Actually I have been completely flummoxed by this probelm. I cannot get my potentiometers to work at all!!! I no longer an convinced it is a problem only with my caps. I am certainly no pro at this but i have rewired a couple of my own guitars in the past with no trouble.
Here is my setup...
Tele with custom 5 in bridge, alnico pro 2 in neck (w/chrome cover)
I have the bucker routed to on/off/on toggle to get n.coil/Both/s.coil
I have the single coil routed to push/pull to switch in /out of phase
Both of these functions work PERFECTLY
I have a ground running from under my bridge and also 2 others--> one from a lug in the neck pickup cavity and the other to a lug in the wiring rout. These are all soldered together. Obviously the ground from my jack is directly soldered to this also, and from the wiring rout lug I ran a ground to the bottom of my volume pot (not a push/pull --> I have that for the tone).
I am using a T model megaswitch hooked up exactly as it instructs (checked a zillion times). My pickup switching also works flawlessly.
What doesn't work is my tone and volume controls. The volume is basically an on/off switch as is, having almost no taper at all (it is 500k). When turned below "8" it cuts out entirely. As for the tone control, I cant even really tell if it works at all. Sometimes I think i hear it kind of rolling off the highs.
Since originally writing this I have replaced both pots and tried caps of almost every concievable value. I have tried grounding the neck pickup cover. I have even completely gone back to bare bones with no switching at all and i STILL can't get any of the pots I tried to work. I have even tried not soldering the last new ones I put in (taped temporarily instead) jsut to see if I was overheating them. No luck.
I must be doing something fundamentally wrong here. I have followed the shemes to the letter and checked 100000 times. And anyway just to see i have also tried every other concievable combination too!!! My hot from the jack is running to the middle lug (sweeper) of my volume pot. The bottom lug goes to the tone control and also to the hot from the pickup selector. The other lug on the volume pot goes to ground. The sweeper from my middle tone pot goes to capacitor, other end of cap to ground. I tried reversing the outside lugs on the pots in case I had them backewards bu no luck.
PLEASE HELP ME!!!!
I have stayed up all night for 4 days trying to get this to work!!!!!!
pLEASE if you can help reply to this post or email me @ [email protected] !!!
I need you guys!!!
Here is my setup...
Tele with custom 5 in bridge, alnico pro 2 in neck (w/chrome cover)
I have the bucker routed to on/off/on toggle to get n.coil/Both/s.coil
I have the single coil routed to push/pull to switch in /out of phase
Both of these functions work PERFECTLY
I have a ground running from under my bridge and also 2 others--> one from a lug in the neck pickup cavity and the other to a lug in the wiring rout. These are all soldered together. Obviously the ground from my jack is directly soldered to this also, and from the wiring rout lug I ran a ground to the bottom of my volume pot (not a push/pull --> I have that for the tone).
I am using a T model megaswitch hooked up exactly as it instructs (checked a zillion times). My pickup switching also works flawlessly.
What doesn't work is my tone and volume controls. The volume is basically an on/off switch as is, having almost no taper at all (it is 500k). When turned below "8" it cuts out entirely. As for the tone control, I cant even really tell if it works at all. Sometimes I think i hear it kind of rolling off the highs.
Since originally writing this I have replaced both pots and tried caps of almost every concievable value. I have tried grounding the neck pickup cover. I have even completely gone back to bare bones with no switching at all and i STILL can't get any of the pots I tried to work. I have even tried not soldering the last new ones I put in (taped temporarily instead) jsut to see if I was overheating them. No luck.
I must be doing something fundamentally wrong here. I have followed the shemes to the letter and checked 100000 times. And anyway just to see i have also tried every other concievable combination too!!! My hot from the jack is running to the middle lug (sweeper) of my volume pot. The bottom lug goes to the tone control and also to the hot from the pickup selector. The other lug on the volume pot goes to ground. The sweeper from my middle tone pot goes to capacitor, other end of cap to ground. I tried reversing the outside lugs on the pots in case I had them backewards bu no luck.
PLEASE HELP ME!!!!
I have stayed up all night for 4 days trying to get this to work!!!!!!
pLEASE if you can help reply to this post or email me @ [email protected] !!!
I need you guys!!!
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