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  1. Hi all, and thank you so much for helping me. Right after christmas i was offered a job in Norway, beginning in 21 january, so I was busy arranging things before going. I did´nt bring my bass, but I will continue trying to get the preamp installed correctly, when I get back in a couple of months. Henrik
  2. Thank you, I will try to figure out how to upload photos during next week, so I can show how it looks now.
  3. From each of the MEC pickups there is one white wire, which have a smaller wire in the middle, and braided around it. And a red wire. From the pickup springs there is a wire, which must be ground. There is a similar wire coming from the bridge. so 3 in all. I had some copper shield-tape, which I shielded the cavity with. I soldered the 3 ground wires from the pickups and bridge AND the black wire from the jack, in one point on the shielded cavity. I tried something different, thinking that it might be something with the batterypowered pickups that are causing the no sound. I installed a noname passive precision pickup, removing the MEC p-pickup first of course. But..... no sound! so now what could the problem be? The bridge pickup is not wired to the preamp now. the ground wires, including the wire from the jack are still connected to the cavity. The battery has power. Could it be a grounding problem? or maybe it´s the preamp that does not work... Sorry about all my questions, if I had the money I would go to a guitartech, but soo it´s expensive...
  4. Thanks for your responses. How it was before: The red wires from the pickups where connected with a red wire from the battery and red wire from the preamp. They were soldered together at.Thats why I believe them to be active, and the red wires to be power. the white wires from the pickups was soldered to one of the pots. From this point, two smaller white wires went to two different connectors/pins (?) on the same pot, and a non-insulated wire went to two other pots (this I believe is ground).
  5. And still no sound... I soldered the ground wires from both the pickups and the bridge to the same point on the cavity. And put the power wires from the pickups directly into the preamp, where the power from the battery goes. The wire from the neck pickup was´nt long enough, so I made it longer with some leftover wire. I still have the ACG jack connected, I will use the Warwick barrel jack, when it works with the ACG. Soo... what could the problem be? I think the problem might be the active pickups, because it needs power, and because there is only one wire for the sound from each pickup. As far as I remember there are always two wires from passive pickups. maybe I did it wrong. It is the two white wires you can see. There is one smaller wire inside, surrounded by insulation(?) metal. I put the wire from the middle into the hot input on the preamp, and soldered some extra wire to the metal that is around, leading this to the cold input. I saw a guy do it here http://www.finnbass.com/showthread.php?t=4030 But no sound...so what could the problem be?
  6. Thanks for your reply I did´nt use the warwick jack, because I could´nt figure out how it should be connected. So right now it´s the ACG jack that are connected, like it says in the manual. But of course I want to use the Warwick jack, since it fits the bass. I will take a look on the bass again when I come home. If i can´t make it work, I will post some pictures of how it looks. Thanks
  7. [b]Anyone with a Warwick Streamer Stage 1 with MEC´s and ACG/East preamp out there? Or someone who can help?[/b] How did You install the preamp? I just bought a used ACG/East EQ 02 preamp, which I want to install in my Warwick Streamer Stage 1 from 1992. It´s pretty easy to follow the instructions from ACG, but need help now, since I can´t get a sound out of the bass. There are som issues that I don´t know how to solve, and that might be the causes that there is no sound: 1. The MEC pickups are active, so they need power. What would you recommend me to do here? Do I need a special kind of wire to make it work? I did connect the red wires from the pickups to the red wire from the battery clip, then connecting these to the preamp, where the power has to go. But, no sound.. 2. The Jack socket that somes with the ACG/East preamp does not fit in the hole where the original Warwick jack socket has been (this socket is longer than the ACG/East socket). Plus there are 4 wires on the ACG/East jack socket, but only 2 on the Warwick jack socket. I want to use the Warwick socket (maybe replacing it with a swithcraft), but what to do with the 4 wires, where do they go? The manual for the installation is here: http://www.acguitars.co.uk/docs/eq02Manual2009.pdf
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