Feedback problems

[dd12939]

In the Strat I've got, I took the bridge pickup and put it in the neck, then wired the neck and middle pickups in series and stuck them in the bridge position, so I've essentially got a HxS configured guitar... this is all good and dandy, except that the bridge pickup, especially (but not only) when not split, feeds back like a banshee. Is there any reason that anyone can come up with for that? Right now, I just have the two (n/m) pickups in their covers, with the covers glued together. Here's a picture of it without the covers... IIRC, it fed back pretty bad then too.

I'm running a volume on each of the two pickups, a split for the bridge, a momentary kill switch, and an LED, just for kicks.

Any help? Thanks!

 

[dd12939]

Re: Feedback problems

bump?

 

[Metalman_666]

Re: Feedback problems

you said you made a pickup using the middle and neck coils?

 

[Hellion]

Re: Feedback problems

What the hell is that? Feedback is a BAD thing, now? LOL....okay... Well, normally the reason for feedback is that the input is overmultiplied by the gain.

 

[dd12939]

Re: Feedback problems

you said you made a pickup using the middle and neck coils?

Yeah, I took the neck and middle stock strat pickups, and used each as one coil of a humbucker. Just wired them in series together. the Hot of one to the ground of the other.

Feedback is a BAD thing, now?

It is in this case... it's not the friendly harmonic feedback... its nasty, screechy, uncontrollable feedback.

I just don't know why this is doing it.

 

[what?]

Re: Feedback problems

try rewiring it again, you may get it right the second time around. but the p/ups fedback b4? try wiring two noiseless coils together in series. other than that, check anything else that could cause feedback, cables, pedals, gain setting, whatever.
BTW, i dont know what it is about it, but that glued together pup looks nice to me... i guess i'm just crazy, though...

 

[dd12939]

Re: Feedback problems

the fact that they're mounted to pieced of cardboard and duct tape wouldn't do that would it?