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Guitarfreak 22 May 2010

I am not new to pickup wiring, nor am I new to modding, which is why I am puzzled by this. I've had some Seymour Duncan pickups laying unused in the bottom of my drawer for the last year or so and tonight I put them into my guitar once again. The bridge pickup sounds bangin, but the neck pickup sounds quiet and a tad phasey. At first glance one would think that I've wired the coils out of phase with eachother, but that is impossible. I've got the positive to the first lug, both coil cuts are wired together and the negative and ground wire are soldered to back of pot. No wires are touching eachother and the pot wiring itself appears to be fine. I have no idea. I am an open book, let me know what your take is.

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Guitarfreak Mon, 05/24/2010 - 10:06

Boswell, post: 348677 wrote: You could try playing the guitar while standing E-W, or you could see what happens if you wire one of the neck pickup coils in the other polarity.

Thanks Boswell. Could you explain the logic behind playing it standing, and what do you mean by E-W? The second part is good advice, I did this yesterday and found that when I switched the hot lead and that coil's other lead that the pickup got far quieter and almost cancelled the whole thing. It is now back to standard wiring and I replaced some other wires in there as well and cleaned up my volume mods. It seems to sound less phasey now, but the volume difference is still quite large between the two pickups.

Here, listen to this. First is neck.
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=9186263

Boswell Tue, 05/25/2010 - 02:45

Guitarfreak, post: 348680 wrote: Thanks Boswell. Could you explain the logic behind playing it standing, and what do you mean by E-W?

Logic? I suppose it was more orthogonality. If you wired your pickup coils North to South and then stood facing East-West, you might just cancel out the signal altogether. Sorry.

The first sound clip is more to my taste, and that's the neck pickup?

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