Confused about Vintage Rails wiring.

[Animal]

Hi, I'm new here. Been reading these boards for a while now. This is my first actual post here.

Anyways. I've got a Vintage Rails pickup that I'm going to install into the middle position of my H-S-H Jackson PS-4 guitar. The shematic for a HSH on the SD homepage shows that with the single coil, in the middle, you should connect the white wire to the pickup switcher and ground the black wire to the volume pot.

The trouble is, my Vintage Rails pickup has a white and a red wire. No blackie. So I'm thinking perhaps the red wire is supposed to be the black wire??? I bought this pickup used off Ebay.

Can anyone please help me here on what the hell is going on?

[Rainmaker]

Re: Confused about Vintage Rails wiring.

Bump

[Animal]

Re: Confused about Vintage Rails wiring.

Bump

Ah, another aussie, i see.

[Rainmaker]

Re: Confused about Vintage Rails wiring.

Yep. Was born in Victoria. Doncaster East was my suburb of residence, back in the day.

Welcome to the forum, btw!

Bee

[Animal]

Re: Confused about Vintage Rails wiring.

Cheers mate.

I live in Ivanhoe which is sort of close to Doncaster. People sure do like to "hang" at westfield shopping town up in Donnie.

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Confused about Vintage Rails wiring.

hey man...I would say just try it and see what happens! I also want to say that I have the same picture of Buzz that you have as an avatar taped to the front of my amp! Im so glad to see at least one more Melvins man here!!!

Welcome

The guy who invented fire

[Animal]

Re: Confused about Vintage Rails wiring.

I also want to say that I have the same picture of Buzz that you have as an avatar taped to the front of my amp! Im so glad to see at least one more Melvins man here!!!

I mostly know who Buzz Obsorne is through my interest in Fantomas and all projects related to Mike Patton. I saw him play with Fantomas/Melvins co-headlining with Tomahawk all on the same nite during early December last year. He puts on a great show. I'm still yet to fully get into The Melvins. They have so many damn albums, I don't know where to start!

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Confused about Vintage Rails wiring.

I mostly know who Buzz Obsorne is through my interest in Fantomas and all projects related to Mike Patton. I saw him play with Fantomas/Melvins co-headlining with Tomahawk all on the same nite during early December last year. He puts on a great show. I'm still yet to fully get into The Melvins. They have so many damn albums, I don't know where to start!

The melvins are hard to get into due to the large amount of materal and the fact that some of it is just noise...drop me a PM and I'll get you on the right track!!!

[tone4days]

Re: Confused about Vintage Rails wiring.

welcome to the board ... i'll toss in a few words that i hope will help ...

.. first ... the easy way ... wire it up and see how it sounds .. if it's crap, reverse the two wires and see if it's better .. if it's not, you got jobbed on fleebay and it aint a genuine duncan VR

good luck
t4d