The problems at Phil and Janet's' celebration 'do' pretty much confirmed our fears... Jimmy's treasured guitar would have to go back to Fender GBI (Taylor's authorised repairers). That made 3 gigs in a row where we'd experienced problems - Blackpool (where we managed to play through the gig with some crackles and pops), and Cramlington where we ended up mic-ing the guitar. We'd all but convinced ourselves that it must be a cable problem as there was no problem at home through our super-sensitive Bose L1 system, so we invested in some cables to always carry as spares from then on. So when things sounded real ugly through a different Bose L1 setup, even with swapping various cables, we were devastated.
So back home we plugged into our Bose system and we noticed that even with the Taylor-supplied balanced cable there was noise present, although nowhere near as bad. So we plugged into our system with a good quality guitar lead and whoof! - the noise was awful... crackle, scratch, pop, zap... so we had to switch off the sound system and isolate the culprit. We tried every possible combination of every cable with all of our Taylor guitars... and only one guitar had problems, and much more noticeable with the standard unbalanced guitar leads that you'll find in use anywhere and everywhere... oh woe!
In desperation we contacted Taylor, and told them of our plight. They kindly requested the serial number so that they could then ask Fender to fast-track it for us. And so we went into Newcastle and dropped the guitar off at Guitar Guitar. Frustration and depression are descending.
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