Your oppinion on a pickup change in my UV777

[Wadstein]

I'm not completely satisfied with the blaze pickups. The neck pickup is fine, but I need a sharper sound from the bridge. My fav bridge pickup for 6-stringers is the tonezone... I've never heard the 7-stringed one though...

What are your oppinions on a pickup switch?

[sniperfrommars1]

Try it what harm could it do but give you a better sound. There are alot of things the blaze is really good at though. Just try it and if you dont like it switch back. Its only solder

[Wadstein]

I've never changed pickups myself... are there any tutorials online?

[kennydoe]

Assuming you're comfortable popping off your bridge and using a soldering iron, you shouldn't have a problem swapping out the pickups.

After you pop the bridge off, after that, it's just a matter of making a little diagram of where each color wire goes from your old p'up to the switch/knob/etc.

Since you're replacing a Dimarzio wih a Dimarzio, the color ocde is the same... just unsolder the old one and match the colors from the new one. It'll take you a good hour or so the first time....I've done a lot of them and i'm down to about 20 minutes

note of caution: Don't overheat the solder points on switch...they WILL melt. The switches Ibanez uses aren't very well resistant to high-heat - keep the iron on them as little as possible.

~K

[Wadstein]

Hmm... I suck att setting up guitars... so this makes me a little unsure of if I can make it on my own... It's an expensive piece to use as a first try :P

hmm...

[sniperfrommars1]

Originally Posted by kennydoe

Assuming you're comfortable popping off your bridge and using a soldering iron, you shouldn't have a problem swapping out the pickups.

After you pop the bridge off, after that, it's just a matter of making a little diagram of where each color wire goes from your old p'up to the switch/knob/etc.

Since you're replacing a Dimarzio wih a Dimarzio, the color ocde is the same... just unsolder the old one and match the colors from the new one. It'll take you a good hour or so the first time....I've done a lot of them and i'm down to about 20 minutes

note of caution: Don't overheat the solder points on switch...they WILL melt. The switches Ibanez uses aren't very well resistant to high-heat - keep the iron on them as little as possible.

~K

How powerful is your soldering iron? Not getting both contacts hot leads to a cold solder. This is just as bad as having to replace generic parts.