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Post by cunningr on Oct 20, 2014 15:39:04 GMT -6
Well I started changing my pups on my guitar yesterday, I have the neck pup working but the bridge pup sort of dies out like it ran out of juice. Any I have been reviewing the wiring and I think we wired it incorrectly.
what I have learned.
1. Pups do not use standard wiring colors
2. Carvin active electronics are a pain in the rear
3. Plan on taking longer than it should
4. Wife gets pissed when I spend all Sunday afternoon wiring guitar and then go play sports.
well practice will be sketchy this week as I took out the switches again to check the wiring. Hopefully
get a chance to work on it tomorrow afternoon.
at any rate the tone at the bridge was excellent cleaned up some of that muddy tone. Can't wait to get the wiring corect.
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Post by bluesbruce on Oct 20, 2014 17:33:57 GMT -6
Rich,
I've never switched pickups in my guitars, but I can still relate to number 4...
Bruce
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Post by cunningr on Oct 20, 2014 22:37:12 GMT -6
Bruce I suspect number 4 applies to more things than guitars  . |
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Post by joachim on Oct 20, 2014 23:02:10 GMT -6
Rich,
what a conincidence - I just changed PUs this weekend. I installed Seymour Duncan vintage blues PUs in my Epiphone Les Paul. These PUs have only a single shielded signal wire, so I didn't have to worry about colors. Do you have a multimeter? That makes it easier to test the wiring...
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Post by jack1982 on Oct 21, 2014 5:16:35 GMT -6
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Post by cunningr on Oct 21, 2014 10:20:32 GMT -6
Thanks for the color schem but mine isn't on there. I found a color code on the carvin bbs and a guy doing the same change as me basically. I reviewed his info against my set up, homed the coil, the wrote everything out in a table. Anyway after looking the seymour wiring schem I need to tie red and white together and connect to the w input on the circuit board, if I remember correctly the black input is connected to red, the red input to green and the spot labeled shield goes to bare wire. Makes more sense on paper, my carvin uses the a500g active electronics which uses 4 inputs b,w,r, shield. Carvin pickups I have have 3 wires and a sheild, the new sd pups are 4 wires plus a sheild. From the ohm reading is appears that carvin connect north and south finish internally on the pup, which is white. So to get the wiring correctly on the sd you tie the finish connection together. The sad wiring diagram shows this configuration also, but not connected to anything. My guitar has a phase switch and a 2 switches to turn it into a single coil. On the active electronics board I have a balance knob 2 tone knobs and vol. last a 3 way to switch bridge neck or both which brings the balance into play. Long way to say I think I have it figured out, and hopefully tested later, I am a taxi driver today.  |
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Post by cunningr on Oct 21, 2014 15:56:52 GMT -6
Update
Pups installed 2 ea pearlygates reverse zebra, sound is awesome, the look is cool cream outside with black middles, on an emerald green guitar, will take a photo.
Only issue I may have a ground wire a little long grounding out every so often played it half an hour with no problem though maybe just needed to settle in its spot.
Now only if new pups fixed timing issues.
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Post by nursedad on Oct 22, 2014 7:02:41 GMT -6
Don't I wish
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