Looking for some direct feedback here.
My amateur soldering jobs had left a terrible mess on the pots of my 550, so I had my guitar shop's wiring guy clean it up and re-install the original pickups.
Pics: (http://www.flickr.com/photos/79693669@N05/sets/72157631160691410/)
As you can see the soldering is quite clean, but I don't think he had dealt with a HSH guitar before where the humbuckers didn't have 4-conductor wire (like the V1 & V2). When he brought it into the shop he said something about it, how the pickups "couldn't be split" because of the lack of 4-conductor wire. I didn't know what he meant since obviously (to Ibby heads) they can be split. You can see how all the wires are attached to the last 4 points on the splitter (don't know the term), which I'm sure is not how it was before.
The concern is that it seems to sound a little funny. The humbuckers in particular don't have the girth I (think I) remember. The neck in particular has a very thin and unusually bright sound- it reminds me of the Humbucker from Hell I had in the neck slot for a few days and couldn't stand. The bridge pickup sounds not quite as bad, but just weak compared to what I remember.
Is this in my head, or does it need to be fixed?
My amateur soldering jobs had left a terrible mess on the pots of my 550, so I had my guitar shop's wiring guy clean it up and re-install the original pickups.
Pics: (http://www.flickr.com/photos/79693669@N05/sets/72157631160691410/)
As you can see the soldering is quite clean, but I don't think he had dealt with a HSH guitar before where the humbuckers didn't have 4-conductor wire (like the V1 & V2). When he brought it into the shop he said something about it, how the pickups "couldn't be split" because of the lack of 4-conductor wire. I didn't know what he meant since obviously (to Ibby heads) they can be split. You can see how all the wires are attached to the last 4 points on the splitter (don't know the term), which I'm sure is not how it was before.
The concern is that it seems to sound a little funny. The humbuckers in particular don't have the girth I (think I) remember. The neck in particular has a very thin and unusually bright sound- it reminds me of the Humbucker from Hell I had in the neck slot for a few days and couldn't stand. The bridge pickup sounds not quite as bad, but just weak compared to what I remember.
Is this in my head, or does it need to be fixed?