Pickup Help

Libtoem

Ok so have a seymour duncan hot rail pickup for the bridge,the problem is the pick up has way to much treble and I mean alot even with 250k pots is still way to much.I threw in another pickup just to make sure and its sounds great with the 250k pots.So is my hot rail pickup messed up,I installed it correctly as I have JB JR which is the same wiring.

Any help would be great.

BanditGuitarist1

maybe 500K would help? it could be you just dont like the tone of the pickup

Libtoem

Well my strat did have 500k pots when I threw the pickup in,it was way to much treble so I got some 250k pots,it made no difference at all between the 500 pots and the 250 pots with the pickup in so Im out of idea's.The pickup is for strats with 250k pots.

nirvana23freak

EQ/roll off the tone pot?

Libtoem

I tried that and many settings on my amp,still sounded like shi't for the most.I think the pickup is screwed up,oh well.

nirvana23freak

yeah, dont know what to tell you

AnotherTool

I wouldn't have thought that the pickup was faulty in anyway.

Do you know what value of capacitor you have in this guitar?

If you have 250k pots, and the other pickups sound fine, then you'll have to change the capacitor out for a bassier one to counteract the hotness of the rail.

tragictravisty

changing pots to a higher value will accomplish the exact same thing. caps are cheaper though. but with a pot you get more range.

Libtoem

I got it working,just had to rewire it again.Well I really don't like the pickup,not my taste for the most,the distortion it gives out it pretty weak in my book.But on the other hand Im getting a Dimarzio Super Distortion and a Dimarzio X2N so I'll be happy with that.