Wow. I think you nailed my problem right on the head. My amp remote and perm power leads are miswired, though not at the cars harness.

The "rewiring" I did to my setup was done after the installer I took my unit to pulled too hard on the wiring attached to the docking sleave and ripped some wires out of the connectors. He then replaced the connectors and put it all back together but it looks like he reversed the wires in pins 1 and 2. In frustration with his crafstmenship I decided to solder up the connector to prevent this from happening again - in doing that I somehow failed to verify he put everything back in the correct place.

Looks like I'm going to have to take out the soldering iron one more time. Thanks!

The geek in me is now curious as to why the perm power lead on the empeg seems to correctly turn my amp on and off?

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Nick Harland