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Post subject: Help Pickups Sound Horrible
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 7:33 pm
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I put in a set of Fender Vintage 65's in my MIA today and they sound horrible. Don't know if it's something I did installing them or what. They sound very metallic. I did goof something up though I'm not sure how. I followed the instructions but somehow the middle position is not working. What could I have done to have that happen?


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Post subject: Re: Help Pickups Sound Horrible
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 12:12 am
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PU too close to the strings,

Midlle PU : wrong wiring or bad solder


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Post subject: Re: Help Pickups Sound Horrible
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 2:22 am
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What year and model MIA? Does it have any special wiring?

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Post subject: Re: Help Pickups Sound Horrible
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 6:41 am
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2015 MIA. No special wiring.


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Post subject: Re: Help Pickups Sound Horrible
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 12:04 pm
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Do we get to see a photo of the patient on the table and opened up?
Even better a series of photos - they'll show us more than your description tells us.

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Post subject: Re: Help Pickups Sound Horrible
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 1:06 pm
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stratmangler wrote:
Do we get to see a photo of the patient on the table and opened up?
Even better a series of photos - they'll show us more than your description tells us.



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Post subject: Re: Help Pickups Sound Horrible
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 1:45 pm
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Thanks, great idea having photos however I opened it up this morning to see what I could see, re-soldered a couple of places and closed her back up. All I get from that middle pick up is static. At first I thought it was a loose connection to the lug on the switch but that wasn't it. If I had my other guitar here I'd open it again but it's all I have to play with until my other is finished at the shop. Playing acoustic is better than nothing at all. Not much, but better.


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Post subject: Re: Help Pickups Sound Horrible
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 4:20 pm
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The first step after checking the obvious ( your wiring etc) is to measure the dc resistance of the pickup which should be around 6 kohm. If this is ok then select it on the switch (mid position only) and ensure you have continuity from the top tag on the volume control thru the switch and pickup also measure from the top tag on the vol pot to gnd and you should still have around the 6 k to ensure you have no shorts.
Pickups can go open e.g. broken wire , partially short where for some reason the insulation on the wire has broken down or finally intermittent where the pickup works sometimes well and sometimes not often due to either of the above.
Watch out also for the fine wire running from the solder eyelet to the pickup. Some accidentally break this while installing the pickup or cover. This will measure a very high resistance and virtually no output.
Conversely if you have somehow accidentally shorted the pickup e.g. solder dag , crushed wire and the like this will lend itself to a much lower than expected resistance. This will lead to a very low output.
Fault finding is straight forward but difficult to do remotely often because the information required is either not available or is presented incorrectly. :D


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