dbetts41 Posted October 4, 2011 Posted October 4, 2011 I was playing this evening and notice after a while that the bridge pickup in my 150 sort of fizzled away almost as though the output dropped in half???? Anyone ever had this happen?
mars_hall Posted October 4, 2011 Posted October 4, 2011 Check the switch and if anything is touching where it shouldn't in the control cavity
tulk1 Posted October 4, 2011 Posted October 4, 2011 Sorta odd for pickups to go bad. They can, but it's generally something else in the path - switch, solder joint, pot, bare wires - much more likely to cause problems than a pickup is to go bad.
dbetts41 Posted October 4, 2011 Author Posted October 4, 2011 Check the switch and if anything is touching where it shouldn't in the control cavity Mars... thanks for the info... I will look under the hood so to speak...
RockinB23 Posted October 4, 2011 Posted October 4, 2011 I had this same problem happend on a Gretsch Brian Setzer Black Phoenix about a year ago. I had a authorized Fender/Gretsch Repair guy work on it and he thought it would be a wiring issue. He re soldered a couple points that looked weak, it fixed the problem for about 5 minutes, then it happened again. It turned out that only way he was able to fix it was to replace the pickup. The pickup tested as good but for whatever reason it kept fizzling out and the going away altogether. He repair guy was very perplexed by it. After the pickup was replace it didn't happen again.
dbetts41 Posted October 5, 2011 Author Posted October 5, 2011 Well I fixed it... not sure really what the problem was... maybe a "cold" spot in the solder joint on the volume pot? I did not see any thing that was loose or disconnected so I just took my solder gun & warm up the joints and it started working properly again. thanks again to all for their insight.
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