Anniversary JB / Jazz problem, weird thin sound

[Shredmrt]

Re: Anniversary JB / Jazz problem, weird thin sound

Thanks for the positive comments on the guitar, made it from a MM usa neck and british made swamp ash body. Gutted out the frets, added mop and binding, stain/nitro on the body.

But back to the problem at hand.. I swapped the bridge pickup for a unused sd 59/custom hybrid and wired that straight to the jack. Same ratty sound! So I figured it cannot be the pickups after all... Only thing left in the "circuit" was the shielding I had added to the cavities. This particular body has such shallow cavities that the pickup was hitting the shielding underneath it. Not sure how it would be possible, but apparently there was some sort of a ground loop/issue sucking that low end from the signal?! I tore all shielding out from underneath the pickups and now it seems to work just fine, still not quite as loud as the other guitar but now the sound is full!

 

[Shredmrt]

Re: Anniversary JB / Jazz problem, weird thin sound

The covers are actually same "nickel" color as the polepieces and the rest of the pickup. Just compared to pickups I covered myself which have that bluish chrome on the covers that clearly differs from the "nickel" color.

 

[zenmindbeginner]

Re: Anniversary JB / Jazz problem, weird thin sound

Thanks for the positive comments on the guitar, made it from a MM usa neck and british made swamp ash body. Gutted out the frets, added mop and binding, stain/nitro on the body.

But back to the problem at hand.. I swapped the bridge pickup for a unused sd 59/custom hybrid and wired that straight to the jack. Same ratty sound! So I figured it cannot be the pickups after all... Only thing left in the "circuit" was the shielding I had added to the cavities. This particular body has such shallow cavities that the pickup was hitting the shielding underneath it. Not sure how it would be possible, but apparently there was some sort of a ground loop/issue sucking that low end from the signal?! I tore all shielding out from underneath the pickups and now it seems to work just fine, still not quite as loud as the other guitar but now the sound is full!

It wasn't a ground loop but what I suggested earlier... you were sending your signal to ground like if you had your volume knob down.