HELP! Soldered Cables Make Crackling Noise When Moved & Other Issues

[matthornet]

My soldered pancake jack cables are acting up lately. They are Canare GS-4 cables with unlabelled pancake jacks. I use four of them & 2 more Dimarzio cables to connect all the pedals on my board. Once, my entire signal was lost during a sunday morning set & I hurried to find the problem. Power supply was fine & I wiggled one of those soldered cables & my signal went through again. Today, I just plugged in at home & started to play & a new problem... A consistent crackling noise to every chord I played was audible from the amp, checked the cables again & the noise was gone. But now moving the cables made crackling noises too especially when I move them in the jacks of my pedals. However, the Dimarzio cables are quiet when I move them.

Btw I didnt solder them myself, I bought these from a music store some years ago & they did a really clean job inside while the cables & jacks looks high quality to me. I opened them up a while ago to check & they seem fine. Nicely stripped cables connected by clean shiny, undisturbed solder joints. I'm also suspecting my power supply now. I use a 1Spot powering 5 pedals via a MOEN brand daisy chain.

Anyone have any idea what is wrong here? Thanks guys.

 

[Campbelltoe]

It's your pancake jacks. Mine did the same thing.

Buy Switchcraft 228's and resolder and you'll be fine. I had the exact same problem, and redid all mine and it was well with the price. Haven't had one fail on me in 6 months now.