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2 mystery cases...buaaaa
well at least for me!!
Case 1:
a few weeks ago, for the first time in my life, i grab an iron solder and proceed o change my 1999 ibanez rg570 pu´s. i decided to go Paf Pro, Evo single, Mo´joe (NMB).
Got 2 diagrams: the one from ibanez and the new one from dimarzio. on both the wiring on the 5 way switch was:
lug 8 (closer to the neck): red from neck pu
lug 7: red (hot) from middle pu
lug 6: red from bridge pu
lug 5: cable to volume 3rd lug
lug 4: nothing
lug 3: white / (black + white dimarzio) from neck pu
lug 2: cable to ground on the back of the volume pot
lug 1: white / (b+w dimarzio) from bridge pu
so i unsoldered everything that should be unsoldered and put the new pu´s on...conect to my guitar amp and start playing....i like what i´m hearing but theres something really weird....my neck pickup (the one selected on position 5 of the switch) sound like i was expecting the mojoe to sound and viceversa with the paf pro.....there´s something wrong i think....so i put the switch in position 1 (bridge only pu) and tab the neck pu.....i hear it loud on the amp....do the same with other pu and it seems like i´ve wired the pu all wrong....when i select the neck pu (5) it was the mojoe that sounds, and when i select the bridge pu (!) it was the paf pro that sounds...
so i rewired this 2 pu and switched their positions on the 5 way lugs ending like this:
lug 8 (closer to the neck): red from BRIDGE pu
lug 7: red (hot) from middle pu
lug 6: red from NECK pu
lug 5: cable to volume 3rd lug
lug 4: nothing
lug 3: white / (black + white dimarzio) from BRIDGE pu
lug 2: cable to ground on the back of the volume pot
lug 1: white / (b+w dimarzio) from NECK pu
i dont know if is something that i want to believe but i kind of remember that the old puS was wired like that.......
so i´m no wiring expert but i´ve been playing guitar for 15 years and i can hear the difference between bridge and neck pu...
are all this diagrams wrong?..........i´ve developed a ear problem that can tell between a n or b pu?...........is my 5 way put it the wrong way (from factory....i dont think this because that way the lugs will be in a really ackward position for soldering)........did the solder smoke affect severely my brain?......am i too old to learn this kind of stuff?.......is this a bad dream?....i´m a victim of a masive complot from ibanez and dimarzio?......wth is going on here!!!
some clue?
Case 2:
so a few days ago i was feeling confident with my brand new iron solder. My cousin has an old piece of ***** Seville sg copy guitar that had no electronics on it except for a pickup mounted to the pickguard. not even a routing for a pu selector.
so i download a diagram from seymour duncan page fro a 2 humbucker, 1 tone, 1 volume, 3 way ........drill a hole for the 3 way toggle, put the new vol po, the new old pot and the same old output jack and started soldering like crazy......we ran out of wire and i just cut some from the speakers of my sony stereo...everything looks like it should except for the las ground cable that goes from the back of the tone pot to the bridge. there was no hole drilled that goes to the stop tail or the tunomatic style bridge....and it was late and my little daughter has to go to sleep.....
so i thought...well this piece of crap will sound like it shoul (crap) and be very noisy because of that wire not being conected to anything....so we can do that a few weeks later when i got some time...
conected the guitar and tap the pu (no strings on it so no way to prove it like i should...) and i can hear the taps on my amp.....both pu, the 3 positions of the toggle.....everything looking good...
so my cousin arrive to his place, put some strings on his new "AXE" and......no sound. He call me and my newly acquired confidence on guitar wiring was gone.
the next morning he called me again to tell me that he could make the guitar sounds by taking that ground wire from the back of the tone pot and making it touch his guitar cable plug (his cord "male"...you know what i mean?...the guitar cable metal thing that goes into the guitar output jack)
and guess what....that guitar sound AWESOME!!!...... just kidding ....is a piece of crap....
any clue on this one?
Conclusion: i know nothing about guitar wiring
anybody can tell me what happens in any of this cases?
thanks in advance
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