I had a show about 2 weeks ago and that was the first time i plugged my Guild Peregrine direct into my Sansamp active D.I. without any guitar amp and straight to the mixer of the house. The distance between the house mixer and my D.I. was at least 30-40 metres away. To my dismay, the signal of my Peregrine was extremely weak and there was this obvious bad intermittent distortion in the tone of my guitar.
I was lucky to have brought my Yamaha silent guitar as a backup.
Does anyone know what went wrong, or have any similar experience?
Here's what i found on one of the Harmony Central reviews:
"The guitar is equipped with 10,000 oam pots as oppossed to the 20,000 oam pots Fishman recommended with the pickup. Because of the electronics unique design no one makes the pots it needs. Guild did not find it worthwhile to contract with someone to make the appropriate pots so they used the 10k pots that were available. Technically the 10k pots work but the signal from the guitar is weak. As a result I can reach enough volume through my amp. I don't like turning the gain up to much to reach the appropriate volume levels because of distortion. This is really the only thing I don't like about the guitar, everything else is great."
"Guild won't have anything to do with the preamp problem. They claim the only people to complain has been me and the two band members from Vertical Horizon that own Peregrine's They claim the 10k pots work (technically) and won't fix it because not worth their time and trouble to have the parts made available."
I was lucky to have brought my Yamaha silent guitar as a backup.
Does anyone know what went wrong, or have any similar experience?
Here's what i found on one of the Harmony Central reviews:
"The guitar is equipped with 10,000 oam pots as oppossed to the 20,000 oam pots Fishman recommended with the pickup. Because of the electronics unique design no one makes the pots it needs. Guild did not find it worthwhile to contract with someone to make the appropriate pots so they used the 10k pots that were available. Technically the 10k pots work but the signal from the guitar is weak. As a result I can reach enough volume through my amp. I don't like turning the gain up to much to reach the appropriate volume levels because of distortion. This is really the only thing I don't like about the guitar, everything else is great."
"Guild won't have anything to do with the preamp problem. They claim the only people to complain has been me and the two band members from Vertical Horizon that own Peregrine's They claim the 10k pots work (technically) and won't fix it because not worth their time and trouble to have the parts made available."