Pickups change tone control function

[Bladefish]

Re: Pickups change tone control function

Thanks everybody. I think that I will just use these pickups without a tone control, as they seem to sound fine when all controls are maxed. Not worth it for me to spend any $ on them.

 

[Bladefish]

Re: Pickups change tone control function

So now I have new curve ball. Originally, I bought these SD humbuckers as part of a package that included a Squier Tele body, hardware, non name Tele bridge pickup, and Kent Armstrong Tele neck pickup with chrome cover. I decided to get a Tele neck and put together the parts to build a Tele for my son. The bridge pickup seems fine, but the neck pickup does exactly what the SD humbuckers did (turning down the tone control makes it sound out of phase and volume is greatly reduced). I don't know if some environmental issue would cause this, or something else. This is the only time that I've experienced this, and with pickups that all came from the same guy.

 

[freefrog]

Re: Pickups change tone control function

So now I have new curve ball. Originally, I bought these SD humbuckers as part of a package that included a Squier Tele body, hardware, non name Tele bridge pickup, and Kent Armstrong Tele neck pickup with chrome cover. I decided to get a Tele neck and put together the parts to build a Tele for my son. The bridge pickup seems fine, but the neck pickup does exactly what the SD humbuckers did (turning down the tone control makes it sound out of phase and volume is greatly reduced). I don't know if some environmental issue would cause this, or something else. This is the only time that I've experienced this, and with pickups that all came from the same guy.

Hello,
I've wrote a possible explanation in my previous posts. To know if it's the case, you have to measure the DCR of the litigious PU's with a multimeter (if they are cases of "broken wire / capacitive coil", a DMM will read no DCR but will measure a capacitance, while it would be the contrary with a normal pickup).