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All right thanks.

I just purchased a D Sonic Pick up to bwe place in the bridge possition of a hamer scarab guitar

and I was wondering what direction should I put the pickup in to get the highest crunch.

The long solid black bar to the back towards the bridge?

Or have the solid black bar towards the neck and the single pole pieces in teh back next to the bridge.

Im not too familliar with The Dimarzio D Sonic but I heard it was great for Drop Tunings so I thought I should at least try it out.

I assume your amp has a distortion stage? The pickups don't generate their own distortion. You probably knew that, but I thought I'd throw it out there anyhow because the name "Super Distortion" is sort of misleading to people not in the know, IMO.

Next, though, if you have to crank to get anything, you need to double-check your wiring. One of two things is happening:

1. Your signal return (ground) of your pickups isn't connected properly-- it's either completely not connected, or it's short-circuiting somewhere. Without the right "ground", you won't get a signal.

2. You have wired your pickups out of phase with each other, and the frequencies are cancelling out. This produces a very thin sound throughout the majority of the guitar's usable frequency spectrum, leaving a little bit leftover in the lows and highs, but obliterating the mids (where the heart of a guitar's tone lives).

Both of these require double-checking your wiring diagrams and possibly re-soldering.

One thing to be aware of is that not all pickups use the same coloured leads. So even if you drew a picture of your old pickups with coloured wires, and replicated it with the new pickups, you might be wired up incorrectly because of differences in colour coding. Dimarzio and Duncan are definitely different from one another, which is leading me to suspect that you didn't know that and therefore ended up wiring them out of phase with each other or even with themselves (the two individual coils being out of phase). Can you get a usable signal out of -any- of the positions of your switch?

Greg

i think i might have mixed the wires up and used the same color codeing as the stock pickups whichs was green one way black the other i might have to take it to a guitar tech guy and have him check it out but thanks alot

i just installed 2 Pickups into a Jackson Js30RR

Neck:Dimarzio Super Distortion

Bridge:Seymour Duncan Full Shred

and now i cant hear or my amps or pickups cant pickup any distortion and the volume has to be cranked to hear anything and i cant figure out whats wrong or what happend?

need help badly plz

i think a rusty rr would look kool, make it look like a rat rod.

theres some custom jacksons here for ideas

http://www.themusiczoo.com/jacksonguitars.htm

i like these designs but how do i do them?

http://www.themusiczoo.com/RR1_holoflake_U14406full.jpg

HoloFlake

http://www.themusiczoo.com/KE2_EDS_U15659full.jpg

Erie Dess Swirl

is there anybody who has done these graphics before that can tell me how?

I've purchased a cheap blue Jackson Js30RR and i decided to improve it and give it some custom graphics and stuff and i was wondering what are some easy graphics and designs i could do with my Rhoads i thouht of a new paint job probably to go with it but i have never done something like this before

so if anybody has done anything like this with a Rhoads i would appreciate if u could steer me on the right track.

my guitar

i was thinking a design or paint job that nobody has never seen on a rhoads something catchy

Pedal boards are way to expensive for what they are and somebody said it would be cheaper just to make one so I decided to make my own and I have know idea how I should start or set this project up or what materials I should use

Im making a pedal board to put these on it

1 Wah pedal

2 Dist pedals

1 Modeling processor/Equililzer

1 Reverb pedal/Delay pedal

Im not sure what to do like make a 2 deck or single slanted or what size the average pedal boards are so if anybody has done this sort of thing and can set me on the right track I would apreciate it

I want to know if you guys know of a way to put on Sharkfin inlays on my Ibanez Grx40 without changing the neck of my guitar and

if its possible i would appreciate it if you could tell me where to buy Sharkfin inlays from or where to get this done at?