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Old March 11th, 2008, 10:46 AM   #449 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by specialty guitars View Post
Not an error. When you plug your guitar in, it's resistance to ground takes the place of that grounding resistor. Gibson factored that in. As long as you are using a guitar, you're fine. If you plug in a mic for harmonica, it can cause big trouble with runaway gain.
What Gibson didn't factor in is new fangled stuff like effects pedals and tuners etc that all expect and work best with a 1M impedance.
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