Zarg
New member
Hi Guys!
I have a problem and can't figure it out myself. I bought a 2nd hand explorer and it still is how I got it. The pickups are 496R and 500T, but the bridge position doesn't sound right, the neck position does.
I took it to our practice space and when I played with gain and our usual volume, the bridge pickup had massive feedback which I never experienced with any guitar, plugging it in at home today I realized that it sounds "thin" (very bright and a lot less output) , especially when switched from the neck to the bridge, the neck is nice and fat and the bridge sounds unreasonably thin. I checked with gibsons 4 conductor color scheme and it does not look like its messed up and wired with the coil splitted all the time, the white and green connector are taped up but I didn't look since it would probably make no sound if they aren't connected, or am I wrong?
I tried my best to take pictures of the wiring, I appreciate your help greatly! I'm just clueless right now and I really like that guitar, just sounds odd.
(the bridge measured about 13,8k ohms DCR which is quite considerably lower than my other explorer 500T which is 15,4k)
cheers!
http://i.imgur.com/hoGSOjK.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/SxmGLKH.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/9kx42NV.jpg
I have a problem and can't figure it out myself. I bought a 2nd hand explorer and it still is how I got it. The pickups are 496R and 500T, but the bridge position doesn't sound right, the neck position does.
I took it to our practice space and when I played with gain and our usual volume, the bridge pickup had massive feedback which I never experienced with any guitar, plugging it in at home today I realized that it sounds "thin" (very bright and a lot less output) , especially when switched from the neck to the bridge, the neck is nice and fat and the bridge sounds unreasonably thin. I checked with gibsons 4 conductor color scheme and it does not look like its messed up and wired with the coil splitted all the time, the white and green connector are taped up but I didn't look since it would probably make no sound if they aren't connected, or am I wrong?
I tried my best to take pictures of the wiring, I appreciate your help greatly! I'm just clueless right now and I really like that guitar, just sounds odd.
(the bridge measured about 13,8k ohms DCR which is quite considerably lower than my other explorer 500T which is 15,4k)
cheers!
http://i.imgur.com/hoGSOjK.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/SxmGLKH.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/9kx42NV.jpg
