Hi all,
First time poster, longtime fan.
I need a little help with troubleshooting an issue I've been having for a while with my flying V.
I was gifted a no name flying V in 2014, it has 2 humbuckers with 2 volume pots and one tone pot. The headstock has no brand markings, the only insight into a possible brand was that it came with two gold epiphone humbuckers. I swapped out both pickups with Seymour Duncans: a screamin demon in the neck position and a dimebucker in bridge position (sh12 and sh13, respectively). I soldered it myself, I'm a competent solderer.
The issue is that the neck pickup doesn't shine through the same way that the bridge pickup does at the same volume setting. It kind of sounds half hearted competitively. The weird part is that if I beat my fist on the body near the jack, the problem will go away, and both pickups shine through brilliantly.
Other things to note:
1. I used the wiring style that the guitar came with, which isn't the same as the wiring Seymour Duncan recommends. I can explain further if you think it would help, but the bottom line is Seymour Duncan said to wire it one way, but the guitar itself came wired differently, so I just swapped the pickups.
2. I replaced all other hardware in the guitar. The pots, three way switch, and the jack are all from guitar freak.
3. I had an electrical engineer resolder everything. He was a coworker and did outstanding work.
Questions:
1. Do you think the issue is that I didn't follow Seymour Duncan's suggested wiring? This seems like the obvious answer to me.
2. Is there a way to be sure that the pickup isn't the issue? I am mostly trying to confirm whether I should buy a new pickup or take it in to be resoldered following the Seymour Duncan schematic.
3. Why do you think me beating on the guitar fixes the issue? I have to do it everytime I pick it up.
First time poster, longtime fan.
I need a little help with troubleshooting an issue I've been having for a while with my flying V.
I was gifted a no name flying V in 2014, it has 2 humbuckers with 2 volume pots and one tone pot. The headstock has no brand markings, the only insight into a possible brand was that it came with two gold epiphone humbuckers. I swapped out both pickups with Seymour Duncans: a screamin demon in the neck position and a dimebucker in bridge position (sh12 and sh13, respectively). I soldered it myself, I'm a competent solderer.
The issue is that the neck pickup doesn't shine through the same way that the bridge pickup does at the same volume setting. It kind of sounds half hearted competitively. The weird part is that if I beat my fist on the body near the jack, the problem will go away, and both pickups shine through brilliantly.
Other things to note:
1. I used the wiring style that the guitar came with, which isn't the same as the wiring Seymour Duncan recommends. I can explain further if you think it would help, but the bottom line is Seymour Duncan said to wire it one way, but the guitar itself came wired differently, so I just swapped the pickups.
2. I replaced all other hardware in the guitar. The pots, three way switch, and the jack are all from guitar freak.
3. I had an electrical engineer resolder everything. He was a coworker and did outstanding work.
Questions:
1. Do you think the issue is that I didn't follow Seymour Duncan's suggested wiring? This seems like the obvious answer to me.
2. Is there a way to be sure that the pickup isn't the issue? I am mostly trying to confirm whether I should buy a new pickup or take it in to be resoldered following the Seymour Duncan schematic.
3. Why do you think me beating on the guitar fixes the issue? I have to do it everytime I pick it up.
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