Figured I would field the question here on the good ol' EB forums. Glad to see this forum still going strong after so many years.
My main guitar has been a 2002 EB Petrucci 6 string (no piezo) since 2006. For the past few years I've experienced intermittent volume drops while playing it. I did all sorts of testing, but it was so elusive it kept me guessing. Sometimes it would show up immediately, other times not at all. At first, I thought it was a bad tube or circuitry in my Zoom G92.tt unit, so I sold that off and bought an NUX MG-30 which is excellent. I run L/R out into two Roland Cube 30 solid state amps via the AUX and use them as monitors.
The volume knobs and pickup selector work fine with no hum or noise when using them. Nothing is loose. The issue showed up earlier this week while playing the NUX, so now I'm confident that it's the pickups or something else in the guitar.
What should I check first?
Signal chain:
My main guitar has been a 2002 EB Petrucci 6 string (no piezo) since 2006. For the past few years I've experienced intermittent volume drops while playing it. I did all sorts of testing, but it was so elusive it kept me guessing. Sometimes it would show up immediately, other times not at all. At first, I thought it was a bad tube or circuitry in my Zoom G92.tt unit, so I sold that off and bought an NUX MG-30 which is excellent. I run L/R out into two Roland Cube 30 solid state amps via the AUX and use them as monitors.
The volume knobs and pickup selector work fine with no hum or noise when using them. Nothing is loose. The issue showed up earlier this week while playing the NUX, so now I'm confident that it's the pickups or something else in the guitar.
What should I check first?
Signal chain:
- Guitar
- Planet Waves Cable (tested, good)
- NUX MG-30 (brand new, up to date firmware, tested, good)
- L/R cables out to AUX input of two Roland Cube 30 amps (left / right)
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