I'm having trouble installing my Audere JZ3 preamp on my SX 5 string w/ Bartolini pickups. The wiring from the Bartolini pups is just a black wire for each pickup and a red wire coming from the bridge. The black wires have a clear wire on the inside of silver braided wire. Upon close inspection, the people who installed my pickups separated the clear coated wire from the silver braided wire and put them in different positions on the pots. My assumption is that one is the hot and one is the common. Is this right? I followed the instructions that came with the preamp and going along with my assumption that the clear is the hot(since the instructions say that the hot wire is typically white or red colored and the clear wire is sorta white) and the silver is the common. The result is no sound coming from my bass. Could someone help me out? What am I doing wrong?
Should I just treat the braided silver and clear coated wire as one wire and put them both in the spot on the preamp leaving just the red wire coming from the bridge (not bridge pup) to connect with the white ground wire on the preamp?
Should I just treat the braided silver and clear coated wire as one wire and put them both in the spot on the preamp leaving just the red wire coming from the bridge (not bridge pup) to connect with the white ground wire on the preamp?
