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Hi guys.
I have a problem with my Jackson Pro SL2 - the neck pick up seems to be dying (?).
Couple days ago, while I was playing, the neck pickup (seymour duncan '59) suddenly seemed to have died off. The sound did not completely die off but was very weak, almost acoustic, and when I roll back the tone knob off to 0, the neck pick up would go dead silent.
The bridge pick up (duncan JB) seemed to be fine and when I had the pickup selector in the middle position, I could only hear the bridge position - I couldn't tell the difference between the bridge position and the middle position.
So I didn't know what the problem was so I took it to a local guitar shop for the technician to take a look.
I told the tech what the problem was and the tech initially thought the problem could be either:
1. grounding issue (most likely)
2. bad pickup selector switch (somewhat likely)
3. dead pickup (not likely, but possible)
So after that, he opened the back up and combed through the wires to check for the grounding issue only to see that everything was in order and wiring seemed to be fine.
Next, he closed the guitar and plugged it to an amp and, all of a sudden, the guitar was working fine. The neck pickup was working as it should be, I could definitely hear the difference between the middle and the bridge position and the neck pickup did not go silent when the tone knob was rolled off. (the whole scene made me look like an idiot)
Came back home and the guitar was still doing fine, so I just kind of thought it was some fluke and maybe the tech combing through the wires kind of fixed whatever the problem was.
But of course, the same problem came back last night when I was playing.
Same issue, but this time it also had an effect to the bridge pickup.
The neck pickup had the same problem as mentioned above but when I was playing a chord on the bridge, it sounded very rumbly (?) - almost like I had a tremolo effect with a very short interval going though.
So I tried to do the same thing the tech did - open the back up and kind of combed through the wires, which really isn't doing much if at all.
This did fix the problem with the bridge pickup (sounded fine and awesome, as usual) but did not fix the problem with the neck pickup. So I left the guitar unplugged, had it sit for a day and tried again today but to this moment, the neck pickup is still not working.
And I did confirm that there was nothing wrong with my other equipment (amp, cables, etc) as I've checked that everything was working fine with my two other guitars.
So I am very confused as this never happened to me.
Need some help and advice please!!
Thanks for reading the long post and thanks in advance!
I have a problem with my Jackson Pro SL2 - the neck pick up seems to be dying (?).
Couple days ago, while I was playing, the neck pickup (seymour duncan '59) suddenly seemed to have died off. The sound did not completely die off but was very weak, almost acoustic, and when I roll back the tone knob off to 0, the neck pick up would go dead silent.
The bridge pick up (duncan JB) seemed to be fine and when I had the pickup selector in the middle position, I could only hear the bridge position - I couldn't tell the difference between the bridge position and the middle position.
So I didn't know what the problem was so I took it to a local guitar shop for the technician to take a look.
I told the tech what the problem was and the tech initially thought the problem could be either:
1. grounding issue (most likely)
2. bad pickup selector switch (somewhat likely)
3. dead pickup (not likely, but possible)
So after that, he opened the back up and combed through the wires to check for the grounding issue only to see that everything was in order and wiring seemed to be fine.
Next, he closed the guitar and plugged it to an amp and, all of a sudden, the guitar was working fine. The neck pickup was working as it should be, I could definitely hear the difference between the middle and the bridge position and the neck pickup did not go silent when the tone knob was rolled off. (the whole scene made me look like an idiot)
Came back home and the guitar was still doing fine, so I just kind of thought it was some fluke and maybe the tech combing through the wires kind of fixed whatever the problem was.
But of course, the same problem came back last night when I was playing.
Same issue, but this time it also had an effect to the bridge pickup.
The neck pickup had the same problem as mentioned above but when I was playing a chord on the bridge, it sounded very rumbly (?) - almost like I had a tremolo effect with a very short interval going though.
So I tried to do the same thing the tech did - open the back up and kind of combed through the wires, which really isn't doing much if at all.
This did fix the problem with the bridge pickup (sounded fine and awesome, as usual) but did not fix the problem with the neck pickup. So I left the guitar unplugged, had it sit for a day and tried again today but to this moment, the neck pickup is still not working.
And I did confirm that there was nothing wrong with my other equipment (amp, cables, etc) as I've checked that everything was working fine with my two other guitars.
So I am very confused as this never happened to me.
Need some help and advice please!!
Thanks for reading the long post and thanks in advance!
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