Problem With My Bridge Pickup. Help Me! |
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Problem With My Bridge Pickup. Help Me! |
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May 3 2012, 06:20 PM |
This is happened to me a few times, usually with neck pickups. Wiggling the selector back and forth does usually wake things up but yeah, get it cleaned out properly by someone
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May 3 2012, 06:31 PM
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My bridge pick-up has just lose 80% percent of his volume, when I use a heavy distorsion on my ampli the sound that come out is almost clean. When i switch to neck pickup all is right (decent distorted sound). I had a gig yesterday night and all was fine... Do you think i should try to remove my pickup to see if some wire has displaced? thanks for the help! Just out of curiosity what kind of guitar is it? I have a Gibson faded Flying V that I have this exact same problem with, and I had the toggle switch replaced by a guitar tech and it did fix it for a few weeks then it started acting up again, So I'm looking around for a new tech to replace the wiring and maybe the pick up as well. -------------------- My Sound Cloud Profile: http://soundcloud.com/casinostrat
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May 5 2012, 11:53 PM |
If its the switch just give it a blast with WD40 or any other penetrating oil
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May 6 2012, 01:56 PM |
If its the switch just give it a blast with WD40 or any other penetrating oil This is what Id id on my Washburn when it gave me weird cracking and such when moving any volume/tone/switch on it. I ran down to the local electronic store picked up DeoxIT. Took the caps off the pots and dripped some of it on there let it set and then came back did a quick spray and turned them back and forth/flick to get it to break up dirt. But I agree with a lot of people here, if its an older guitar or something you don't want to take a chance with anything happening. Take it to a tech have him rewire it all up get new pots/switch also. That way all your guts are new and will have the best connection possible. If there is an issue after that maybe look into replacing pickups. -------------------- Guitars:
Ibanez S770PB (Natural Flat) , Ibanez XPT700 (Chameleon) , Sterling J Richardson Signature , Squire IV Jazz Bass (Sunburst) Gear: Neural DSP Plugins My YouTube Page. |
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