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Each Z-mode switch setting is programming including the middle switch position. For example, some players like to have the switch go brighter to darker with each position change - the Mid Z-Mode setting on both pickups might logically occur when the switch handle is toward the bridge and the...

Ayoue are cheap and ok - not the best temp control but easily more than you need for jacks/pots etc. Like fhm555 said - use solder to do the heat transfer... I have a bunch of extra eutectic (63/37) lead solder rolls I am never going to use at this point... RS does not have good stuff - look...

Save your self some grief - get a new tip. WP series tips are cheap < $4 Solder tips are more complex than you probably think and the link below has more info than you need... Invalid Link Removed

Lots of jack lugs became much harder to solder after the change to ROHS coatings. For example - Switchcraft lugs were awful for the first 2 years after the process change - slowly they got better but even today they are not near as easy to solder to as the older ones. China is presently making a...

Yes - I could be the compressors. If you have an electric field problem then shielding will fix it - sounds silly but wrap around your bass body with Al foil and ground it - if you still have the problem (I expect you to still have one) then you have a magnetic field problem created by the high...

Ray man is correct on the magnet lengths and positions Ok - the geeky engineering note is: The 74's have less capacitance and more inductance in the coil winding - they almost exactly match my vintage early 70s pickups with only a very slight increase in capacitance from the vintage pickup -...

I should add that wire winding tension failure is normally a more common problem as the pickup coil gets wider so this should be rare for a standard P. And the insulation can "cold flow" across time when the tension is too large and temperature affects the creep rate. So G&L might have tested...

It would have been interesting to measure the resistance from the outside magnets on the E and A strings to the pickup wires. It almost sounds like your pickup was wound with too much tension and the insulation failed. The insulation failure due to over tension always happens at the end of an...

If you have a meter then in resistance mode test for a low ohm connection from the strings to the jacks... You might also test with the guitar in the playing position - if you have a really marginal connection under the bridge then the connection can change with the angle of the bass. Next...

Line6man has it right - check that the strings are getting grounded to the jack. The Super 55's have 3 wires - hot, common and ground. The ground is only a shield on the bottom of the pickup - it does not make contact with the magnets. The 2 coils are wound symmetrically with the out side...

For an ideal coil of 1 layer setting in free space it of course it will not mater. Very technically it can matter if you have a multiple layer coil but I would say not important at audio frequencies. But when you have a "significant" capacitance coupling to a conductive object then it can...

3 pickups are needed to do the test: P1) A neck wound (assumed) clockwise and N up P2) A bridge wound counter clockwise and S up P3) A bridge wound clockwise and N up P1+P2 is a standard jazz set It cancels hum in the center with a passive setup With the JNC it cancels hum and noise in...

I will PM you later today. Thanks David

We will soon be offering a 2nd module which can be combined with a Classic Preamp (old or new) to add noise cancelling and a LED battery meter but it will only work with our Classic module preamp series. David

I have been thinking about this also: For a fair comparison: (please post if anyone has a different idea) Pole piece placement must be equal - i.e. you can not just use 2 bridge pickups instead of a neck and bridge pair. A pickup actually wound the other direction to get the capacitance...