Quarter-Pound Flat Noise question

[Gothian]

Hello everyone, I just installed in my Ibanez S470 this pickups

Bridge: Dimebucker
Middle: Quarter-Pound
Neck: Duncan Distortion

The Quarter-Pound has a lot of noise interference and less volume comparing with the other two, is this normal?, could it be a bad grounding or something like that?

Thanks !

Gothian

 

[Artie]

Re: Quarter-Pound Flat Noise question

Having a lot of noise could be "normal", depending on the environment, but a lot less volume is not normal. The QP should be pretty strong compared to the Distortion. Not sure about the Dimebucker. Thats a strong 'bucker.

I would just double-check all of your connections, just to make sure.

Or . . . describe in more detail, how its weaker. Like . . . less mids, less highs, . . . what?

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Quarter-Pound Flat Noise question

I think it's normal for the single coil in the middle to be both noisier (hum...) and to be lower in output tha full sized humbuckers. Being a QP it should have more output than a vintage Strat pickup (like a SSL-1) but it still will be weaker than a DIMEBUCKER and a DISTORTION. Those are pretty high output humbuckers. Lew

 

[Gothian]

Re: Quarter-Pound Flat Noise question

What you are saying makes a lot of sense.... I'll try to put all the PU at the same high (compared to the strings), I tend to lower the middle pickup because of my picking technique.

Thanks a lot for your feedback

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Quarter-Pound Flat Noise question

What you are saying makes a lot of sense.... I'll try to put all the PU at the same high (compared to the strings), I tend to lower the middle pickup because of my picking technique.

Thanks a lot for your feedback

Don't put that middle pickup to close to the strings. The polepieces are magnets and they'll pull the low E string out of tune when you fret above the 12th fret. Move it close to the strings then play above the 12th fret.

If the low E starts sounding funny and out of tune, move the pickup further away until the low E rings normally again.

You can usually move humbuckers closer to the strings than single coils because the magnets are underneath the coils of the humbuckers and further from the strings.

Good luck!

 

[Gothian]

Re: Quarter-Pound Flat Noise question

ok...... I didn't know about that. I'll make that experiment, thanks a lot again !!