confused about my nordstrand nj4se's :(

[myhibachi]

i recently purchased a pair of nordies off of ebay and i went to my local guitar shop to have him install them and a leo quan badass II bridge on my fender jazz reissue. i just got it back today, and my bass sounds awesome, but i've also noticed when i turn my neck pickup down and try to play out of the bridge pickup it doesn't seem to be registering the d and g-string very loudly but the lows come through fine, however if i turn the neck pickup up it sounds great. now i'm a little new with hum cancelling pickups, but i was just wondering if the guy did a shoddy job on installing the pickups or if that's what they are supposed to do.

[luknfur]

FWIW:

raise the pup on the d/g side.

[dmusic148]

Shouldn't be this way. I'm not sure, but it could be possible to wire in only one half of the pickup by mistake. Or, one half may simply not work- the hum cancelling ones are made in two halves. Try this: roll off the neck pickup completely. Turn up the bridge, then touch the pole pieces at the D and G side with something magnetic, like an allen wrench. You will know immediately if that end of the pickup is working or not-you'll get loud clicking/scratching noises if it is.

[myhibachi]

update on that. it appears whenever i move the bridge pickup around a little that it begins to play but is still not as loud as the neck pickup. could it just be a bad solder job or could it be the pickups themselves, because the pups were still in plastic wrapping when i bought them. thanks

[Figjam]

Sounds like a loose connection.