Guest AlexVDL Posted May 29, 2003 Report Share Posted May 29, 2003 I have the following problem... :o I just put in two Gibson ceramic pickups in my les paul., the 496R and 500T. The bridge pickup (500T) sounds like an open wah pedal when I fully open the volume pot. It is just one conductor (or two, depends how you look at it). I soldered everything correctly, hot wire to pot and wire covering to ground (pot base). I didn't connected my tone pots, so I have volume only. When I turn the volume from 10 to 8, the sound disappears and everything sounds ok. But once turned to 10 again it looks like I steped on my wah wah pedal. A bit nosy sound... What could this be?? Damaged pickup? Wrong connection? Too much output? :o I tried to lower the gain on my amp but that did not work, neither did lowering the pickup so it gets farther away from the strings. Does somebody know this problem and has an answer for it? Thanks, Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Rosenberger Posted May 29, 2003 Report Share Posted May 29, 2003 what kind of pots are you using? 250k 500k 1 meg? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AlexVDL Posted May 29, 2003 Report Share Posted May 29, 2003 500K... everything worked ok with the former duncans, dimarzio's, Gibson classics... Weird... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Rosenberger Posted May 29, 2003 Report Share Posted May 29, 2003 Any chance you could have overheated the pot while soldering? I'd replace the pot and see if it is the cause Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted May 30, 2003 Report Share Posted May 30, 2003 i agree with scott.seems like i had an old tube amp that did that once(an aims i think it was)it was kind of a "wide open" sound for lack of a better description. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ansil Posted April 3, 2004 Report Share Posted April 3, 2004 dying capacitor????? i once had a cap that was dying and it was loosing and gaining capacitance. and since i lef the tone just below 10 then it was fluxuating.. i wish i could recreate that sound witha pedal though, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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