Hey guys...great forum, I just signed up!
Well, I have a Mexican Standard Strat, and I recently bought a H-S-S pickguard, so that I could install a humbucker (the body was prepared for it).
Now It's all wired up, with a 3-way leverswitch and 3 volumes (no tone-cntrl). I have set the height of the two singlecoils (stock Fender) just right, and then adjusted the humbucker (old Ibanez epoxy-potted HB, 12,3Kohms) to match the volumes of the Fender's... All three pickups run through 250K pots.
Clean, it sounds bright, but still just like a normal bridge-HB, but when I hit the distortion-pedal, the HB squeels uncontrollably! I will have to turn my gain-levels about 50 % down to make it stop.
If I install the Ibanez in my Les Paul, with the same amplifier-gain/volume-levels, nothing's wrong. Plays normally... Why doesn't it work in the Strat?
I tried installing a Gibson '57 Classic+ instead of the Ibanez - same problem! What am I doing differently opposed to a standard fat-strat?
Please help?
Well, I have a Mexican Standard Strat, and I recently bought a H-S-S pickguard, so that I could install a humbucker (the body was prepared for it).
Now It's all wired up, with a 3-way leverswitch and 3 volumes (no tone-cntrl). I have set the height of the two singlecoils (stock Fender) just right, and then adjusted the humbucker (old Ibanez epoxy-potted HB, 12,3Kohms) to match the volumes of the Fender's... All three pickups run through 250K pots.
Clean, it sounds bright, but still just like a normal bridge-HB, but when I hit the distortion-pedal, the HB squeels uncontrollably! I will have to turn my gain-levels about 50 % down to make it stop.
If I install the Ibanez in my Les Paul, with the same amplifier-gain/volume-levels, nothing's wrong. Plays normally... Why doesn't it work in the Strat?
I tried installing a Gibson '57 Classic+ instead of the Ibanez - same problem! What am I doing differently opposed to a standard fat-strat?
Please help?
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