Blackout wiring help

[ArmyGuitar]

So I just swapped my EMG's for BO's. And from what I have read they were a direct swap. Now I am getting a ambient noise from the bridge. I have been told now the bridge needs grounding, where as EMG's dont. If I reverse wire the pickup switch to be opposite will this fix it? I put them in a Stock ESP LTD Deluxe EC-1000.

 

[jacksonrr]

Re: Blackout wiring help

I think you're just gonna have to run a ground to under the bridge, dude.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Blackout wiring help

+1

Duncan installation instructions recommend that you ground the bridge. EMG ones recommend that you do not. :shrug:

 

[BrockSamson]

Re: Blackout wiring help

Is this kind of a staticy, slightly hissing sound? I did a direct swap of my EMGs in my pre-wired Jackson SLSMG Soloist with Blackouts Metals, and dunno if it's grounded.

Or maybe the Blackouts Metals are just that high-output they attract noise?

 

[johnny33]

Re: Blackout wiring help

Recently installed a set of Blackouts into my Ibanez RGA, used the quik connect EMG wiring already installed and they were a direct swap. I haven't grounded the bridge and have had no hum whatsoever. hope this helps.

 

[johnny33]

Re: Blackout wiring help

Check your solder connections on your pickup selector switch, perhaps even use some electrical contact cleaning spray on there and your volume and tone pots. May just fix any hiss/buzz and cheaper than a guitar tech.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Blackout wiring help

One further observation. Under certain circumstances, I have found Seymour Duncan active humbuckers to be more prone to interference than EMGs in an otherwise identical guitar.

My LTD EC-401w worked perfectly in my home, through my valve amplification. Another time, it buzzed like a mofo when it was tried in a friend's caravan, through his POD-XT and PA.

Obviously, differences in domestic electrical wiring could account for this. Taking the LTD guitar back to the caravan with one Duncan and one EMG demonstrated that the SD Live Wire Classic II had issues when used in that specific environment that an EMG-HA did not.

Never did work out precisely why?

 

[farass]

Re: Blackout wiring help

I installed an AHB-1 set in my guitar. Can i use this two diagrams with active pickup?
1: http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=kill_switch
2: http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=treble_bleed

 

[zakk_speed]

Re: Blackout wiring help

I installed an AHB-1 set in my guitar. Can i use this two diagrams with active pickup?
1: http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=kill_switch
2: http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=treble_bleed

Yes for the kill switch, but you dont need the treble bleed, Actives with 25K pots dont lose treble as you reduce the volume.

 

[farass]

Re: Blackout wiring help

Yes for the kill switch, but you dont need the treble bleed, Actives with 25K pots dont lose treble as you reduce the volume.

OK, Thank you my friend!

Greetings from Hungary!