PizzaMaker
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Hi all, long time reader first time poster. I've seen a lot of posts on the JP wiring, but none outlining the issues I have...
Recently I finished a Kit LP style guitar. I replaced most of the junk hardware, spent a lot of time making everything fit properly (body was protruding from bindings, neck didn't fit right) and wound up with a surprisingly playable guitar that has a bucketload of sustain - definitely better than I was expecting.
Initially I wired it up with standard "modern" style wiring with the standard Jazz pup in the neck & JB in the bridge.
I got bored with this wiring after about 15 minutes, so threw in a pair of push/pull pots - Bridge splitter in the bridge tone position and phase switch in the neck tone position. This was my first time wiring up push/pull pots and I loved the results - especially the out of phase voicing - but still wanted that little bit extra. I picked up another 2 push/pulls and set to task wiring up according to the the Jimmy Page diagram that Seymour Duncan have in their files.
First up I found buzzing issues as there was no good earth, so I earthed the pots together - problem 1 solved.
Next problem is this - the bridge pickup does not work when the pots are all in the down position. When I pull up the neck tone pot (series/parallel) it seems to work. I checked and double checked my wiring but couldn't see a fault in it so in frustration I pulled it apart and tried a different setup which seemed to work, but had issues with some settings running at half volume, so again I pulled it apart.
I eventually found a tutorial which walked me through the SD setup once more, but alas, when it was finished I had the same issues with the bridge pickup outlined above.
Does this sound familiar? Does anyone else have these issues? Is this maybe how it's meant to work? I was initially thinking I could have a dead pickup, however the phase switching works and in the first incarnations of standard and "custom" wiring the bridge pickup had no problems either in standard, split or out of phase modes.
If anyone could help me I would be most appreciative.
Recently I finished a Kit LP style guitar. I replaced most of the junk hardware, spent a lot of time making everything fit properly (body was protruding from bindings, neck didn't fit right) and wound up with a surprisingly playable guitar that has a bucketload of sustain - definitely better than I was expecting.
Initially I wired it up with standard "modern" style wiring with the standard Jazz pup in the neck & JB in the bridge.
I got bored with this wiring after about 15 minutes, so threw in a pair of push/pull pots - Bridge splitter in the bridge tone position and phase switch in the neck tone position. This was my first time wiring up push/pull pots and I loved the results - especially the out of phase voicing - but still wanted that little bit extra. I picked up another 2 push/pulls and set to task wiring up according to the the Jimmy Page diagram that Seymour Duncan have in their files.
First up I found buzzing issues as there was no good earth, so I earthed the pots together - problem 1 solved.
Next problem is this - the bridge pickup does not work when the pots are all in the down position. When I pull up the neck tone pot (series/parallel) it seems to work. I checked and double checked my wiring but couldn't see a fault in it so in frustration I pulled it apart and tried a different setup which seemed to work, but had issues with some settings running at half volume, so again I pulled it apart.
I eventually found a tutorial which walked me through the SD setup once more, but alas, when it was finished I had the same issues with the bridge pickup outlined above.
Does this sound familiar? Does anyone else have these issues? Is this maybe how it's meant to work? I was initially thinking I could have a dead pickup, however the phase switching works and in the first incarnations of standard and "custom" wiring the bridge pickup had no problems either in standard, split or out of phase modes.
If anyone could help me I would be most appreciative.
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