help with pg's

[duanesworld]

Hi, I just bought a set of pgs and had my tech put them in a ibanez as50. The bridge sounded great, the neck was thin and had no low output. He disconnected it and wired the pickup to just a jack and plugged it in amp, and it still sounded thin and weak. he measured it and it was 7.1., does anybody have any suggestions?thanks,Mike

[duanesworld]

ok .

[maverickf1jockey]

Did you have four conductor wiring?

If so it might be worth taking a look to see if you have soldered the right wires to the right posts on the selector and the pots just to be sure.

[duanesworld]

just regular braid. thanks

[kellar]

I have had nearly every problem imaginable with pickup wiring. Weak signal, no signal, cuts out, thin, whatever. Obviously that doesn't say much about my soldering skills. :(

But, I have fixed the problem 99% of the time by resoldering everything very carefully, making sure each point is firm and properly grounded. It can be frustrating, but in my experience the problem is almost always a bad/improperly soldered joint or bad ground.

[duanesworld]

thanks. I would agree, but after just connecting it to a jack and bypassing everything and its still sounds the same, I don't believe its the soldering.

[TwilightOdyssey]

It's possible (but not probable) that one of the coils is broken/shorted. Did you contact BK directly about this yet? If not, you should do so -- they have the best customer service around! Let us know what happens!!

[kellar]

thanks. I would agree, but after just connecting it to a jack and bypassing everything and its still sounds the same, I don't believe its the soldering.

Right, than that would suggest that perhaps you have a faulty pickup. I agree with the above, I would definitely give Tim a call.

[viking]

I recently bought a VH2 set and one of the coils (neck pup) was broken.My luthier didn't know if he was responsible but he send it back to BKP.It took a few weeks but they fixed it.