roonjuice Posted November 6, 2008 Posted November 6, 2008 hi guys, i have a beautiful 1977 jazz that plays like butter BUT, the neck pickup has a low output. (the bridge sounds ace!) i bought another set of 77 pups and dropped them in and exactly the same thing occurred!!! this was wiring them straight to the jack, in all possible configurations, and ive swapped the signal leads and the ground leads to the pickup and everything, and now im proper stuck!! also the tone pot dosen't seem to do a lot! please help me guys!! it eems unlikley that 2 sets ov pickups would do the same thing Quote
lateralus462 Posted November 6, 2008 Posted November 6, 2008 [quote name='roonjuice' post='323526' date='Nov 6 2008, 04:19 PM']hi guys, i have a beautiful 1977 jazz that plays like butter BUT, the neck pickup has a low output. (the bridge sounds ace!) i bought another set of 77 pups and dropped them in and exactly the same thing occurred!!! this was wiring them straight to the jack, in all possible configurations, and ive swapped the signal leads and the ground leads to the pickup and everything, and now im proper stuck!! also the tone pot dosen't seem to do a lot! please help me guys!! it eems unlikley that 2 sets ov pickups would do the same thing[/quote] Did you try raising the pickup height? Quote
roonjuice Posted November 6, 2008 Author Posted November 6, 2008 been to a techy, it metered pretty normal apparently. the techie (a well respected pro) was also puzzled anyone else got any ideas? Quote
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