Angryman1522
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Hi all. New here...although I may have had an account ten years ago...
I was curious if anyone could explain this to me: I bought a Nazgul/Sentient set to replace the stock SH-14/SH-2 set in my ESP E2 (which may not have been a good choice, but more on that in a bit). When I opened the control cavity, I saw wiring that seemed a bit odd to me. I bought the guitar new, so it's not some aftermarket job done by someone with a soldering iron and too much Jameson in his system.
The guitar in question is a one vol/one tone, with a three way toggle. The volume is a push/pull coil split...or so I thought. What I found strange was the wiring of the neck pickup, which had the green and black wires going to the terminal on the volume pot (as opposed to red and white from the bridge, which is what I'd expect), the white and bare to the ground, and the red to the toggle. The bridge pickup was wired as one normally would.
Am I missing something? It has been YEARS since I did pickup swaps both for myself and other people (as evidenced by the fact that the process took an hour and a half instead of 20 minutes), but I don't remember ever wiring pickups like this. I admit, this question is a bit moot, since I've ordered a regular pot to replace the push/pull (I never use it), but it definitely left me scratching my head. I wired the new pickups exactly as the old set was, and it works fine...I think.
On a somewhat related note: I'm not super thrilled with the Nazgul/Sentient combo. Not that it sounds bad by any means, but it wasn't exactly what I heard from Ola and Keith lol (joking...I know YouTube isn't a great gauge of guitar tone). Any suggestions on a pickup combo for Death Punch style metal? I guess that's what we are, anyway. I've got guitars with EMGs, Blackouts, Suhr's...the rest are all SD, but I'm looking for a combo I haven't tried before, not that anyone here knows what combos I HAVE tried, but I'm willing to bet someone's got an idea I hadn't considered. The Nazgul is a bit too fizzy for me, and I'm looking for something a bit more "fluid" than the Sentient, since I play most of the wanky parts of my solos in the neck position.
Anyhow, I like talking gear like most guitar players, so I'm open to hear anything anyone's got to say.
I was curious if anyone could explain this to me: I bought a Nazgul/Sentient set to replace the stock SH-14/SH-2 set in my ESP E2 (which may not have been a good choice, but more on that in a bit). When I opened the control cavity, I saw wiring that seemed a bit odd to me. I bought the guitar new, so it's not some aftermarket job done by someone with a soldering iron and too much Jameson in his system.
The guitar in question is a one vol/one tone, with a three way toggle. The volume is a push/pull coil split...or so I thought. What I found strange was the wiring of the neck pickup, which had the green and black wires going to the terminal on the volume pot (as opposed to red and white from the bridge, which is what I'd expect), the white and bare to the ground, and the red to the toggle. The bridge pickup was wired as one normally would.
Am I missing something? It has been YEARS since I did pickup swaps both for myself and other people (as evidenced by the fact that the process took an hour and a half instead of 20 minutes), but I don't remember ever wiring pickups like this. I admit, this question is a bit moot, since I've ordered a regular pot to replace the push/pull (I never use it), but it definitely left me scratching my head. I wired the new pickups exactly as the old set was, and it works fine...I think.
On a somewhat related note: I'm not super thrilled with the Nazgul/Sentient combo. Not that it sounds bad by any means, but it wasn't exactly what I heard from Ola and Keith lol (joking...I know YouTube isn't a great gauge of guitar tone). Any suggestions on a pickup combo for Death Punch style metal? I guess that's what we are, anyway. I've got guitars with EMGs, Blackouts, Suhr's...the rest are all SD, but I'm looking for a combo I haven't tried before, not that anyone here knows what combos I HAVE tried, but I'm willing to bet someone's got an idea I hadn't considered. The Nazgul is a bit too fizzy for me, and I'm looking for something a bit more "fluid" than the Sentient, since I play most of the wanky parts of my solos in the neck position.
Anyhow, I like talking gear like most guitar players, so I'm open to hear anything anyone's got to say.
