RolanTHUNDER
New member
Hi SD guys.
My Mustaine neck Livewire is not sounding like the full humbucker it is designed to be. It sounds like a Strat pickup all the time now... must admit I traded my Strat for the Eclipse EC1000 Deluxe which is second hand and it came with possibly my favourite or at least one of my favourite active sets, only to find the neck sounded weak and thin! I thought it may just be a simple wiring issue which I could sort out and since I like the guitar I figured I'd do the trade. The idiot claimed "oh no I always play with gain and never had these pickups before so I thought that's how it sounds..." how can any guitarist honestly not know what a humbucker sounds like?? Anyway, I took the guitar thinking I could sort the wiring out which I thought was the issue. Alas, after many tries which included swopping the neck conductors to the bridge pot, nothing helped. Only thing that made a slight difference was when I touched the neck pots two terminals where the pickup was wired with a flat head screwdriver and it suddenly livened up. Took the screwdriver away and it weakened again. That made me think the pot was the issue so I tried bridging the terminals but it didn't help and when I wired the bridge onto that neck pot it was perfect. A friend advised trimming the neck pickup wire as there may be a breakage up top but that too, didn't help. Can't trim too much off anyway...
So, what can I do? I know repairing actives are basically a no go but, isn't there a way to save this pickup?
P.S. the set came out of a Dean VMNT and I suspect that the person/idiot who pulled them to swop out the EMG's the Eclipse had stock, messed up the pickup somehow. Why would he pull Mustaine's out of a Mustaine axe for crying out loud...
My Mustaine neck Livewire is not sounding like the full humbucker it is designed to be. It sounds like a Strat pickup all the time now... must admit I traded my Strat for the Eclipse EC1000 Deluxe which is second hand and it came with possibly my favourite or at least one of my favourite active sets, only to find the neck sounded weak and thin! I thought it may just be a simple wiring issue which I could sort out and since I like the guitar I figured I'd do the trade. The idiot claimed "oh no I always play with gain and never had these pickups before so I thought that's how it sounds..." how can any guitarist honestly not know what a humbucker sounds like?? Anyway, I took the guitar thinking I could sort the wiring out which I thought was the issue. Alas, after many tries which included swopping the neck conductors to the bridge pot, nothing helped. Only thing that made a slight difference was when I touched the neck pots two terminals where the pickup was wired with a flat head screwdriver and it suddenly livened up. Took the screwdriver away and it weakened again. That made me think the pot was the issue so I tried bridging the terminals but it didn't help and when I wired the bridge onto that neck pot it was perfect. A friend advised trimming the neck pickup wire as there may be a breakage up top but that too, didn't help. Can't trim too much off anyway...
So, what can I do? I know repairing actives are basically a no go but, isn't there a way to save this pickup?
P.S. the set came out of a Dean VMNT and I suspect that the person/idiot who pulled them to swop out the EMG's the Eclipse had stock, messed up the pickup somehow. Why would he pull Mustaine's out of a Mustaine axe for crying out loud...
