Nostalgic Distortion
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Alright, I think I already know the answer to my question but I'd be remiss if I didn't ask your advice before I go doing anything too drastic...
So a couple of weeks ago I bought myself a brand new Classic Player Triple Telecaster! I wasn't crazy about the pickup layout in it (three 51 Nocaster bridge pickups all wound exactly the same on a 5 way switch) when I bought it but I got a great deal on it & figured I could always change it into something more traditional later?
Much to my surprise I actually really liked the 51 Nocaster's in the neck/middle slots, & I really don't mind not having any hum-cancellation in the notch positions which I thought I'd hate! My biggest problem with it was the bridge pup, obviously it's a bit week compared with the other two...
So I decided that instead of turning it into a two pickup guitar like I had originally planned on doing I'd keep the neck and middle pickups as they were and just swap out the bridge pup with something a bit hotter/louder...
I settled on a Bare Knuckle Piledriver which sounds fantastic and it seems to have solved my output issues but unfortunately in position 2 on the switch the bridge and middle pickups are out of phase, although I do have hum-cancelation now, LOL!!! Anyway, like a dummy I said "well I'll just swap the leads & then it will be perfect" but I didn't take the baseplate into account when I did this so when I flipped them it just hissed at me!!! Obviously if the plate isn't grounded the guitar isn't grounded....
My question is this, can I solve this problem by switching the leads as long as I also move the baseplate ground to the other wire as well? I'd really like to get this sorted because my only other options would be to either just deal with it sounding thin, shrill, awful, & out of phase in that position, or to buy two other Bare Knuckle Tele bridge pickups and replace the current puppies which is redundant because I like what I've got, more difficult than you'd think because they're typically sold in sets here in the US, & is likely going to be quite expensive!!!
