wiring an rwrp pickup

[tenniso]

when wiring a pickup that is rwrp, are the hot and ground reversed from a non-rwrp pickup?

i installed a set of Kent Armstrong p-90's in my strat. the bridge sounds pretty good, but the neck sounds dull and lifeless. it didn't sound like this in the hollowbody i took it out of. all i can think of is, the neck pickup is rwrp, and i wired it exactly like i did the bridge.

these pickups have one lead with wire mesh surrounding the cloth covered wire. on the bridge pickup, i wired the mesh as the ground, and the cloth covered wire as the hot. as i said, the bridge pickup sounds pretty good.

so, should the neck pickup be wired with the wire mesh as the hot, and the cloth covered wire as the ground?

 

[Artie]

Re: wiring an rwrp pickup

RW/RP already takes into account the "reverse" stuff. You wire it as normal. The only thing I can think of is to double-check your wiring, and maybe tweak the pup heighth.

 

[tenniso]

Re: wiring an rwrp pickup

i have already tried pickup height, and polepiece height to no avail. i cant imagine what is wrong with the wiring. one thing i just remembered, the volume controls work in the opposite direction than usual. in other words, to turn the volume up, you roll the volume knob toward you. it is this way for both pickups, but only the neck pickup sounds bad.

 

[Artie]

Re: wiring an rwrp pickup

Hmmm . . . this starts to get complicated.

Normally, having the volume control work backwards means that you have the outside two lugs reversed. I think that still holds true for a 2-vol control layout. In a situation like this, I think I'd just start over. I know its a lot of work, but if you made that mistake, there could be others. Sorry.

 

[tenniso]

Re: wiring an rwrp pickup

the weird thing is, originally, the lugs were wired reverse of the way they are now, and the pots didn't work at all.