Guys, I'm doing a pickups switch for a friend but I got lot of problems that I'm trying to solve.
I have to put a 59 and a Distortion on a Jackson DKMG. As I already did lot of times, I immediatey take note of the wirings already in, just in case.
The guitars have a 3way selector and the wiring with the emg was:
So looking the picture and looking the inside of the electronic compartment I think that putting the lever to the left make me select the neck pickup, and the lever to the right the bridge pickup (as it was before). Anyway I got some ground loop problem and I did lot of test today and it comes that the volume pot was fucked up. To check if it was the volume pot I wired the HOT from the input jack and the HOT of the bridge pickup to the "bridge" position of the selector (the bridge position of the photo/of the wiring with emg's) and nothing came out from the amp.......but when I select the neck pickup, the sound came out!
It's really weird because I connected the neck and the bridge pickup as they were connected before, but apparently, with this selector you have to solder the pickup in a reverse way. I mean, when you put the lever on the bridge position, flipping the guitar, the connection is on the "neck" side...it's not easy to explain...it's like that the neck pickup is selected when the opposite side of the lever is on the left/neck side (lever on the right so back of the lever to the left = neck pickup selected = bridge pickup soldered to the left position)
The point is: why the pu's were soldered that way before? Maybe the guy (my friend just bougth it used) always played the guitar using the wrong pickup selected?
If anyone know how a 3 way Jackson selector should be soldered, please let me know.
It's the first time I have to solder the pickup selector in reverse mode (I know those fuckin levers selectors have lot of connection options and the order of soldering vary from selector to selector, but this one seems very simple).
Thank you very much
I have to put a 59 and a Distortion on a Jackson DKMG. As I already did lot of times, I immediatey take note of the wirings already in, just in case.
The guitars have a 3way selector and the wiring with the emg was:
So looking the picture and looking the inside of the electronic compartment I think that putting the lever to the left make me select the neck pickup, and the lever to the right the bridge pickup (as it was before). Anyway I got some ground loop problem and I did lot of test today and it comes that the volume pot was fucked up. To check if it was the volume pot I wired the HOT from the input jack and the HOT of the bridge pickup to the "bridge" position of the selector (the bridge position of the photo/of the wiring with emg's) and nothing came out from the amp.......but when I select the neck pickup, the sound came out!
It's really weird because I connected the neck and the bridge pickup as they were connected before, but apparently, with this selector you have to solder the pickup in a reverse way. I mean, when you put the lever on the bridge position, flipping the guitar, the connection is on the "neck" side...it's not easy to explain...it's like that the neck pickup is selected when the opposite side of the lever is on the left/neck side (lever on the right so back of the lever to the left = neck pickup selected = bridge pickup soldered to the left position)
The point is: why the pu's were soldered that way before? Maybe the guy (my friend just bougth it used) always played the guitar using the wrong pickup selected?
If anyone know how a 3 way Jackson selector should be soldered, please let me know.
It's the first time I have to solder the pickup selector in reverse mode (I know those fuckin levers selectors have lot of connection options and the order of soldering vary from selector to selector, but this one seems very simple).
Thank you very much
