Hello all,
i am new to this forum, so cheers to everyone! i´ve recently become the proud owner of 6 28305 crescent, and while it took a while to get used to the comparably low output (and still need to adjust my right hand play), i like the versatility of the tone a lot, it is the finest guitar i have: hooray!
it will go to the technician once for check-up though, string action, octaves etc. but there is one more issue which i am not sure if they have an answer ready, so this goes here first:
i have observed that the guitar has a cracking sound whenever i switch the 5way rotator. this does not sound like dirt in the switch, because it depends on the strength of the signal going through. it rather sounds like an electric discharge - very spiky. strum all 5 strings and switch, the electric crack is very loud and sits on top of any clean sound, not possible to switch while recording and strings ring (gets drowned on distortion). it does not depend on the position of the switch and where it goes, though it fells that it is generally a bit louder when going from bridge to neck. (also noted there are two dead ends while switching between 2-3 and 3-4 very slowly as well). there is no cracking sound when switching with the guitar muted, and comparably low cracking sounds on single notes, but still preceivable and would certainly kill a recording.
so my question is this: does this have to do with the wiring which seems to have been changed post-2007? i do not understand much of the electrics, but i can see that the ground etc. were wired differently on the old ones. and is this a commong problem?
many thanks for your thoughts and opinions,
stephan
i am new to this forum, so cheers to everyone! i´ve recently become the proud owner of 6 28305 crescent, and while it took a while to get used to the comparably low output (and still need to adjust my right hand play), i like the versatility of the tone a lot, it is the finest guitar i have: hooray!
it will go to the technician once for check-up though, string action, octaves etc. but there is one more issue which i am not sure if they have an answer ready, so this goes here first:
i have observed that the guitar has a cracking sound whenever i switch the 5way rotator. this does not sound like dirt in the switch, because it depends on the strength of the signal going through. it rather sounds like an electric discharge - very spiky. strum all 5 strings and switch, the electric crack is very loud and sits on top of any clean sound, not possible to switch while recording and strings ring (gets drowned on distortion). it does not depend on the position of the switch and where it goes, though it fells that it is generally a bit louder when going from bridge to neck. (also noted there are two dead ends while switching between 2-3 and 3-4 very slowly as well). there is no cracking sound when switching with the guitar muted, and comparably low cracking sounds on single notes, but still preceivable and would certainly kill a recording.
so my question is this: does this have to do with the wiring which seems to have been changed post-2007? i do not understand much of the electrics, but i can see that the ground etc. were wired differently on the old ones. and is this a commong problem?
many thanks for your thoughts and opinions,
stephan
