Ever experience this? This is all for a 7 string. I put a hotrails minihumbucker in the bridge of my 7 string, and standard SD Strat in the middle and a JB Jr in the neck. The SD wiring diagram for this doesn't show a ground between the pots, so I didn't do that. I wired this to split the coils.
My assessment that follow is based on recording the dry signal and using Helix Native to compare tones and volumes so I'm not imagining this!
For the bridge, when splitting the coil, the single coil sounded almost exactly like the neck pup in terms of tone, incl the same volume level. When splitting the neck coil, there was no difference in sound or vol so that didn't seem to be working.
After adding the ground, everything works as expected, with the caveat that when the coils are split, the volume is nearly the same as for the full mini humbucker sound.
Does this make sense, that a missing ground can have that level of effect on the tone? Of course I had a hum, as expected, which the ground fixed.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this!
My assessment that follow is based on recording the dry signal and using Helix Native to compare tones and volumes so I'm not imagining this!
For the bridge, when splitting the coil, the single coil sounded almost exactly like the neck pup in terms of tone, incl the same volume level. When splitting the neck coil, there was no difference in sound or vol so that didn't seem to be working.
After adding the ground, everything works as expected, with the caveat that when the coils are split, the volume is nearly the same as for the full mini humbucker sound.
Does this make sense, that a missing ground can have that level of effect on the tone? Of course I had a hum, as expected, which the ground fixed.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this!
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