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Is it stuck in tuner mode perhaps.

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I strongly suggest you leave your preamp alone and instead construct an additional preamp for the piezo pickup. It will need to be a very high input impedance - more than 1 meg ohm but the sensitivity doesn't need to be high as the output of a piezo cartridge is typically 500 mv to 1100 mv, almost enough to produce a usable output from the amplifier directly into the line in... The gain of the piezo preamp need not be great, merely enough to provide enough drive to match the line input, but it should provide RIAA correction - google will find plenty of active and passive circuits for this. The current required for such a simple circuit is so small battery power would be a good choice for simplicity as it will simplify screening and cut hum and other interference to a minimum.

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You have several options: 1. Do nothing and live with the occasional problem. 2. Check your guitar cable and the battery connections for loose or intermittent connections/noise. Try to see if it's the amp responsible for the noise....ie, Is it caused by vibrations, or maybe static....especially in winter when it's dry. Your home power may have noise on the line, so borrow or rent a power conditioner which filters out noise. If that fails, go to 3. 3. Bite the bullet and pay a competent guitar tech/luthier to repair it. Most of these issues are due to loose/faulty connections. Should be less than an hour. Hey....It's a Martin. 3a. Pay a guitar tech to loosen the end pin connector so you can see if you can repair it yourself.

You may have the tuner too far away from the guitar or the batteries may be going flat. Check to make sure that there is nothing blocking the microphone hole and that there is no other noises in the area which could be affecting what the tuner is hearing

can you tell if there is a wire broken? if you know how to use a vom meter you can check to see if you have continuity if you don't then you have a wire problem & make sure that your battery is good.

Either the speakers have loosened from the faceplate, or one or more have blown. Open the amp and tighten them down. If that doesn't fix it, remove them a take them to the nearest speaker repair shop for a checkup. If blown either have them re-coned or replace them.

Assuming there isn't an instrument plugged into it when it's humming, it will be time to have it recapped,

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It´s defect, so you have to use your warranty. It´s nonfixable. I´m sorry.

That light is showing that there is power to amp in that speaker but there is something wrong with the amp or the speaker inside and nothing is coming out. You will have to troubleshoot the amp and check the resistance of the speaker to see what the problem is.

I would suggest reading the manuals, that will give you a lot more information then what you are giving us.

It sounds like the cord has gotten some stress at some point and damaged the wire inside. Start at one end with your fingers (while on) bending it back and forth, and work your way down the wire until you affect it, that should locate the bad spot. The only fix then, is to cut the wire, peel back the outside coating and remove the bad spot and put back together with black tape. (Or heat shrink tubing would be a better and much neater job) There should only be 2 wires inside the coating, it may have 2 inside the shielding (outside braid that goes around everything) This outside wire should be connected to ground to keep out static noise.

There are only a few things that could be responsible for your problem. Dirty volume knob on guitar or amp. Faulty ground on all affected parts; including cables. I suggest you plug into a different amp with a new chord, and see if the problem still exists. This way you can quickly eliminate compnents & focus on the actua lproblematic one. If it still exists..you can assume it'sin the pick-up.

Did you solder the wires to your plug well?Did you place the pickup as in the manual?Did you connect it to the preamp?Usually the pickups for acoustic guitar need preamps to work with guitar amplifiers because the signal they produce is low.