I Am Absolutely Stuck With These Emg's...can't Get Them To Work |
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Jan 16 2009, 01:47 PM
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Aye indeed, did you just try some of the elementary stuff?
I mean try plugging the guitar into like a tuner or whatever to just see if it's actually putting out any signal? Or perhaps try switching out the battery just to make sure it's that. Just make a little checklist of every small silly little thing you can think of and control it, besides if the wiring is done right you could easily try another emg pickup in the pup slot now right? The actual pickup is hooked up with a clip is it not, ie very easy to replace? note the 3 pin connector on the left of the EMG 85 tag. 
This post has been edited by Sigfridsson: Jan 16 2009, 01:51 PM -------------------- Guitars: ESP Eclipse I CTM Full Thickness, Ibanez RG470 with EMG81/85 pickups.
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Jan 16 2009, 01:49 PM
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Do you have a battery?
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Jan 16 2009, 02:16 PM
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As said, check the soldering again, there might be a very small problem somewhere in there. Good luck!
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Jan 16 2009, 07:55 PM
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QUOTE (Praetorian @ Jan 16 2009, 07:17 PM)  What do you mean a battery? Just kidding!   good one!  If you have a multimeter you should be able to measure the pins and wires on/from the pickups, the pots, the switch to find out if something is dead. Could be some silly error like the volume pot overheated during soldering and died, the switch doesn't connect, the battery feed is broken or somethingsomethingsomething. That way you could rule out what died. The problem can be to know exactly what to measure. Especially switches are tricky but the three way one should be no match. ...I picked out my multimeter so see how and what is measurable but the box was empty  I don't have EMG's either so even if I find it I can't help you with those in particular, but some random measurement should show an impedance.
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Jan 16 2009, 07:58 PM
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I'd also say use a multimeter, if the thing doesn't give any output, you might have a dead Pup?
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Jan 16 2009, 10:26 PM
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QUOTE (kaznie_NL @ Jan 16 2009, 07:58 PM) I'd also say use a multimeter, if the thing doesn't give any output, you might have a dead Pup? We don't like dead puppies now do we? |
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Jan 17 2009, 10:56 AM
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Nopz, and both dead is quite weird indeed, but not impossible. Have you checked with the mulimeter?
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