Originally Posted by
Simon Barden
Some P90s have metal covers, but in this case, it’s plastic one. But the metal base plate is grounded, and you don’t want the signal connected to it or it will get really noisy. P90s aren’t the quietest of pickups to start with. The base plate is normally either grounded by directly soldering it to the braid of the output cable, or sometimes a metal clip soldered to the braid which is screwed to the baseplate. Not the easiest of jobs to separate the two and add a separate ground wire.
So you could swap the signal and ground wires on the bridge pickup instead, as it’s normally just a matter of snipping a wire from the ground to the baseplate (if you don’t want to desolder it). Just a slight modification to the switch wiring.