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Old 09-29-2005, 10:25 AM
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Somethings not quite right... wiring


Ok, so I got my pickups all wired up and everything in my guitar (RG 470)

Fred -> bridge
PAF Joe -> neck
stock S1 -> middle

they are wired up with the dimarzio 500k push/pull pots for a satch type arrangement with coil split on the tone control and high pass switching on the volume control.

They are wired up to the fancy dimarzio switch so that it's normal H-S-H switching except in the middle position where its the neck and bridge together.

Everything works fine with the switching, no noise with the humbucking modes, and a great range of sounds.

I ended up taking the guitar along to a tech to get it wired up and he followed the diagram I got off of Dimarzio for this switching setup. Although he canged it so the hi-pass filter is on when the switch is in and is off when pulled.

Now, my problem is that I seem to be getting a lot of twang in the top end that I don't rember hearing when I tried out a JS1000 with my amp, this is something my guitar never did with the stock pickups. I can hear it all the time, even when i'm playing high gain stuff it always has the really high frequency twang in the top end.

What could be causing this problem? Could it be that one of the pots isn't bleeding the top end off, that the pickups are wired in parallel or wrong?

Any suggestions or help would be very much appreciated.

The original DiMarzio wiring diagram can be found here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...t_hpfsplit.gif

I don't have my guitar at home at the moment, but in a couple of days I could record a clip to show whats wrong, it'll be through my Vamp2 though, so it won't be as apparent as through my Cornford MK50.
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Old 09-29-2005, 11:42 AM
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Re: Somethings not quite right... wiring


sounds like you have the s-1 wired in with the fred some how. This same thing happende to me and my rg570 . I put a norton in the bridge and it was really bright and twangy, it didn't hum though . I opened it back up and sure enough one stray little wire was connecting the two different pins together .

So go back and check your wiring to make sure that you just dont have a stray strand connecting two pins .

I will get a diagram for you or explain what goes where so you can check .
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Old 10-02-2005, 04:53 PM
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Re: Somethings not quite right... wiring


ok, cheers. i will have a look at that tomorrow
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