Hi there ,
first time here and I'd like to ask your help . I bought a very nice P6E white , Event series electroacoustic from a friend , but unfortunatelly the Fishman hum-canceling neck pickup plus Acoustic Matrix undersaddle system doesn't work . My friend ensured me that he didn't touch anything but some day suddenly it just stoped working .
Of course the first thing I did is to replace the 9V battery but nothing happened .
Any idea ?
Is there any manual , flyer or instruction for that Fishman Pickup System exclusively designed for Parker ?
thanks for your time
Parker P6E Event series , Fishman system problem
Re: Parker P6E Event series , Fishman system problem
Welcome, @fuzz63. Sorry to read of your issue - It certainly has the potential to be a frustrating diagnosis; due to how the components appear to be installed in the body of the guitar.
Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any literature specific to the USM Parker acoustics having been produced which has found its way here, aside from the dealer catalogs showing the different models for those years they were in production. If you reach out to Fishman tech support, Derek Alves will likely pull whatever documentation he can find in the archives and begin troubleshooting it with you (he did this for me when I had specific questions about their Powerchip preamp signal path which had come up in a thread here).
Without having the guitar in front of me, your friend's story and the fact that you have no signal whatsoever after a battery change leads me to suspect a simple failure in a weak link in the latter part of the signal chain between the preamp and output jack (such as a jack connection break or short). Given there's a lot of wire running from the upper bout where the preamp is mounted to the end pin area where the 1/4" and XLR jacks are, I'm hoping the culprit ends up being something obvious once you're able to get a look under the hood (such as the nut for the 1/4" jack having worked loose enough to spin and cause either the lead, ground, or battery-negative wire grounding at the jack via the switching lug to break off).
Please update us with whatever you move forward with - There's certain to be other Event series acoustic owners who experience the same problem.
Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any literature specific to the USM Parker acoustics having been produced which has found its way here, aside from the dealer catalogs showing the different models for those years they were in production. If you reach out to Fishman tech support, Derek Alves will likely pull whatever documentation he can find in the archives and begin troubleshooting it with you (he did this for me when I had specific questions about their Powerchip preamp signal path which had come up in a thread here).
Without having the guitar in front of me, your friend's story and the fact that you have no signal whatsoever after a battery change leads me to suspect a simple failure in a weak link in the latter part of the signal chain between the preamp and output jack (such as a jack connection break or short). Given there's a lot of wire running from the upper bout where the preamp is mounted to the end pin area where the 1/4" and XLR jacks are, I'm hoping the culprit ends up being something obvious once you're able to get a look under the hood (such as the nut for the 1/4" jack having worked loose enough to spin and cause either the lead, ground, or battery-negative wire grounding at the jack via the switching lug to break off).
Please update us with whatever you move forward with - There's certain to be other Event series acoustic owners who experience the same problem.
Summary of the Parker Guitars speculator market from 2020 onward: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory