Hello to everyone,
I am new to the changing pickups thing, and i just recieved my first BK pickup yesterday, a beautiful manhattan P90.
So far, i just installed the pickup and didn't touched to the tone pot and everything works fine, but i experience a volume bleed then i turn down the tone (this problem was there before the pickup change, but i thought i could be able to sort it out when changing the pickup if is was something obvious like a bad soldering joint or something like that, but it turns out i could not sort it out).
I thought that it could be caused by
- the cap value.
- the wiring scheme.. i noticed that the wiring of my guitar doesn't follow tim's scheme: the tone cap is between the right lug of the tone pot, and grounded directly, instead of being between the volume and tone pot.
- bad sodler joint. but i think that's not it since the tone control works, i just have to turn the volume up when the tone is on 0 to keep the same volume.
I have read that a bad cap value could cause that on the warmoth forum, but i was not able to identify my cap value with what's written onto it, i thought maybe someone could help so i took a pic. The pic shows you the stock cap that i have currently in my guitar.
Any help or idea to fix that volume drop is appreciated :)
Best
Arnaud
p.s. As far as the pickup goes, i soldered it this morning before going to work and only played 10 mins before leaving, but it seems extremely balanced and sounds great. In fact, with my old pups (gibson classic 57) i had a parametric EQ always on to add highs and medium highs, and i have the same kind of sound now, without the EQ, only with better dynamics and subtelty. and i have not played with the pickup height yet..
