Hi there guys ! I received my NBs yesterday and i finally felt what it's like to hold that little box in your hands with your pups waiting to get installed ! :D Mine,however,didn't have to wait for more than half a day...i installed them last night :) Well...at least TRIED to install them.After consulting various schematics and one of my cousins who knows his way around electronics i ended up having a perfectly working bridge pickup and a perfectly dead neck pickup ! :P
Even though i had installed pups before,this time things got a little complicated because i encountered a couple of first timers...a push/pull pot and a dual concentric pot.I have a killswitch installed where the neck tone pot used to be so i thought i'd use a concentric pot for both pickup volumes and in the remaining two holes i'd put the tone pots.I was also aiming to use the push/pull pot for the neck tone and also for coil splitting the neck pup.
The volume concentric pot seems to be working fine apart from the fact that even when it's turned down all the way i can still hear my guitar through the amp.I emailed Tim and he said there might be a ground connection leaking signal...but other than that i got two volume pots in one hole and i'm totally happy with it ! The bridge tone also works perfectly...the neck pickup is really giving me a hard time though.At first it was completely dead and i was sure it had something to do with the push/pull pot.So i asked for Tim's advice and he sent a couple of coil split schematics.
After correcting some obvious mistakes i had done i finally got the neck pup working.But another problem arised.The schematics Tim sent me were for a
volume pot wired with split coil whereas what i wanted was a
tone pot wired for coil split.So once again,the coil split is not working and neither is the tone control for the neck pup :( :( I'd really appreciate it if you guys could help me out before i get a professional take a look in my guitar.
So even though i was really bummed out by the wiring mess i made i thought i should at least play with my bridge pup.I was blown away !!!! :D :D Compared to the Emgs previously installed in my guitar(85-bridge,81-neck) the NBs sounded like taking the earplugs off ! They sound HUGE !!! :o I tune my guitar down to B and the EMGs sounded muddy and really devoid of any tonal character...the NBs retain AMAZING clarity while being as punchy as it gets ! Really big,open sound,heavy but not oversaturated,thick but not muddy ! I honestly couldn't even possibly hope my guitar would sound so good mainly because i had gotten used to the sound of the EMGs through the years and i trained myself into liking it.But nothing compares to actually listening the pups react to the way you play which is something that the EMGs were totally incapable of.Anyway ! I'll post some clips as soon as i get the wiring problems sorted out...'till then...here are a couple of pics of the NBs in my Epi ! :D
P.s.I know...that Ministry sticker doesn't look that good but it's been there a long time and i got emotionally attached to it ! :P :D
