Hello fellow enthusiasts,
I have looked through the forums some and have not seen anyone with a unique cluster**** of a situation like I am currently in so here we go:
I have a guitar with 2 humbuckers. SH-1n for the neck and in the bridge is an SH-13 Dimebucker. So they are both seymour duncan pickups.
For the guts I have an all solderless EMG system. Originally it was just two basic volume pots and a master tone pot.
I got a little adventurous and decided to upgrade the two volume pots to the new series/parallel potentiometers EMG recently started offering(these are all passive btw, no 9v powered accessories in this build).
Now I can confirm all the pots are working, but with my dimebucker pickup I am getting a very peculiar behavior....
When the pot is in its down position it should be in series..... but it barely makes any sound at all! Like I can barely hear the amps picking up on it unless I strum and then its hardly anything.
When the pot is in its UP position it should be parallel which deadens the sound SOME (but not like previously), but instead it sounds like it is somehow playing in series full volume.....
In a nutshell: it is almost like the pickup is acting in reverse, except parallel works as series and series acts as a broken parallel.
I made sure to line up the seymour duncan colors with the EMG colors so I can confirm all the North start/finish and South start/finish are properly lined up as they should be.
I tried swapping them out as well in all kinds of layouts, ones that should work and ones that def wouldnt, with no success or difference in behavior.
Any other pickup I have tried whether it is seymour duncan, dimarzio, emg, homemade, etc.... all work fine except the dimebucker......
Does this sound like anything that anyone has experienced with a humbucker before or maybe the Dimebucker in particular?
I think I should also mentioned that I stripped the wires on the dimebucker down to its soldered posts and put my own cabling on it, and its still doing the same stuff as before...sorry forgot to add that in first edit.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
I have looked through the forums some and have not seen anyone with a unique cluster**** of a situation like I am currently in so here we go:
I have a guitar with 2 humbuckers. SH-1n for the neck and in the bridge is an SH-13 Dimebucker. So they are both seymour duncan pickups.
For the guts I have an all solderless EMG system. Originally it was just two basic volume pots and a master tone pot.
I got a little adventurous and decided to upgrade the two volume pots to the new series/parallel potentiometers EMG recently started offering(these are all passive btw, no 9v powered accessories in this build).
Now I can confirm all the pots are working, but with my dimebucker pickup I am getting a very peculiar behavior....
When the pot is in its down position it should be in series..... but it barely makes any sound at all! Like I can barely hear the amps picking up on it unless I strum and then its hardly anything.
When the pot is in its UP position it should be parallel which deadens the sound SOME (but not like previously), but instead it sounds like it is somehow playing in series full volume.....
In a nutshell: it is almost like the pickup is acting in reverse, except parallel works as series and series acts as a broken parallel.
I made sure to line up the seymour duncan colors with the EMG colors so I can confirm all the North start/finish and South start/finish are properly lined up as they should be.
I tried swapping them out as well in all kinds of layouts, ones that should work and ones that def wouldnt, with no success or difference in behavior.
Any other pickup I have tried whether it is seymour duncan, dimarzio, emg, homemade, etc.... all work fine except the dimebucker......
Does this sound like anything that anyone has experienced with a humbucker before or maybe the Dimebucker in particular?
I think I should also mentioned that I stripped the wires on the dimebucker down to its soldered posts and put my own cabling on it, and its still doing the same stuff as before...sorry forgot to add that in first edit.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
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