Though it's essential to go through the basic troubleshooting steps as you're doing, I'm afraid the piezo elements typically used in guitar saddles simply aren't made to last; and tend to be binary in function (with any symptoms not resulting from user error indicating element failure and cause for...

Patzag wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 8:43 am Now to that summing board under the bridge...

I took a look last night and all the solder points look solid. Might re do them just to be safe, and if that doesn’t work, call it.

Thanks for having a look!

Attached are some photos of the bridge / saddles

Thanks, I will take a look. Its so hard to tell if the solders on the bottom of the saddles are ok because they are so tiny. might just try to redo them regardless.

Hi All, another piezo post. Just picked up P38 and am getting very low output on the E/A strings, and slightly crackly output on the D string. Things I have tried: New A string, problem persists compressed air on and under saddles, problem persists Lightly sanding the saddles where the string hits t...