No Sound from either pickup

[spacelord]

I currently have no sound coming from either of my humbuckers. I have a Jackson DK2M with 2 pickups. I tried another guitar with the cable and it works fine. The guitar always worked fine until about 15 minutes ago.

Now, it may be something I messed up or fried, thats what I'm trying to determine here. Heres how the story goes.. I was unsure that my electric tuner was working OK, so I found a tuning fork.. put it near my pickup and sure enough I had a good solid 'E', which I guess verified my tuner was ok. I did at some point accidentally touch the tuning fork to a pickup a couple of times.. I didn't think much of it. I stepped away from my guitar for a few minutes.. then went back to it and no volume. Well, actually there something BARELY if I crank my amp up all the way.. there is something slight there.

I need a good starting location to start checking. What are the first things to check? voltage over the cap, the volume knob? are my pickups suspect?

I've wired new pickups into other guitars so I've dabled in the electronics before.. but never had to troubleshoot anything in there.

Thanks for any suggestions.

[walterw]

plug the cable in and out, turn all knobs up and down a few times, and vigorously flick the pickup switch back and forth.

it's likely a dirty contact somewhere.

[spacelord]

Everything seems to be fine now. Really strange.. from the time I posted this until I read your response I was messing with it. Amp volume settings, different channels, etc. cables.. in out.. then flicking switches, knobs and stuff after your suggestion.. still just VERY little sound. I have had my amp on and off countless times as I played with the cables.. then for fun, I pulled the cable from the Cube 60 and put that into the SuperChamp XD, flicked the switch and after the amp warmed up.. it works fine..so I plug it back into the Cube 60.. that works now too. I just don't get it...seems strange to me. Oh well.. its all working now.

Thanks for the suggestions.. at least it got me back to look at it one last time before bed so I can sleep better now..

[Kingbeegtrs]

check your grounds. some grounds appear to be solid and aren't...that would be the first thing I would check.