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Line 6 g50 issue

jeffgnr90

jeffgnr90

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#1
Hey guys so I just played a show tonight and midway through the first song I lost all sound. Upon returning.home I hooked everything up, turns out its my wireless.

It powers up and the receiver registers the packs battery life and signal strength, but when I go to play nothing happens (except for the occasional split second "scratch").

Is this a result of a bad cable or something else? I loved this thing, hoping it's just the cable, I've heard they're not the greatest.
 
#2
I have the G50 and your issue is most likely the cable. The cable that comes with the unit is crap. One of the guitarists in my band has gone through three Line 6 replacement cables. I avoided the problems by just buying the Shure WA-304 cable. I've used it for over two years with no issues. You can find it on amazon or at any of the online music stores.
 
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I replaced the stock cable on my G90 (gtr->xmitter) with an after-market from Besttronics (btpa.com).. which they don't seem to carry anymore.
Great quality cable vs factory!
 
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walterw said:
so? was that the fix?
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Glad you asked! I received the cable super early (thanks Amazon) and literally had 5 minutes to plug it in and try it out. Still got nothing. Am super bummed. I'm gonna give it a more thorough go tomorrow to make sure, but.pretty positive it's not the cable. The.unit just died.on me, kind of. I feel like.it has.something to.do with the input of the transmitter, since the receiver.still seems to pick up the.wireless, except for my signal when I play.
 
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I really did a job on my G50 transmitter...literally ripped the cable, metal receiver socket, and retainer nut right out. To my relief, all 3 components are sacrificial and, with a little patience, were re-inserted and fully functional. The difficulty resides with the metal receiver: it's keyed and has to pass almost fully through the rubber mounting boot to seat correctly. Just enough of the thread will show to accept the retainer nut. In turn, the retainer nut compresses the rubber boot which secures the metal receiver. If the metal receiver is even slightly out of whack, misaligned, whatever, the cable will not make full contact with the pins inside the socket.

...and now the question: is there a chance your cable took a good hit and displaced the assembly as described above?

Riis
 
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hobbes1 said:
I don't like straight plugs.
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Especially with the Relay units as there is much more pressure on the straight plug from the cable pulling down on it.

This may be a totally stupid question, Jeff, but did you make sure the transmitter and reciever are both on the same channel? It's pretty hard to accidently bump the reciever in that way when playing, but it doesn't hurt to check.
 
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Zooberwerx said:
I really did a job on my G50 transmitter...literally ripped the cable, metal receiver socket, and retainer nut right out. To my relief, all 3 components are sacrificial and, with a little patience, were re-inserted and fully functional. The difficulty resides with the metal receiver: it's keyed and has to pass almost fully through the rubber mounting boot to seat correctly. Just enough of the thread will show to accept the retainer nut. In turn, the retainer nut compresses the rubber boot which secures the metal receiver. If the metal receiver is even slightly out of whack, misaligned, whatever, the cable will not make full contact with the pins inside the socket.

...and now the question: is there a chance your cable took a good hit and displaced the assembly as described above?

Riis
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Honestly , it didn't get hit or droppped or anything, which is what's bumming me.out. it was attached to my strap and the thing just stopped receiving the signal from my bass for no reason whatsoever other than it being defective?. But now I'm interested in opening this thing up to see if I have a similar problem..
 
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LiquidMidnight said:
Especially with the Relay units as there is much more pressure on the straight plug from the cable pulling down on it.

This may be a totally stupid question, Jeff, but did you make sure the transmitter and reciever are both on the same channel? It's pretty hard to accidently bump the reciever in that way when playing, but it doesn't hurt to check.
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Not a stupid question at all, that's the kind of thing I would do actually hah. But I've tried every channel just for the heck of it to see if anything happened and still got nothing.
 
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jeffgnr90 said:
Honestly , it didn't get hit or droppped or anything, which is what's bumming me.out. it was attached to my strap and the thing just stopped receiving the signal from my bass for no reason whatsoever other than it being defective?. But now I'm interested in opening this thing up to see if I have a similar problem..
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Oh, I'm quite sure when I damaged mine. Before dis-assembling, Can you snag a pic or two of the assembly? Lateral shots would be best. The fact that the G50 receiver is "seeing" signal or presence of the transmitter is a hopeful sign.

Riis
 
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ooh!

this happened to mine recently; i lost signal and just got noise or nothing, except for my bass player's G50 which blasted through my rig!

turns out the ribbon cable inside the beltpack which connects its antenna to the little board wasn't getting a good connection into the little socket it slides into. carefully opening up the beltpack and re-inserting with a tiny bit of contact cleaner fixed things.

in my case the signal strength lights on the receiver weren't happening either, so this may not be your problem. you say you get the connection strength and battery life bars on the receiver; what about the little input signal lights on both the beltpack and the receiver that are supposed to light up when you actually play?
 
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walterw said:
ooh!

this happened to mine recently; i lost signal and just got noise or nothing, except for my bass player's G50 which blasted through my rig!

turns out the ribbon cable inside the beltpack which connects its antenna to the little board wasn't getting a good connection into the little socket it slides into. carefully opening up the beltpack and re-inserting with a tiny bit of contact cleaner fixed things.

in my case the signal strength lights on the receiver weren't happening either, so this may not be your problem. you say you get the connection strength and battery life bars on the receiver; what about the little input signal lights on both the beltpack and the receiver that are supposed to light up when you actually play?
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The input signals on then transmitter/receiver aren't lighting up.

So it's.possible the ribbon inside might just need to be taken out and reconnected you're saying? What do you.mean by "contact" also?
 

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