Active bass wiring help!
I have a Schecter Custom 5 that recently started making static and loud speaker pop when I wiggle the wire in the jack. This bass has active pickups and I have dissected it and found the problem is definitely the jack, dirty contacts and they were not tight to the 1/4 guitar cable. Since it is active there are three wires running to it, on three separate lugs, but when you plug in a 1/4 wire it makes contact from the battey and the negative lug activating the circut (the tip of the 1/4 jack only has one contact). I'm trying to clean the jack up but a new one would be best.
My question is, is this just a standard 1/4 stereo jack wired for a two contact active setup or do I need to find a special active jack. Shecter does not sell bass parts so I will be ordering from StewMac any help would be appreciated.
TLDR: What kind of jack does an active bass use?
Posted Aug 12, 2015, 4:54 PM UTC