Help needed

[DarrenGrant]

Hi can you help? I recently had a Seymour Duncan jb and a jazz fitted to an epiphone gothic explorer and a rewire ! The pick ups are working on clean Chanel but the guitar doesn’t work on a perfectly fine tuner and lead! He has used two new 500k pots on the two volumes,but has reused an old tone pot and fitted a capacitor! The tuner is not picking up chromatic scale! I’m having him look at it again tomorrow,if anyone can help that would be great! I’m thinking it’s the tone pot or capacitor, any thought may help thanks in advance!

 

[Adieu]

Re: Help needed

Is the chromatic tuner by chance built into your amp?

Because normally you dpn't actually even NEED pickups to use a chromatic tuner...so that's kinda odd????

 

[DarrenGrant]

Re: Help needed

Plugged into a tuner

 

[Mincer]

Re: Help needed

Welcome to the forum!

So there is no sound into an amp, or there is? I am a little confused. Did you rewire it, or did someone else? Can you post a few pics of the wiring? We are pretty good here about sorting this kind of stuff out.

 

[DarrenGrant]

Re: Help needed

Yes sound coming out on clean channel but awe full on gain channel and it’s not being picked up by pedal tuner! There is no chromatic scale being picked up on each string,just a couple of false signals! I will post pictures of wiring if it’s not repaired by the guy that wired it tomorrow morning! He used a wiring diagram and his work looks good just that there is a problem! Thanks

 

[DarrenGrant]

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Hi today we changed a pot in the tone position and the capacitor and the imput jack and adjusted the pickups and the guitar tunes and plays but now has a lot of static even with a boss noise suppressor pedal! The lead when you move it a bit suppresses the static a little, and I tried bending the contact plate in jack to see if it would fix it but it didn’t! He wired it using the Seymour Duncan wiring diagram that comes with the pickups! I can send photos of the wiring but I need to know how as I’m not good at this sort of stuff yet on my iPad! I have a few guitars and don’t have this problem with my guitars or amp ect! Any help will be appreciated thanks

 

[beezerboy]

Re: Help needed

double check all the joints that were soldered in the last repair. bad solder is a cause of skraky noises, so re-solder is probably a good idea. then, either clean the switch contacts or replace the switch with new. this is not the same problem as the original. maybe look for a new tech... better yet, learn how do it your self

 

[Mincer]

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This still does not sound like a pickup problem, but something funky is going on with the wiring there. Is there 'static' or 'hum'? Those would be different problems.

 

[beaubrummels]

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The fact that the static happens despite the noise suppressor, and the previous complaints of signal on clean but problems on gain make me think the problem is outside the guitar. But TBH the problem description is so bad, I cannot assess what the problem actually is (grounding, shielding, bad solder, bad cables, etc.)