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That what I was thinking,, that a guitar tech should be able to diagnose the problem but I think you're right about getting a second opinion.

Hmm... This is an odd one indeed. If a guitar tech can't find the problem with the instrument on his workbench, what hope have we..? That being said, there are many potential, albeit rare, reasons for no, or little, volume. The jack socket has been eliminated, but, as we go deeper into the signal chain, we could suspect an issue with the internal wiring, a badly-soldered joint to the potentiometers, a faulty component (tone capacitor..?), dust, dirt or worse in the volume pots, duff contacts on the selector switch and, lastly but least likely, both pick-ups having broken or shorted coil windings. These guitars are not rocket surgery, but are slightly more difficult to work on, as access to the cabling etc is poor. However, any decent guitar tech should be able to at least determine the cause, with a few fairly basic tests. I'd recommend going to another technician for a second opinion; to me, the best 'guess' would be the selector switch being stuck. Hope this helps.

Good evening, @DecepticonVibez, and ... ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

A bit of a strange one this guys. I'm hoping someone can help. I bought an Epiphone Sheraton 150th Anniversary approximately two yyears ago. I had it professionally set up and since then I haven't touched it. It has been sat in it's case for two years. A few wweks ago I decided to get it out and have a jam. When I plugged it in there was no or very little sound coming out, even though the amp was turned up fully. After checking all the obvious things like cables I couldn't work it out. I decided to take it to a guitar tech to get repaired. The guitar tech has looked at it and can't work out what the problem is either. He has checked it all over and even changed the output jack but still there is no volume coming from the guitar. He has advised me to change the harness. He has never come across this problem before. As you can imagine I'm a bit annoyed as the guitar was pretty expensive for an Epiphone and it is supposed to have top quality electronics and Gibson mini humbuckers. I have contacted Epiphone and waiting for a response. Does anyone have an idea what the problem could be?

Hi Guys I'm a 42 year old male from England that has always loved guitars, even though I can't really play them. I suppose what I like would be classed as classic rock. I love all sorts of different bands from the 60's up until the 90's. I have joined this forum to get some help and learn more about guitars.

I was going to ask about the Katana, but I've just seen your ad on BC, so that answers that question.

My new rig Orange Super Crush 100 This has surprised me how good it sounds both clean and dirty 12” Celestion Redback 150w speaker loaded and all solid state so only 18kg weight

I share this backing track by John Scofield, medium swing with quite a few scales, but most of them belong to the same key. I hope you enjoy it and find it useful for studying.

Hey Kiwi, I found the California to be a great pedal which added a lot of depth to the high gain mesa head, but I did find that on the base adjustment seemed to suddenly jump, I tried it right down with the base up on the head unit and mainly use it to add a smother mid tone instead for lead work. I used to had a Hammett signature Randall amp which it worked really well with that ! recently I have moved away from physical pedals and been playing with a digital sims at home just for something different, but you can't beat proper pedals !!

Mine has been on Reverb for a while. The ex Lindisfarne one.

How are you finding the California, I have a full Mesa set up now and the California sounded pretty dark even after I dialled back the bass. Did you find a way to brighten it up?

It's fun to make arrangements of 80's songs. They have something in them, maybe it's just nostalgy. Cheers, Mikko Video Tabs

I have had one of these too when I was playing in my rockabilly band. I tend to prefer a blackface sound so moved it on after the band stopped. But I was also very impressed by the tone (and the weight), plus the fact that it gave a pretty good output into the PA too so no need to mic.

I tried one of those Roland a few months back, I gotta see I was impressed : https://thmn.to/thoprod/379467?offid=1&affid=1771

HA I looked at this topic and had to have a look at this BC RICH beauty ! https://thmn.to/thoprod/512794?offid=1&affid=1771 damn...

Backing track of this great song by Kurt Rosenwinkel. I hope you enjoy it

Evening all. I’m building a small stereo guitar rig based on a Carlsbro GLX80, Harley Benton GPA100 and Mesa Thiele that i have lying around. I didn’t have any stereo pedals so have picked up a TC Corona and a Flashback to do the stereo effects. I’m looking for some others input as to what is good but not too pricey set of cables. Normally i build my own using Van Damme and Neutrik, but for this i can’t be arsed to make them mainly due to time constraints. So, any experience of what you’ve been using and are happy with would be useful to know.

Practise and flux. My soldering skills were definitely sub obtimal until I decided to build an amplifier. I bought a decent iron, solder and station, a third hand tool and a tub of flux. Lots of pre tinning of wires and components. It was a whole lot of soldering. Now I think I’m pretty OK at it.

Any suggestions. I will not attempt to solder anymore. Crazy glued a deathbucker into my epi explorer. It still works but no other attempts have been successful. Ive had a super distortion sitting silently in an old ibanez for 4 yrs. Is there a remedy for this. I would be too embarrassed to take it to a shop and have it done at this point.

66 Gibson sg along with 70's silver face twin

What would be the "wonkiest" or "most interesting" band you can imagine if you hand picked the band members. Have as many as you like.

Or Robert weir

Or Robert palmer

Now that would get the building condemned. What are 2 things that Jerry Lee Lewis, Jerry Falwell and mickey gilley have in common?