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How to handle guitar jack-in problems?
my guitar is the lowest-priced Epiphone model of the Gibson (Les Paul 100, which has a body pretty much just like model 100, only thinner and without a rim as its most noticeable missing parts) and it’s around 3 – 5 months old.
The jack-in hole got a bit loose that month and its small components that hold the jack in went out of the hole. I put it back (i mean they’re pretty much just the tube and the rims, the rims fell but the tube was there).
A week ago my guitar’s jack-in hole went completely dead. I tried with everyone’s jack in cable but it still just made noise. In the end, since I needed the thing tomorrow, I lent it to a friend who lived near a music store (or whatever you call those) and got it to get repaired again.
The following day it did work but it still died if I turned the plug around a bit.
Are there any tips to make sure it’s on no matter what I do to the jack in cable? Or is there a DIY jack-in box repair tutorial?
Well thanks to Windows update I have to retype this whole frickin answer…but anyways.
The wires at your input jack are lose, you most likely need to re-solder them.
Just disconnect the faceplate, locate the 2 wires, disconnect them (make sure you remember which one goes where), cut them back about a 1/4″, strip them so about 1/8″ of bare wire is showing, wrap the end around the terminals and solder them. Shouldn’t take more than 20 minutes.
You’ll need a Phillips screwdriver, a soldering iron, and some electrical grade solder.
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