Thanks Simon, and I meant my RCA-4 build in earlier post.
I bought a new Allparts jack to replace original, and maybe it is connecting with the shielding.
Gonna have to get in there and see....
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Thanks Simon, and I meant my RCA-4 build in earlier post.
I bought a new Allparts jack to replace original, and maybe it is connecting with the shielding.
Gonna have to get in there and see....
So after my build, I had to replace the output jack.
Last night performance, the jack again is giving me problems as in cutting out.
I may not have secured the inside of the control cavity...
OH! And raising the MM HB up from where it was, that never occurred to me, totally over looked the distance from pup to strings, even though I must have read about it several times. Seems that...
Waz, I hope my wiring issue is resolved. It sounds pretty good to me. I had my bridge to output solder joint very weak, I did disconnect the white wire from the HBer, and I raised the pup way up from...
After removing the White wire from ground, and totally grounding the braided wire to the back of the volume pot seems to have corrected the issue.
That, and my output (Green) wire was not properly...
I think we're onto something here.
So I'm posting some photos of my wiring job. I included the GFS wiring diagram sent with the MM Pickup.
The bottom illustration is what represents my wiring.
Somehow this is wired Out of Phase, or...
Thanks Simon, thought I somehow wired it real off.
I'll get a picture once I pull the guard off again.
Thanks to all PBG Gurus!
Scott, I'll post a photo of my wiring, but it may look like a mess. And that could be the root of the problem, but I got sound, the MM HB sounds weak, 3.8 on a multimeter, so half power? Or Out of...
Thanks Simon, I did that but for combining with the braided shield wire, I just swapped the ground and signal wires. My MM pup has 3 wires, red, white and black, and the braided shield wire that...
The neck pup is a single coil that came with the kit.
The bridge pup is a humbucker.
Together, in the middle position on the 3 way, I can hear their out of phase, a tone similar to my Ripper's out...
Seems my pickups are wired Out of Phase, how would I wire these opposite?
Thanks Waz.
Haven't resolved the wiring issue yet, so I get to continue on my build for awhile anyway.
I'll get it resolved soon.
Seems it's wired Out of Phase too.
So I'll continue.
So it took 4 months to receive my build, problems in China factory, Typhoons off Singapore, arrival in AU, flight to NY Customs and finally mailed to Nashville, TN to me.
During that time, the build...
So my FIRST bass ever was a 76 Ricky, that I sadly sold in Houston, TX in the late 80's for a Peavey Bass Amp and some cash, they didn't bring then what they do now.
And I've always kicked myself...
Hey Adam,
How about a Harmony H22 Bass? I've recently seen these over and over again. Never knew about them, then, like a car you want, you see them again and again. Just watched a documentary on...
Waz,
I took your advise and white wire and red together on the bridge volume pot for the MM humbucker. Taping the poles produces sound from each coil.
Considerable drop off of volume in the middle...
Once again Waz is King!
I'll try that! Thank you.
That's a 75 Alder Gibson Ripper, a 66 Jazz and now, a Mynabird, Lol!
Yes Waz, a braided copper wire, black, white and red. The white is taped off till I find a coil split/Master volume pot to add to this build. Or some other option. The 3 way in middle position is...
Well, I'm about done with my first build.
This has been a year and 4 month adventure, spending spree. I learned a lot, patience... that I need more patience, money, time and tools.
I've now...
Andy,
Nashville is Music City, your cab driver/ Uber driver is a better musician than half the folks making recordings these days.
I've been here about 30 yrs now and LOVE TN, but Nashville traffic...
Well I'm wired, without any noise, still using my clear template pickguard as a prototype to see into the control cavity for any problems.
The neck nut still needs to be filed to lower the action,...
Well, I had the middle contacts of the 3 way switch swapped too. I reversed these, now I don't zero out on any thing but the middle to ground on the output jack. I keep getting a reading of 3.8?...
OK, I followed the PBG RCA-4 wiring diagram. All went well, in regards to soldering it up.
I actually got sound once complete.
But... my pots where reverse, clockwise went off, counter clock was...