pickup sounds way more trebely/tinny than before?

[anonymous278347457]

Ive got a MM style pickup, and there are 5 wires coming out of it

red, white, black, green, and a uncoloured one which was attached to the black wire.

they go to 2 different coils red and black to one. green and white to the other, and the uncoloured one goes to a piece of copper foil on the back of the pickup

I had them previously wired up to a series parallel switch which wasent very good, so when i rewired it, i connected the black wire, uncoloured wire and white wire together, and hooked up the red and green to the pots(red being hot)

now....it sounds tinny/trebely and quiet.

any ideas what wrong?

I seem to be having consistently bad luck with any attempt at doing electronics

[RyreInc]

Probably you wired it out of phase. I would guess that white is a hot lead, but I dunno whether the green or the red would be ground. Red isn't necessarily hot. Bottom line, you need to switch two of the wires, but which two I don't know. There's probably documentation to be found which will tell you which wires are which.

[PilbaraBass]

Originally Posted by RyreInc

Probably you wired it out of phase. I would guess that white is a hot lead, but I dunno whether the green or the red would be ground. Red isn't necessarily hot. Bottom line, you need to switch two of the wires, but which two I don't know. There's probably documentation to be found which will tell you which wires are which.

correct...phasing most likely the issue here.


Ryre,

Based on what you said, try connecting Black and Green to ground, and Red and White to the volume pot

But, what's strange is that you described R and B as one coil and W and G on the other...that seems a bit odd to me. disconnect all the wires and make SURE that this is so.

On Kent Armstrong humbuckers (which yours' probably isn't so take with a grain of salt), R and G are one coil, and B and W are the other.