Hey everybody,the past few months i have been getting a lot crackling and sometimes i would lose all the output of my guitar so yesterday i put new strings in my AVRI 57 strat and while i was doing that I removed the pickguard and found the ground wire for the output jack barely hanging on the back of the POT, so I resolderd it. Got it all restrung and the crackling and loss of output was gone. Then about a half hour of playing, my guitar drastically started sounding very thin with a bit of a volume drop. idk whats going on. i fix one problem and a different porblem happens.

What do you guys think? Bad POT?

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American Vintage '57 Strat
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It could be one of several things including (and no offense) the wire you resoldered is still not connected properly. If you say one wire was barely hanging on, there may very well be more in a similar state. Frankly though, I don't think it's a bad pot.

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Clean the pot with CRC spray. A junked up pot can cause cracking and signal problems. Get the slightest debris in there when you were fooling with it an soldering.

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