Is it only me...

[Bob Faulkner]

The jack on my Smith has always had a little play in it. If I put sideways pressure on a straight plug that is plugged in then it will lose connection in the jack and cause my output to drop out. It's done that since the day I bought it, and I assume is just a property of the type of jack. I can live with it because the issue only comes up when there is significant direct lateral pressure on the jack (such as the plug hitting my thigh causing the jack to carry the weight of the bass) and outside of that situation, it's rock solid. I got around the issue with a 90-degree angled plug. Using such a plug, I've never had any problems.