Jeremy Morton Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Hi There Livemusic, My name is Jeremy Morton. I am a Product Specialist at Gibson Acoustic in Montana. Hopefully I can help you a little with your issues with the 5 pin cable. The cable has a little button on it that you depress with your thumb. There is a groove in the end pin jack that should be pointing upwards while the the guitar is in playing postion. If you orient the button under your thumb and have your thumb on top of the cable that should line things up fairly close. I hope that you find this helps, If not let me know and i will do my best to be of further assistance. All the best Jeremy Morton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroAussie Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Nice one Jeremy, great to see some input from a Gibson product specialist ! Would be good to have further contributions from the company reps on this forum. Hi There Livemusic, My name is Jeremy Morton. I am a Product Specialist at Gibson Acoustic in Montana. Hopefully I can help you a little with your issues with the 5 pin cable. The cable has a little button on it that you depress with your thumb. There is a groove in the end pin jack that should be pointing upwards while the the guitar is in playing postion. If you orient the button under your thumb and have your thumb on top of the cable that should line things up fairly close. I hope that you find this helps, If not let me know and i will do my best to be of further assistance. All the best Jeremy Morton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigKahune Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 . Bravo . . . B) Welcome Jeremy. And thanks for taking the time to post. And with a pic too. A + for you ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57classic Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Very helpful Jeremy, thanks for some concrete input. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brians356 Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 BigKahune, I honestly never realized there was a "reputation" feature on this Forum, which says more about me (and my brain) than I like to admit. But since you pointed it out (thanks!), my previous posts here are at +3 (green), so I'm not quite sure what you're seeing. Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigKahune Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 BigKahune, I honestly never realized there was a "reputation" feature on this Forum, which says more about me (and my brain) than I like to admit. But since you pointed it out (thanks!), my previous posts here are at +3 (green), so I'm not quite sure what you're seeing. Brian I was a bit hard on you. . . I'm seeing a lot. But that's okay. You don't fully understand how the feature works so we'll cut you some slack. Actually, there's a question about the feature on the first page of this thread. The feature provides a way of checking the consensus on a member. . . "+"'s have been added to your comment above. The "+"s and "-"s add on to your reputation, a point at a time. The number on your comment isn't your reputation number. It's more like people's thumbs up or thumbs down on that particular comment. You very rarely see more than one or two "+"s or "-"s on any one comment, and only the mods can see who is clicking in the "+"s and "-"s. Now, to see your reputation status, if you click your name on the header of any of your posts it takes you (or anyone else) to your profile page where you'll see your reputation points listed. The other day when I looked at yours (to see what people thought about your comments in general), you were at -1 reputation. That's a running total of all the points on all your comments. Now you've gotten +3 on your comment above (wow) and I just looked at your reputation again, you're at +1 reputation. That's good. Your reputation is now in positive territory. So, I did a strike through on my comment above (post #47). B) . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brians356 Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 All I do is call 'em as I see 'em, and "speak truth to power." Imagine someone was browsing this forum and saw a thread subject "Sloppy engineering, Jackson Browne Model A." They may not feel compelled to read any further, and might reasonably assume the model had problems, and that Gibson was putting out shoddy products. I'm not a shill for Gibson, but given the actual "problem" reported by the owner, I feel strongly that this thread's subject is grossly misleading, is unfair to Gibson (this is their board), and says more about the owner of the guitar than about the guitar itself. Agree or disagree, I am the world's foremost expert on my own opinion. Reputation? Never have concerned myself much with popularity contests. As to who's supposed to benefit from such a rating system, beats me. Presumably a lurker can draw some conclusion about the veracity of a particular post from the author's "reputation?" Hmmm ... I better shut up now. Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrorod Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Nice one Jeremy, great to see some input from a Gibson product specialist ! Would be good to have further contributions from the company reps on this forum. +1 on that! I have followed this situation from a distance. It is good to finally see a picture of the afore-mentioned 5 pin plug! From what I see :unsure: ....it does look like a 'PITA' to 'locate'. I blame that on the pickup design/manufacturer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaster Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 Seems like a simple enough thing to adapt to. I've got a question though, does this 5 pin connector have a "break away" feature in the event the player makes a sudden move. I'd hate to think that by accident you could break a section of the tailpin area off of the guitar. Often you see archtops that have their input jack plates refabricated to cover damage to the area for the same reasons. I recall my cousin borrowing a neighbor's shiny new Asian made guitar back around 1965, Surf Music was popular and guitars got a workout. This guitar was a Fender Strat type clone, but it didn't have the recessed input jack plate, instead the input jack was anchored directly into the brittle and thin single ply pickguard. Whilst jumping around he stretched out the guitar cord, which was of course at a 90 degree angle and a large section of the pickguard broke off pulling wiring, pots, caps and other important stuff out the front of the guitar. It took quite a while to repair the damage, and if I recall the guitar actually sounded a lot better with it's new built in fuzz tone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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