New pickups - wiring issue?

[spleenharvester]

Hello all. I have a Slash signature pickup and a Duncan tele hot rails. These are wired to a Blacktop stratocaster through a super 5-way switch, with some odd results.

Slash pickup (rewired to 4-conductor): Works fine, but seems... a bit tame? Maybe it's just that it's night and the volume is pushed down low, but it feels like even with my overdrive pedal it sounds very 'clean'. Hot to ground = 8.6k, red/white (joined) to ground = 4.3k, red/white to hot = 4.3k.

Hot rails: Very quiet (MUCH quieter than the Slash pickup), typical grounding issue sound that does not relax when strings or anything are touched. Measures fine, the same way the Slash pickup does - full 16k hot to ground and 8k on the others. Zero resistance of ground wire and black wire to ground.

I've taken a torch to the switch and had a very good look, and I can't for the life of me figure out what is wrong.

Unfortunately can't get decent pictures of the wiring job itself as my only camera just completely sucks.

Any ideas?

 

[spleenharvester]

Re: New pickups - wiring issue?

A bit more info on the hot rail wiring - have I got this correct? Red -> hot, green and white -> soldered together to split position, black -> ground. Someone said I might have swapped red/black but I was under the impression it does not matter here so long as the bare wire meets ground?

Edit; reading around I am fairly sure that is what I have done. Brb trying swapped

 

[darthphineas]

Re: New pickups - wiring issue?

black = hot
green/bare = ground

 

[spleenharvester]

Re: New pickups - wiring issue?

Yup, I had wired them quite incorrectly - the hot rail now sounds perfect.

The only issue now is that the middle position (supposedly neck + bridge series) sounds strange - kinda thin. Is it possible for two SD humbuckers to be out of phase with eachother with standard wiring diagram?

Edit; yeah, it was just out of phase. I believe I have it all up and running now.