Noisy Pearly Gates?

[Chris Pile]

I just had a set of Pearly Gates installed in a Les Paul copy.... and they are quite noisy when used singly, and only quiet when both pickups are on. I don't think they are tapped, but they are rather "spanky". Did my tech mess up?

By the way - I had all the Asian guts removed from the circuit, and had a Switchcraft jack and pickup selector installed, with a 500K CTS volume pot - no tones in the circuit.

 

[treyhaislip]

Re: Noisy Pearly Gates?

Sounds like something is not right–my experience with Pearly Gates never involved noise.

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Noisy Pearly Gates?

Pop the cover and take some pics for us. Maybe we can spot something.

 

[Jeff_H]

Re: Noisy Pearly Gates?

If your tech isn't familiar with the Duncan wire color codes, he may have mixed them up. If you are not wired up for coil splitting it should go like this:

Red and White soldered together and taped off
Green and bare wire together soldered to ground
Black is hot, so to hot input on volume pot.

If you post a pic we can probably tell straight away.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Noisy Pearly Gates?

If your tech isn't familiar with the Duncan wire color codes, he may have mixed them up. If you are not wired up for coil splitting it should go like this:

Red and White soldered together and taped off
Green and bare wire together soldered to ground
Black is hot, so to hot input on volume pot.

If you post a pic we can probably tell straight away.

This is my guess. The PGs are not noisy at all, unless you are in a particularly noisy room with lots of neon, transformers, dimmer switches, or florescent lights.

 

[Chris Pile]

Re: Noisy Pearly Gates?

Here you go...

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Noisy Pearly Gates?

What control scheme do you have?

 

[Chris Pile]

Re: Noisy Pearly Gates?

What control scheme do you have?

Pickup selector, volume, series/parallel switch (for both pickups on in humbucking mode).....

 

[Chris Pile]

Re: Noisy Pearly Gates?

Red and White soldered together and taped off
Green and bare wire together soldered to ground
Black is hot, so to hot input on volume pot.

I assume you looked at my pic, and there is NO red OR white.... So I guess you're not correct.

 

[Jeff_H]

Re: Noisy Pearly Gates?

I assume you looked at my pic, and there is NO red OR white.... So I guess you're not correct.

First of all, there's no need to be an ass. I WAS trying to help you.

Secondly, the only two wiring options I've ever seen SD offer is vintage braided or the standard 5 wire red, white, green, bare, black. So I don't know what you have there, but it's certainly not vintage braided.

Good luck figuring it out.

 

[Chris Pile]

Re: Noisy Pearly Gates?

I WAS trying to help you.

You know what they say about horseshoes and hand grenades?

 

[Mincer]

Re: Noisy Pearly Gates?

Since we can't respect other forum members, this is done.