Seymour duncan and fender pickups together: the out of phase question

[ThomasP]

Hello everybody I am pretty sure this topic was covered somewhere but can't find my exact situation so here it goes:

I have a 2 pickups guitar with a seymour duncan five-two rwrp in the neck and a fender telecaster texas special in the bridge (I dont know if he is rwrp), both pickups have the yellow soldered to the 3 way switch and the black wire on the ground:
I am wondering if the texas special is out of phase because he has almost 2 times less volume than the seymour duncan, the disto/output is really low compares to the five-two and when I select this pickup to me he just sound thin and weak compared to the five-two

Is it possible to have only one pickup out of phase? There dont seem to be any problem with the five-two

What is wrong with me and life in general?!?!?!

Thank you

 

[AlexR]

No, 1 singlecoil pickup by itself can't be out of phase......this relationship describes the waveforms of 2 signals when combined.

Sounds like the TS is damaged - best get out the multimeter and check the K reading it shows vs the Fender spec.

 

[Mincer]

Yes, the 'out of phase' sound relates to 2 pickups on together. I would agree to check the TS to see what it reads- it should easily be loud enough to balance. BTW, the Five Two is a great pickup in the neck!

 

[ThomasP]

Thank you for the logic responses, is it possible that I damaged the TS pickup when I passed the wires trough the guitar body? And I may have butchered the thing by installing it on a metal plate that mimic a telecaster bridge and then screwed the the plate and pickup into a plastic plate made for putting a single coil into a square hole made for humbuckers?

 

[marcello252]

if you have a tester you could measure the pickup resistance, it must be around 6K, in case it was good it could be a bad solder too, double check the connections, try to solder again the pickup wires, even if they look good

 

[Mincer]

Yeah, the only way to know if you damaged it is to measure it. Then you would know if it is behaving properly.