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The Pickup Place / Re: Wiring Anomoly - HSH
« on: December 30, 2019, 11:15:50 PM »
I really appreciate your comments. I will try the magnet flip and let you know how it goes. I did find a Stew-Mac article showing how to do it. Cheers!
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The Pickup Place / Re: Wiring Anomoly - HSH
« on: December 30, 2019, 06:46:10 PM »
HarlowtheFish - I think you have hit the nail on the head. I have two choices at this point: take apart the neck pickup (which I have never done before) or replace the clones with an existing set of SD JB/Jazz I have or get real Transitions. Now, a question, as I do have REAL Transitions in one of these 3 guitars and the same wiring works as it should...I would assume that Transitions don't "normally" come with the neck RWRP?
Keep in mind - I have completely replaced the original pots/cap/wiring with full-size US parts. Would this have any bearing on the issue?
Any direction on where to look for pickup deconstruction info? Putting the SDs in at this point is the "Easy Button" solution.
Keep in mind - I have completely replaced the original pots/cap/wiring with full-size US parts. Would this have any bearing on the issue?
Any direction on where to look for pickup deconstruction info? Putting the SDs in at this point is the "Easy Button" solution.
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The Pickup Place / Wiring Anomoly - HSH
« on: December 29, 2019, 07:25:39 PM »
Greetings all - first post. Long time Dimarzio user who wandered over to SD and back again. I have a weird wiring situation. I have three guitars with the same pickup configuration and the exact same wiring. Two sound identical, but one is not playing nice. I run HSH so I can get my strat tones along with my 'buckers. Each guitar has Dark Matter 2 single coils and either Transition or Dark Matter buckers. Actually the problem child has Sterling Transition clones - which I really like.
The issue is position 4 (neck/middle) (all have 5-ways) on the Transition clones is extremely and unnaturally thin. Position 2 sounds as it should - nice quacky strat tone. I have gone back through all three guitars today and verified all are wired the same, so I have no clue as to why this one position is off, especially since P4 works but P2 doesn't.
Anyone have any thoughts on this curious issue? Any info is very much appreciated.
Also - on the DM2 single coil...what is with the gray wire. I don't have it attached to anything in any of the guitars and I can find nothing as far as wiring diagrams that even references a gray Dimarzio wire.
The issue is position 4 (neck/middle) (all have 5-ways) on the Transition clones is extremely and unnaturally thin. Position 2 sounds as it should - nice quacky strat tone. I have gone back through all three guitars today and verified all are wired the same, so I have no clue as to why this one position is off, especially since P4 works but P2 doesn't.
Anyone have any thoughts on this curious issue? Any info is very much appreciated.
Also - on the DM2 single coil...what is with the gray wire. I don't have it attached to anything in any of the guitars and I can find nothing as far as wiring diagrams that even references a gray Dimarzio wire.
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