jhart2021

Thanks. Yes, I've done all of the above with no success. It's very unfortunate. I still have to try a balanced cable.

I have the bean shaped Podxt. So as far as I know there is no pad switch. I however changed the input and output settings, but that did not solve the problem. I use an unbalanced cable. The manual states that my pod has an unbalanced input. Unless you think it might make a difference? I'll need to get a balanced jack to jack cable then. Someone suggested that I use a pedal and set it to bypass. This worked for a little while, but it then started fading until it was dead quiet again. I know this sounds like an impossible scenario, but it it is true. My head aches trying to figure out what might be causing this.

Hi all I hope you can help me. I bought a used Bass Pod XT this past weekend. It seems to work fine when my Bass Guitar's pickups are set to passive. I need to pull the volume knob up the set it to passive. When I push the volume knob in it activates the Active EQ (Bass & Treble). That is where my trouble starts. When the Active EQ is enabled there is no sound going in or coming out. It I crank the Volume and Channel Volume to full blast then I hear a very soft bass tone that sounds flanged. I then pull out the cable from the Pod and insert it immediately in my amp and my Bass Guitar works 100%. On passive and active. I then connected my Bass Guitar to a pre-amp and then the pod had sound on both settings - active and passive. I plug my Bass Guitar back in to the Pod directly and it's dead when set to Active, but will play when the passive is selected. I have tried a gazillion different cables and nothing worked. I fidgeted with the input jack socket, but nothing. I wonder if my actives don't interfere or conflicts with something and encounters resistance? It may be that my guitar sends a signal that the pod doesn't want or some form of signal is transmitted to my guitar that makes it go silent? The day before I bought my Pod XT (with the LCD screen) I played on the First Gen Bass Bod with the red LED numbering lights. There it all worked fine when I was in active. I have never encountered a problem like this. And yes, the battery is brand new, and I even tried old batteries. I did everything I could think of to try before I came here. It is specifically only a problem when I plug my Bass Guitar directly into the Pod XT and have the Active EQ enabled. Has anyone here ever came across this situation? I would greatly appreciate any advise. The Pod that I bought was hardly used. And it works perfectly fine with any other guitar. My Bass Guitar is a 1991 Warwick 6 String Thumb Bass NT with Bartolini Pickups.