Hi guys,
I've muddled through fitting pickups in the past and always got away with it. But this time I'm really stumped and need some help. I hope someone can come to my rescue.
A few months I fitted a cheap (£30) 'hot rail' bridge humbucker to my '72 Custom Tele.
But a few weeks or so later I noticed that the high E string wasn't coming through the bridge pickup properly. The string wasn't choking, and it was coming fine through the neck pickup.
I thought it must be the cheap bridge pickup, so I forked out for a DiMarzio and have now just fitted that. I also replaced the volume pot.
But exactly the same thing is happening -- 5/6 strings come through fine, but the high E is really muted.
If it's not the pickup, it's not the string, and it's not the volume pot, what does this leave? The tone pot I guess.
Or is there something else at play that I don't know about?
I'm tearing my hair out on this, please help!