Seymour Duncan Liberator/Install woes
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I started to re-install. Which side does this black wire that’s connected to the tremolo ground go to? The left or right side of this terminal with 4 ports?
*this is the orientation the pot will be sitting in the guitar. Half the problem I have is the orientation of the diagrams Idk which way is what
*this is the orientation the pot will be sitting in the guitar. Half the problem I have is the orientation of the diagrams Idk which way is what
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beaubrummels
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A capacitor is required for a tone pot to function as a tone control. Jumping straight to ground just made it a second volume pot, in which case I would just completely remove it from the circuit.
If you followed the Duncan diagram that had a mistake in it, that might have been the issue. A blade switch has to be wired like this for all positions to function.
A capacitor is required for a tone pot to function as a tone control. Jumping straight to ground just made it a second volume pot, in which case I would just completely remove it from the circuit.
If you followed the Duncan diagram that had a mistake in it, that might have been the issue. A blade switch has to be wired like this for all positions to function.
thanks , I’ll go forage for a capacitor. I just stripped a pcb terminal off a new cts pot. Down to 1 last fresh pot for the attempt. This is difficult.
Ok I re wired it and now:
tone knob works like a tone knob,
master volume(liberator) works
Bridge pickup doesn’t select
middle position works but idk which pickups, sounds like both but it might just be the bottom coil of the neck humbucker..
neck position works I guess
tone knob works like a tone knob,
master volume(liberator) works
Bridge pickup doesn’t select
middle position works but idk which pickups, sounds like both but it might just be the bottom coil of the neck humbucker..
neck position works I guess
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beaubrummels
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With the guitar plugged in, try each switch position and tap piece of metal, like a screwdriver, on each coil of each humbucker to hear which coils are 'on' in each position.
I don't know what 'bottom' coil means. Are these regular humbuckers? Or stacked singles?
They just regular humbuckers. Some of my soldering joints were piss poor and I had some connections touching each other.
it’s working 100% atm… I think
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I have a 3 way oak grisby blade I installed replacing a 5 way that was originally in the guitar.
So far it’s working fine. All selections and modes of coil splitting are functional.
I called a guitar shop yesterday and luckily they had a capacitor I could have. It’s a green .047uf that I wired up according to the diagram.
if I knew how to edit and make the diagrams I’d do one for this setup because having it correctly drawn out from the get-go might have saved me some time. Although the practical application of me failing and destroying 2 Cts pots was only something experience could only teach.
yes, I was installed a Saturday night special neck pickup into my Jackson DK-2 pro series. It’s the only guitar I own so it’s important it works!
I also have the black winter trembucker in the bridge position. It came jb/59. Jb wasn’t tight enough and 59 was kinda clubby and muddy. This Saturday night special with its A4 magnets really tightened the low end and now I have incredible cleans in the middle position coil tapped and neck position full on or coil tapped. It’s a great pickup for a lighter weight Floyd guitar for neck PU options
nichihaii53
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I called a guitar shop yesterday and luckily they had a capacitor I could have. It’s a green .047uf that I wired up according to the diagram.
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bernard.lebel
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Welcome to the forum, and thank you for doing this.
