I´m putting an old neck pickup in a diy les paul project. It´s from a gordon smith gs1.
It has two shielded wires coming out of it, a red on and a blue one. The shields/bare wires are tied and soldered together. I´m guessing red is hot and blue and shield goes to ground?
Testing it with my dmm, it reads the following:
Red - bare wires: 9,5k
blue - bare wires: 4,8k
red - blue wires: 4,8k
Im thinking 4,8k is a bit low for a humbucker, don´t you.
9,5 k is better, but it would make no sense soldering the bare wire to ground, using red as hot, and then leaving the blue wire hanging there?
Any suggestions
Best regards -Kasper
It has two shielded wires coming out of it, a red on and a blue one. The shields/bare wires are tied and soldered together. I´m guessing red is hot and blue and shield goes to ground?
Testing it with my dmm, it reads the following:
Red - bare wires: 9,5k
blue - bare wires: 4,8k
red - blue wires: 4,8k
Im thinking 4,8k is a bit low for a humbucker, don´t you.
9,5 k is better, but it would make no sense soldering the bare wire to ground, using red as hot, and then leaving the blue wire hanging there?
Any suggestions
Best regards -Kasper
Blue will be for a coil tap just insulate it unless you want a single coil option and use shield to ground red to hot
You must be right, because it sounds fine and balanced with the bridge pickup, when i leave the blue wire unsoldered. Another question though. I was under the impression, that it Would be a good idea to use audio pots for volume, and linear pots for tone. But the volume sweep is Very sudden.... It all happens from 8-10, and if i try to lower the volume on on of the pickups in the middle position, it is like the other pickup gets quite louder. The middle position is not as loud as the other positions.... I am certain I have not wired them in "out of phase" it seems weird, cause my old SG does not do this, and they are wired the same Way: vintage style with 0,022 uf 600 v caps.
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