you guys know the deal, I put my cable into the input jack of my GK700rb head and it pops and crackles. it is not the cable. this has got to be an easy fix. anyone fixed this themselves?
matt
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GK700tb input issue, need help
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sorry guys, dont have time or attention span to read 800 google threads on the gk700. if someone could just comment on my post, it would be appreciated. its what a forum is for isnt it? thx
What happens if you put it in but not quite all the way, i.e. about 1 mm away from fully-seated? If the problem goes away, you might have only a spring contact that's lost its tension, and you might be able to recover it by going in there (through the jack opening) with a bent coat hanger or something, and pulling on the spring contact to bend it so you get more tension out of it. CAREFULLY!
If that's not the problem, maybe there's a cold/broken solder joint at the jack, assuming it's PCB-mounted. And I could be wrong on that last point; I've never been inside a 700.
Phone jacks do have a "max # of insertions" spec. Also there are cheap jacks and good ones. Some of the offshore knock-offs don't hold up all that great. I have no idea what the 700 uses.
Sorry I cant do better than guess at the problem.
If that's not the problem, maybe there's a cold/broken solder joint at the jack, assuming it's PCB-mounted. And I could be wrong on that last point; I've never been inside a 700.
Phone jacks do have a "max # of insertions" spec. Also there are cheap jacks and good ones. Some of the offshore knock-offs don't hold up all that great. I have no idea what the 700 uses.
Sorry I cant do better than guess at the problem.
May I suggest that the OP take the unit to a tech before he makes a cheap repair into an expensive one!
