So I've been lurking on the forum for a couple of months. I finally took the plunge and bought Dave Sharp's Carter Starter from the "For Sale" section. I've had the guitar for a few weeks, I've had a lesson from Steve Lamb and I'm practicing my grips and forward and backward rolls everyday. Last night, I'm using my headphones and playing through my Boss GT8. I break the 3rd string. No prob, Dave tossed an extra set of strings in the box when he sent me the guitar. I break out my winder and put the new string on. Takes a couple minutes and then I turn on the tuner on the GT8 and get the string tuned up. When I hit the G chord, something is wrong -- I mean really wrong. Everything sounds tinny and distorted. I check the G#, it looks okay, it's in the rollers, the string ball is seated like the other strings. I loosen the string, make sure everything is the right place, tighten back up, put the bar on the 3rd fret and hit the G again. Same deal -- tinny, distorted, just bad.
So I send the next 30 minutes checking everything I can think of -- pickup leads, jack, screws on the tuner, so on and so forth. Then I look down at the GT8 and the d*** wah-wah function is turned on... D'OH
I must have changed it from volume to wah when I turned on the tuner. I flip it back to volume and the guitar sounds normal. But I have a few more gray hairs in my beard!
