Woolliar

Hi Mofostone; have had this problem myslef but on a Variax Bass. Sounds like you use 1/4 inch jack to plug into an amp (using on board battery power to run the guitar's electronics)? If so check the Variax Cable input to your guitar. You should see a row of copper/Bronze coloured wires. There should be 8 of these. Check that they are all nicely aligned, NOT bent around, touching or depressed out of position. If they are then this is very likely to be your problem. This damage can be caused by accidentally inserting a 1/4 inch jack into the variax socket when hooking up. Very easy to do, especially in the dark on a stage, and so much so that Variax issued a plug to cover this socket when not in use but I always loose mine and don't know where to buy new ones. I had this problem with my bass and managed to fix it by crafting a safety pin into a small hook which I gently inserted into the variax socket to rearrange the pins. My bass then worked AOK although I had to reflash the settings on it to get all the tone model selections back. Hope this helps your situation. Can send pics of jack and sfety pin tool if they're needed. Back to driving my better half nuts with the bass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cheers, Crisisurfer