Lorquas

...and the Fender Jazz. ...and Ken Smiths. ...and Warwicks. ...and Carl Thompsons. ...and Ritters. ...and almost all Alembics. ← Gibson SG basses and rickenbackers place the poles of thier "neck" pickup around 7 to 8 inches away from the absolute center of the string (where you get the bassiest tones)... while fender jazz bases have the back of their dipole magnet of thier "neck" pickup at almost exactly 11 inches... giving you less bass and more mids. This contributes a considerable tone change when you account that the rickenbacker's and fender's scale length only differes by .75 inches. same thing goes with Ken Smiths. ...and Laklands. ...and Foderas. ...and MTDs. ...and Elricks. ...and Conklins. ...and ESP/LTDs. And Odin, if you're confident you can get the sound you want out of neck and bridge pickups (you should play similar basses if you aren't sure), then go for it

you get extremely bassy sounds ifyou place the pickup right below the neck, and if your pickup uses pole magnets, there is a posibility that it'll sound bubbly... plus most people think it sounds like crap all together. You could go for a bridge and mid configuration like a fender jazz bass or any other bass with two pickups made really...

yup, and oddly enough it was my tone pot as well

Well "not working" most nearly means "nothing happens when i hook it up", so you may be correct... However the pickup was working before it was taken from the Epiphone a day ago. I'm gunna try your breakdown idea and take it step by step. i can't get pics of it unfortunately... but i'll keep this updated. thanks

I'm trying to install a pickup from an old epiphone les paul into another guitar, and I seem to be stuck. The setup i'm going for has just the one humbucker (it has one hot and a ground), a volume, and a tone knob (all parts from the origional guitar). I've tried several configurations suggested by tutorials and similar projects but none of them seem to be working. this is one of the ones i've tried: http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/schem...1vol_1tone.html i assume I just ignore the red and white soldered together (cause i don't have them), but this configurateion doesn't work either.. Anybody got a wireing diagram or ideas? Thanks!