I recently got an RR24 that had a passive duncan in it, but it came with the original EMG 81, a stereo jack and a 25k pot .
It's a single hum, single volume control guitar. It didn't have all the newfangled quick connect stuff, nor could I find an older EMG wiring guide that reflects the older wiring, so I just had to sort of guess. Here's what I did.
The ground coming out of the pickup to the back of the pot, and the white lead coming from the pickup to the lug on the left side of the volume pot.
The red wire coming from the pickup connects up to the red wire on the battery connector.
There was a ground wire sort of underneath the pickup, I connected that to the back of the volume pot.
There was a big insulated 3-wire snake thingy going from the jack to the volume pot. I kept that in there and put the stereo jack in. Connected the ground of the battery to the outermost part, the back of the volume pot to the second innermost, and the middle lug of the volume pot got soldered to the innermost part of the stereo jack.
There was also a wire going from the tremolo spring claw to the volume pot, I got rid of that because my other guitar with emg's doesn't have one of those and it sounds just fine.
SO
the symptoms are..
It's a little bit noisy if I'm not touching the guitar.
The volume knob is microphonic (you can hear when I tap on it, etc.)
The volume pot is extremely noisy when turning it, it doesn't roll off the volume smoothly at all, it has little "notches" where it just kinda kicks back up to full volume, and it sounds out of phase as well while turning it. if that makes any sense.
Although it seems to sound good if the volume is 100% up and I'm playing the guitar. As soon as I let go of the strings it makes noise.
So, anyone know what I did wrong? EMG doesn't seem to have the older wiring diagrams from before every single part was solderless. So I really have no clue. any help would be extremely appreciated
It's a single hum, single volume control guitar. It didn't have all the newfangled quick connect stuff, nor could I find an older EMG wiring guide that reflects the older wiring, so I just had to sort of guess. Here's what I did.
The ground coming out of the pickup to the back of the pot, and the white lead coming from the pickup to the lug on the left side of the volume pot.
The red wire coming from the pickup connects up to the red wire on the battery connector.
There was a ground wire sort of underneath the pickup, I connected that to the back of the volume pot.
There was a big insulated 3-wire snake thingy going from the jack to the volume pot. I kept that in there and put the stereo jack in. Connected the ground of the battery to the outermost part, the back of the volume pot to the second innermost, and the middle lug of the volume pot got soldered to the innermost part of the stereo jack.
There was also a wire going from the tremolo spring claw to the volume pot, I got rid of that because my other guitar with emg's doesn't have one of those and it sounds just fine.
SO
the symptoms are..
It's a little bit noisy if I'm not touching the guitar.
The volume knob is microphonic (you can hear when I tap on it, etc.)
The volume pot is extremely noisy when turning it, it doesn't roll off the volume smoothly at all, it has little "notches" where it just kinda kicks back up to full volume, and it sounds out of phase as well while turning it. if that makes any sense.
Although it seems to sound good if the volume is 100% up and I'm playing the guitar. As soon as I let go of the strings it makes noise.
So, anyone know what I did wrong? EMG doesn't seem to have the older wiring diagrams from before every single part was solderless. So I really have no clue. any help would be extremely appreciated
