I thought I had it figured out, but no such luck. The Hot tubes side by itself is doing fine, but the Crayon side seems to be the culprit. It’s going out mid song constantly. I have relatively low output Mojotone 59 clone pickups in this guitar, so it doesn’t seem like I should be causing some kind of clipping, but I’m no tech guru. In hindsight, this happened to me during a show not too long ago as well, but it wasn’t obvious at the time that this is what had happened. So I don’t think the pickup change is to blame either way.

Possibly, but it may be too early to be sure. In my case, I was running off a SHURE GLXD-D6 wireless. It just “feels” like my Hot Wax is getting overloaded, which may or may not be in any way accurate. But with that in mind, I turned the output gain from my wireless down from 0 to like -5 dB. I have not had the sound cut out a single time yet since I did that. I had emailed info@ehx.com and got a quick reply with their willingness to repair and several questions from a product engineer. I am holding off for now though while I give it some more play testing.

I think there could also be a pedal order component to this. I’m kind of new to putting together pedal boards, so I haven’t paid much attention to impedances and things, and it looks to me like the Hot wax has input and output impedances (220 ohm in, 2.2M Ohm out) that are kind of unusual. I’m not knowledgeable enough to know exactly how that plays into this, but I suspect there’s something to it. I’m still working up this angle though.

**Update**

I have not had any problems at all since tweaking my pedal order (I got rid of Wampler Pinnacle Deluxe that I had in front of the Hot Wax) and adding a buffer at the start of my chain. so hard to exactly what the cause was, but it seems to be with the interplay with other pedals.

On second thought, the other thing I did was lower the output setting of my wireless unit. Perhaps that was the more impactful adjustment. If you are running a wireless with that otion, give it a try. Otherwise, maybe see if a pickup height adjustment helps. I have had another distortion pedal that was sensitive to that as well.