DJ East Retro - sound query

[Jamolah]

Hi guys.

So I installed an East DJ-retro preamp in my Lakland DJ5 this week, and have noticed a funny affect it's had on my sound; when in "passive balance" pickup mode the sound seems to thin out, lose a fair bit of volume and goes kind of hollow-sounding (very different from the sound of the old passive system with both knobs full). Same when the rotary control is dialled in the centre. Either pickup on its own sounds perfectly normal, and the blending seems to be pretty smooth too (very happy with the sound of the preamp, as it happens, when switching between pickups). I thought I'd ask on here to see if anybody else has experienced this, wether or not it's something inherent in DJ's or if it's maybe a fault with either my installation or my pickups or something.

Any advice appreciated! Cheers, Basschatterers...

[geoffbyrne]

Sounds as tho they may have been accidentally wired out of phase. To fix it reverse the conductors on one of the pickups.

[Jamolah]

Ah! Had a feeling it might've been some thing like that. Will give it a go when I get back in and let you know.

Cheers!

[Jamolah]

Sure enough: swapped the wires rounds on the bridge pickup and everything's sounding sweet! Whoever shipped the package had mislabeled the hot-and-cold colours for the bridge pickup (I did think it was weird that the two 'cold' wires were different...). Thanks for the tip-off.

[geoffbyrne]

I love it when a plan comes together!!!!

G.