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HEadoftheAges

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Issues with my Miracle Man bridge
« on: September 02, 2016, 09:52:18 PM »
I have gone through three different bridge pickups over the last six months, and ever since I first decided to gut the stock seymour duncans in my ESP LTD Elite Horizon III (Maple Neck-through, alder body, maple top, ebony board, floyd rose), each bridge pickup (Guitarmory LTD Tsarbomba - Alnico 8, Avedissian Railsplitter - Ceramic 8, and the Miracle Man, in order) i have put in there has exhibited the same characteristic: it sounds thin and hollow, almost like an active single coil.  Palm mutes have no definition or weight behind them, pick scr@pes lack harmonics.

I had opted for a 550k pot in the volume position and a 500k push push pot in the tone knob.  My tech says he followed every step as far as the wiring diagram is concerned, and even tried wiring it a different way, which alleviated the issue only slightly (a little more bite).  The tone is still "wrong". Could it be something to do with the push push knob? I just find it so odd that all three of the pickups would exhibit the same characteristics. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Alec
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Re: Issues with my Miracle Man bridge
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2016, 10:34:18 PM »
sounds like something is wrong with the electronics

how is the guitar setup? string action and pickup height?
higher action tends to improve the thickness, loudness and sustain
and having the pickup close to strings will thicken up the low end and mids
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Re: Issues with my Miracle Man bridge
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2016, 10:42:51 PM »
Are all grounds connected together?
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Re: Issues with my Miracle Man bridge
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2016, 05:26:05 PM »
The action is pretty much perfect for the tuning I use for this guitar (Open B).  I am going to try to play around with pickup height after I get it rewired back to spec and the push push pot replaced with the other BK 550k pot.

I find it odd that height would be the issue with all three of the bridge pickups I tried, however. This has been a huge headache. It's not as if the Miracle Man is ill-suited to the instrument, either. By all accounts it should be perfect.

Bear in mind, the neck pickups have always been perfect. I currently have an Avedissian Scythe in the neck and it works wonderfully.

- Alec
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