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Post subject: New 68 CDR Issue - 1/2 Output volume after pop
Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 2:04 pm
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Last night I fired up my new 68 CDR amp (about 4 months old), left it on Standby for a couple minutes, and then turned it on. I set the volume to 4 and the vol on my American Deluxe Strat to about 4.5. I was plugged into channel 2 on the Vintage section, and literally within 2 minutes of playing my leg barely grazed the cable near the amp and the amp made a giant POP. It was much much louder than any pops I've heard it make before, and I was using a new cable I just bought because if I wiggled my other cable in the input jack on the amp it would pop. I thought it was the cable that was going bad, but I guess not.

I tired a different cable, all the other pickup positions, and the custom channels on the amp, but nothing made a difference. I checked the tubes and they looked fine, and that's when things got really weird...

Figuring I messed up my tube amp, so I plugged into my 5W Hottone amp with the same strat to continue practicing. I put the vol on the Hottone to 7 and I wouldn't get any sound out of it until I turned my guitar volume past 5. This is not normal for that amp, so at the point I was really confused. A pop from my amp shouldn't hurt the guitar at all, I experimented with different cables, and even took a break and retested both amps a couple hours later to make sure I wasn't loosing my mind. They really are significantly lower in volume now.

Could I have blown a fuse in the tube amp? Could something electrical have fried something in my guitar, or shorted the guitar output jack? Maybe I tripped part of a fuse on that outlet? I can't imagine anything happened to my guitar, but I don't know why the Hottone amp was also considerably weaker.

Does anyone have any ideas? The tube amp for sure has less than half of it's normal output, so is there a way for me to test the guitar to rule that out completely?


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Post subject: Re: New 68 CDR Issue - 1/2 Output volume after pop
Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 6:33 pm
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Sounds like the problem lies in the wiring of the guitar. Maybe, the output jack? Or a popped cap, in the axe.


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Post subject: Re: New 68 CDR Issue - 1/2 Output volume after pop
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 1:11 am
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BMW2002Ti wrote:
Sounds like the problem lies in the wiring of the guitar. Maybe, the output jack? Or a popped cap, in the axe.


+1

To confirm that, try a *different* guitar in both of the seemingly afflicted amps. If they play normally you've found the culprit.

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Post subject: Re: New 68 CDR Issue - 1/2 Output volume after pop
Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2017 12:50 pm
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Why not turn the guitar up to 10? Mine sounds terrible at 4 or 5.


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Post subject: Re: New 68 CDR Issue - 1/2 Output volume after pop
Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2017 2:47 pm
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LawFlow wrote:
Why not turn the guitar up to 10? Mine sounds terrible at 4 or 5.


+1!

Any guitar with the volume set that low will sound emasculated.

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