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I was playing my schecter semi-hollow (the older with two inputs) and the volume cut off suddely (in the lower of the two inputs). I looked at the back of the guitar and the holder for the battery was open, so I closed it. However, now all I hear is a very light, distorted sound. The higher input works fine.

Any Ideas?

Is the distorted signal coming from the piezo output? If so, just try changing the battery.

The Piezo just makes the distorted noise louder. Tried a new battery, and its the same thing...

Lucky there are two inputs so this isn't a huge disaster.BTW, what are the two inputs exactly?

I was under the impression that one jack was for the magnetic pickups, and the other was the piezo. If this is not the case, I have no clue why there are two.

that would make sense, wouldn't it...

In the higher of the two jacks only the magnetic pickups work, but in the lower the piezo and the magnetics work.

Oh, ok.

You get the noise when you turn up the piezo's level, correct?

Alrighty, I gave things a closer look and here is whats going on...

The peizo is completley nonfunctioning in either input. The input where I am experiencing problems has a light, fuzzy sound that I can only hear when im plugged into my tube amp (there is no noise at all when plugged into my friends fender frontman he left over-here).

The sounds volume is only affected by the magnetic pickups volume knob, the one for the peizo does nothing. Finally, the change in volume is only very small, but the change in amp noise is more noticable.