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What can be causing a loss of gain on a guitar when you start playing hard? pickups are new, could it be the tone capacitor? The amp is out of question too.

CheersYou're saying that when you start picking harder, you're getting a loss of gain?

This may be a ridiculous guess, but I remember Joe Satriani saying that when his guitar is set up right, the string oscillation compresses instead of buzzing on the frets when he picks hard... perhaps that's the issue here, and hitting harder is compressing string movement, creating less pickup disturbance.

Or probably I'm just crackpot, and something's wrong with the wiring.

Maybe your action is too low. If it is, the strings will vibrate in a wider arc when hit harder, and the lack of clearance (string hitting fret) will stop the rotation - and volume and sustain.

Try raising the action a bit and see if that works.
Allright, thanks for the tips.
Well, the action ain't that low, I like some bending so I keep a bit high.
It just started to break up last week, first I thought it was some bad tube, but then, with other tube amp it's the same, and other guitar rock good.

Has to be some weird thing, I think I'll try to re-wire electronics.
And by the way, with transistor amp that thoesn't happen ( a little CUBE15).
Another problem that I have is that the high E plays like if it has a built-in delay. Moving the PU up and down kinda changes it, but I'd never been able to eliminate it completly.

Cheers