I have a wiring problem.....

[jeff l]

Hey all, maybe someone can help me out. On one of my 570's I had taken the tone control out and added a Paf Pro/ V V Blues/ Paf Pro combination. Well today I decided to replace the bridge pup with a TZ.

Well now I'm getting a fairly trebly sound that seems *maybe* a bit low on output. I'm also getting a bit of noise (hum)....nothing major but it seems a bit worse than before. I'm getting more hum when the volume knob is in the middle of it's rotation and the TZ gets more and more brittle as I roll the volume down. I'm thinking I've knocked something loose going to ground but I've yet to re-solder anything as it's too late. I'll have to try tomorrow.

Now barring that, here's my wiring. The TZ is wired (red to hot, white and black to lug #6?....can't quite remember, same place the black and white were with the old Paf) and green and bare to the pot. Now, DiMarzio says to tape back the black and white leads but isn't that only when you don't have a middle single? I'm confused...


Thank you for any help....I'm a bit of a wreck right now trying to figure this out.

[darren wilson]

See if these help...

http://ibanez.com/wiring/wire.asp?y=2002&w=JEM7

http://guitarelectronics.com/diagrams/hsh1.html

http://guitarelectronics.com/colorcodes.html

From the sounds of things, you may have something grounded incorrectly, or you may have wired the pickup out of phase.

[gtrcollectr]

The red is your hot lead and this should go where your old red wire was. Same with the white/blk this functions as a coil tap to split the humbucker it should go where the old blk/wht set was. The green and bare should go to ground on the back of your volume pot. Doublecheck all of your connections and look for cold solderjoints. And also check all of your ground connections. If these are correct then you might have a phase problem meaning you will need to swap the green and red wires.

Good Luck
Todd

[Champagne Mist]

Yeah. The only reason they tell you to tape up the black-while connection is so the exposed solder won't touch any other connections, and only applies when you are not going to be tapping the bucker.

[jeff l]

I just had some crappy connections, after re-soldering she's kicking a$$. Thanks for the support guys.