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Old 11-17-2005, 04:26 AM
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Exclamation Humbucking Pickup Trouble - help needed!

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Hello! I've just got an used bass (active preamp with J pickup in neck position and Musicman at bridge). It has a problem: if I use the neck pickup it sounds good but if I use the MM pickup only or both combined the output volume goes down. The output goes down as soon as the MM pickup volume is set at maximum, if I use it at 3/4 it works.
So it seems that the MM pickup is the problem. It seems that all the wires
are ok and pot works fine. What could it be? A phase problem? A faulty
pickup? Any advice appreciated.
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Old 11-17-2005, 07:23 AM
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Hello!How many wires your MM Pickup have ?If he have a 4 wires, i think it's a phase problem in this pickup. In this case the pick up coils may
be wired uncorectly. 2 of 4 wires are joint together. Simply unconnect there and join one of this wire with another one(you have a two options) and check. If your Pickup have a 2 wires there is another problem.
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Old 11-18-2005, 03:20 AM
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I had the bass checked by a friend and it seems you were right... now it works flawlessly
Thanx a lot for your advice!
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