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Lakland Owners Group #63
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Well, junk. My soldering experiment didn't exactly work.
Here's what I'm noticing. The bridge volume is wack. It makes no sound at 100% on, but turn it down some and it works.
Did I burn it out? Or maybe it's a wiring / ground issue? I should probably head over to the proper forum, but I like you guys better
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A wiring ground issue is more like it works or doesn't.
Just a quick mention, make sure your soldering iron is good and hot when soldering grounds to the case of the pot, you want to get in make a good solid connection and get out. I've ruined a few with extended heating and reheating because the iron wasn't hot enough.
I use a Weller WLC100 40-Watt that lets me control the temp and set it at 4 which works great.
In addition, make sure the tip on your soldering iron is not worn and nasty. A tip that is old can cause bad solders too.
Lee, is it just V/T V/T? I think that I have a wiring diagram that Fred gave me when I bought my darkstars for this setup. I will dig through some junk and see if I still have it, but from what I recall you have to wire them a little different.
In other news, I performed the Lakland recommended neck treatment with orange oil and scotch brite pad on the Ice Blue JO. It really makes a difference, the neck feels even better than it did before. I would definitely recommend doing it if you have had your bass a while.
In other news, I performed the Lakland recommended neck treatment with orange oil and scotch brite pad on the Ice Blue JO. It really makes a difference, the neck feels even better than it did before. I would definitely recommend doing it if you have had your bass a while.
Lol! Yeah... I heard 1 million hobos cheer when I posted it... They know you have one already
got this baby restrung with Dunlop nickels and set up today. Playing and sounding like the beast she is.
Nice! LOVE Dunlop nickels! I like their steels too!
Yep! That would be great, if you had one. Looking at my bass vs the same with Barts (I still have one at home) and it seemed different. That being said, I don't know why it would be. DS's are just ...essentially single coils, yea?
The difference is the coil tap. If DS are single coil already, you probably don't use the switch. That would explain wiring differences.
My US HB has two switches....Large for pup selection.
And the small toggle is called a " Dark Switch"...cutting highs...exactly Markus.
At least this is what they set mine up with at the factory with the factory loaded Darkstars.
Yeah...all of the HBs have pickup selectors. I was talking about the one that is different in comparing the basses.
Yeah, Lakland's website says it's a coil tap. If it really is a coil tap, then engaging tap would bypass part of the coil on each pickup, making it seem more bright. Will the tap bypassed, flipped towards the neck, all of the windings are engaged giving it a deep, dark sound.
Isn't it a coil tap (convert humbucker to single coil) on a 'standard' HB and a 'dark switch' on a Dark Starred HB ?
I'm pretty sure it genuinely was a humbucker/single switch on the HB I had (with barts), and I understood that when they install dark stars, since they're not coli-tapped, they had to do something with the redundant switch and they made it a dark switch. That's from memory, I never owned a DS'ed HB.
anyone know what the standard strings, brand and size, come on the lakland Skyline hollowbody bass. and what flat strings are on the sound bites on the websight, which i can't seem to open lately.
I THINK you are exactly right.
I recall my tech talking to Carl at Lakland when re wiring the ground on my DS HB and I think this is what he said.
The factory's wiring for the DS pups was definitely ...not exactly normal. I bought new pots and redid the whole thing using a map from the world wide Internet. While I was buying pots, I grabbed some new knobs...
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