cooking bacon through electrocution

When I turn my 24-08 guitar volume off in between songs it sounds like I'm cooking bacon through electrocution. It sizzles and pops like Sunday's breakfast. What the flip?

 

Have you tried another cable?

 

Have you tried a different amp? I have an amp that does something similar. Really need to get that worked on.

 

This is the one and only situation where bacon does not make it better.

 

I’d be taking sandpaper to the jack contacts, first, then spinning the pots back and forth until it disappeared. Then, I’d be rolling my preamp tubes.

 

First thing - Check your cable.

 

Cable. Swap it.

Contact Cleaner. Apply to pots, jacks, and cables.

Does it happen with any other guitar, or that guitar on any other amp?

 

Yeah it was a cable. No more bacon. So electronically why does it do that?

 

After a while regular cable could have questionable solder joints etc. If it's been around a while, getting stepped on on stage, coiled over and over it could degrade.
I went wireless.

 

Check Cable first. And if it's a tube amp you're playing through, wonky tubes get noisy!

 

Connections can get very weird in what happens signal wise - the micro-current flowing through from the signal can throttle weirdly through a flaky connection. I've had microphone cables start to fail where the vibration from the vocals caused the connection to "bounce" good/bad at about 20 Hz - a real weird super-fast tremolo. Or it could have gone partially antenna-like, picking up random noise from your environment.

 

Our band's first album, the cable on the snare went bad in such a way that it would allow signal through when the drummer hit the snare, so on the waveform it looked like a good signal was there, but actually it would stop sending signal quickly after the transient. It was unusable and I didn't notice until we were done tracking and started mixing. It was a nightmare. Cables, man. <shakes head>

 

Conductive wire and connections can and will eventually degrade because of use. You really can't maintain a cable, other than use some De-Oxit on the plugs and check for splitting wrap or protruding wire. Even internally, the conductive wire can be compromised if the cable has seen plenty of use.

Best to be prepared and keep several extra cables on hand in case one goes bad during practice or gigs.

Which cable brand are you using? (Personally have had decent results with Mogami...)

 

Have you tried not cooking bacon on your amp’s tubes?

 

Spatters too much grease. Doesn't make it easy to clean. Like spitting in the wind. Sylvester had an issue with that. No sense in doing so.

 

Solid plan!