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Post subject: Guitar Sound Keeps Going Out
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 1:48 am
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It's annoying. It's just a cheapo warmup/practice guitar a Squier mashup but it was one of my first guitars and has a lot of sentimental value.

I'll be playing on it and the sound will just cut out. A quick smack of the pickguard will return it.

Haven't opened it up yet, but still. Frustrating.


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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 2:01 am
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Probably just a bad contact. If it does it on all pickup positions it could be the plug socket or volume pot. If just on a particular pickup then I'd look at the selector switch. Either way, not too hard to fix.

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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 2:04 am
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Yeah, just annoying. Something about having to pop off strings always saddens me=\


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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 2:51 am
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Well just keep wacking it until you need to change strings. I had a similar problem with my Strat for nearly a year. When my friend bought it off me it took him nearly ANOTHER year before got around to fixing it!

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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 3:39 am
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I'll never be able to part with this thing. All of my learning was done on this guitar. So many nicks and dings and scratches and stuff. All kinds of burns from a solering pencil inside, globs of solder I had to remove from improper solders, crazy replacement string trees from a different guitar when it fell and broke the tree somehow, even a terrible Fender decal I put on the headstock years and years ago when things like that mattered to me. <3 my Squier, it's all character, even thought it sounds twangy as $@!&.


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Post subject: Re: Guitar Sound Keeps Going Out
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 6:29 am
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Ceallach wrote:
It's annoying. It's just a cheapo warmup/practice guitar a Squier mashup but it was one of my first guitars and has a lot of sentimental value.

I'll be playing on it and the sound will just cut out. A quick smack of the pickguard will return it.

Haven't opened it up yet, but still. Frustrating.


Are you sure it isn't your cable?


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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 6:34 am
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"Slap Bass" now, "Smack Guitar". It just goes to show you, musical techniques are always evolving!

Seriously, you either have a loose wire or the switch itself has a dirty or too lightly mating contact. Regardless, and as has been said, it is an easy fix but you have to be able to flip that pickguard over and eyeball what exactly is or is not going on. If you really don't want to take the strings off, loosen them all then push down on your tremolo arm so you can slip the pickguard out (and back) under the strings this way. Slip the pickguard out towards the high E side. Be careful that the components clear your guitar upon removal or reinstallation of the pickguard or the components may scratch your guitar.

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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 6:37 am
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Not the cable. Works fine with the Jaggie and other strat.

I'm gonna go into it later. Clipping the strings isn't a huge deal.


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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 6:45 am
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Ceallach wrote:
Not the cable. Works fine with the Jaggie and other strat.

I'm gonna go into it later. Clipping the strings isn't a huge deal.


That's the spirit!!!

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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:00 am
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Temptation to do more work while it's apart rising...


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Ceallach wrote:
Temptation to do more work while it's apart rising...


Again, that's the spirit; go for it!!!

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The beater might be sporting chrome tubes and a new pickguard soon.


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