Thin neck & bridge

Paully

Paully

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So,
My Strat was sounding normal in the "middle" p/u position, but neck and bridge sounded about 1/2 volume and very thin by comparison. I bought a pre-made wiring harness from "ToneManGuitar". It came with new pots, new tone cap, new out-put jack and new 5 way switch.
While installing new "guts" I dripped solder down into the new switch and ruined it. I cleaned up the old switch and reinstalled it. Now I've got "Middle" p/u normal, "neck" p/u 1/2 volume and thin, "bridge" p/u 1/2 volume and thin and I've got a wicked hum from neck and bridge p'ups.
Basically the new wiring harness appears to have not solved anything. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. TIA
 
Re: Thin neck & bridge

The first thing to check is always that the wiring is correct and no ground wire is touching a signal wire. The next is your solder joints. After that you can try to figure out if any of the components are damaged and need to be replaced.
 
Re: Thin neck & bridge

If you are sure you've soldered everything correctly, sounds like busted pickups to me! You have a brand new harness so it's unlikely that the switch or the components are bad. Again, if everything is soldered correctly, you should look into new pickups, or get them repaired.

Perfect excuse to buy yourself a new set of pickups from Duncan's fine selections, no? =P
 
Re: Thin neck & bridge

Oh yeah you could check your pickups with a meter to make sure they're not broke.
 
Re: Thin neck & bridge

You can also wire each pickup directly to the jack and see if you are still getting the same low volume. It is unlikely that 2 pickups could be defective at once, but it could happen. If all else fails...put them on a meter, and post pics here and we can try to sort this out.
 
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