Just Curious

SmutVendetta

I put my new pups in my Jaguar a couple days ago, everything works fine, sounds great, but, the switch system is now backwards. Up controls the lower volume/tone knob. Down now switches to the upper horn controls. Why, how did that happen? Can I switch it back?

Joey

Did ya mix up the pickups as you wired it? Some times you can have problems with your switches, may just be as simple as reversing the ground/hot wire, it depends. But a simple fix, may just be unscrewing the switch and flipping it around.

Fran

Sounds like you've wired the hot wires to the wrong points, swapping them over should solve it.

SmutVendetta

I did exactly what the Seymour Duncan diagram told me to do.

Neck pup = Black - ground. Yellow top control, soldered to the same spot I cut the other from. Bridge pup black - ground, blue soldered to same spot I snipped the other wire from. And of course grounding the pickup to the claw.

I kept the bridge pup in the box as I worked on the neck pup, triple checked that I was working with the right pup before I started.

I don't think it's the wrong way around. Two black wires on each pup, unlike the yellow and blue, so I'm pretty sure black = ground, as also indicated by the diagram. Which is what I did...

I like the switching the switch idea. Like I said, it sounds perfect, just, backwards compared to how it was functioning before.

SmutVendetta

Actually...now that I think about it, I think I accidentally unscrewed the switch when I was taking off the plate and probably put it in upside down. Wow. I think, I'm possibly retarded.

Fran

Are you 4real? 😆

Joey

***Mind of Mencia - retard*** ---> de-de-dee 😆

If I had a dollar for every time I installed something upside down, backwards or else. I keep a small amp in the garage, when I finish wiring something, I plug the electronic into the amp and check it with a tuning fork... if I made any mistakes I don't have to pull all the parts off the guitar again.

SmutVendetta

I just may be Fran!

lol I wish I had a dollar for that too. Bridge pops out, and I put it on backwards...lots of work when you got strings in the way. Fortunately to fix this, it doesn't require any of that.

I tried it, then I switched it back because nothing was coming through the amp, didn't think to check the cord I was using. When I switched it back then the sound started coming through, then it started going out, and it was then I realized it was the cord, so I'm going to switch it back once more and find out! 😆