Hi,
Details: I own an ESP, LTD FX-260 that I got as a project guitar. We wired in the SH-2 in the neck, and the SH-6 in the bridge, but we wired it wrong. When the coil tap is active, its actually a humbucker, and inactive it becomes single coil. We figured out that this is because we put a few wires in the wrong places, as the colors did not correspond. The single coil sounds like crap, and with any gain on either mode it sounds like its running through a soft effects filter, although it sounds much stronger on single coil mode. (keep in mind the modes are reversed: pulled out means humbucker and pushed means single coil.)
Problem: My dad insists that we have to re-wire the entire guitar because ESP wires their guitars differently. Is this true? Or can we just swap the wires? I'd really like to keep the cost down so I would rather not get any wires. I've never heard anyone have wiring issues with an ESP guitar, so I think we just have to swap out the colors for what they should be.
Details: I own an ESP, LTD FX-260 that I got as a project guitar. We wired in the SH-2 in the neck, and the SH-6 in the bridge, but we wired it wrong. When the coil tap is active, its actually a humbucker, and inactive it becomes single coil. We figured out that this is because we put a few wires in the wrong places, as the colors did not correspond. The single coil sounds like crap, and with any gain on either mode it sounds like its running through a soft effects filter, although it sounds much stronger on single coil mode. (keep in mind the modes are reversed: pulled out means humbucker and pushed means single coil.)
Problem: My dad insists that we have to re-wire the entire guitar because ESP wires their guitars differently. Is this true? Or can we just swap the wires? I'd really like to keep the cost down so I would rather not get any wires. I've never heard anyone have wiring issues with an ESP guitar, so I think we just have to swap out the colors for what they should be.
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