Another Frustrating Wire Problem..

[Ghwar]

Hey all. I recently converted a guitar with active pickups to passive pickups

i'm not new at all to swapping pickups or wiring, i'm quite good at soldering and know my way around in there.

BUT.

For some reason these humbuckers are noisier and hummier then a single coil. this is not right. the bridge pickup sounds pretty muddy at times too, like a neck pickup, but only sometimes, like it's phasing in and out of the muddiness, it's weird.

the only thing i can even THINK of it being is the fact that i still have the stereo jack in there (I don't have a spare mono.) But I dunno, I can't see that making a difference. the pots are all wired up right and everything is grounded to each other. what gives?

(PS, thanks in advance)

[Tim37]

is the bridge grounded good

i know its kinda elementry but if the wire wasnt on good at the bridge you may not have even noticed before.

[al heeley]

Pots: what is the resistance of your tone and volume pots? Don't pots for active, driven pups have to be 50k or something? Passive HB's need 500k pots. Muddy bridge = question the value of the capacitor on the tone pot as well as the resistance of the tone pot.