought to actually check the notes. That really does emphasise the likelihood of it being resonance somewhere!
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The bass player of Pet Shop Boys
If nothing else works, maybe you could try something like this amp stand someone on here recommended. I love mine, and it helped me not annoy my downstairs neighbor.
You could try elevating the amp off the floor with something you already have (maybe put it on a table or desk), just to see if it helps before investing in a stand.
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Great…now who are the Pet Shop Boys?
When it comes to rock I’m as '70 Classic Rock as it gets. I can tell you who the bassist was for many of those bands but beyond that? Not so much. I come from an era where men were men and bassists didn’t even know noted above the 12th fret even existed. 
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I had to look it up, but I guess they did that 80s song, West End Girls. So one hit wonders?
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He wasn’t the bassist for Pet Shop Boys.
West End Girls is probably their best known song. Better than decent 80s synthpop band.
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Those are still the only notes we actually get paid for. 
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I always mix up Pet Shop Boys and New Order, sorry
That song definitely evokes a very particular vibe for me. I remember hearing it on the radio at that time in my life. West End Girls and The Boys of Summer by Don Henley are like icons of that era to me personally. Oh, and Broken Wings by Mister Mister. I could go on. So many. But that was that impressionable time in my life where most people’s favorite music comes from. 
Funny because I’m the 80s and 90s I said I hated 80s music, but now I really dig it. Psychology is amazing.
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Ah…there’s a tune I actually know.
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It was only a decade or so ago that I learned what the actual lyrics of that song are. I won’t tell you what I thought they were before then.
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It just occurred to me . . . do we even get paid to play the G-string at all? Poor G-string . . . 
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if anyone wants a fun, fictionalized movie about joy division, new order, happy mondays, and the general manchester UK music scene in the 80-90s i very much love “24 hour party people”:
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Such an awesome movie and only lightly fictionalized actually - most is real (rofl at the Howard Devoto scene - “I don’t remember that”). Maybe highly sensationalized though (ahahaha Bez).
It’s the story of Tony Wilson and his (and JD/New Order’s) record company, Factory Records.
Rob Gretton will never not crack me up.
For a really awesome and not sensationalized at all movie about Joy Division, you can’t beat Control. Speaking of Rob Gretton…
“It’s in my Fuck Off pocket!”
The actors did an incredible job, that’s them really performing the music. They look spot on too.
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Only at need and below the 12th fret.
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