GFS Neovin - very weak neck pickup

Hey guys,

I just wired up my new Neovins and at first I thought the neck pickup was wired incorrectly or even that the solder joints were bad. After some investigation, the pickup is wired up, but has almost zero output. If I crank my amp up, I get sound, but at a good volume for the other pickups, I dont' get anything.

Any ideas? Is it just a bad pickup?

Those need to be really super close to the strings to get any real output, as I believe the instructions say. See if that cures the problem.

Yeah, I read that too. I had it the same height as the other pickups, which were giving great output. I contacted Jay at GuitarFetish though and we worked it out. They do need to be close though!

I remember hearing the poles, which don't sense string movement, are actually constructed of brass. Brass poles would induce substantial amounts of eddy currents into the pickup that destroy the tone and output.

If you can take the pickup out of its cover and remove the non-functioning poles, perhaps you can get a much more usable pickup. You might have to make friends with your tone controls if they tried to design the pickup around this : /

The poles are actually part of the whole pickup array, but in a different sense than the regular pickup magnets. These ones are part of the shielding and noisecancelling team, but are just staggered for appearances sake

Brass poles, really ?

i don't think they are brass

The poles are actually part of the whole pickup array, but in a different sense than the regular pickup magnets. These ones are part of the shielding and noisecancelling team, but are just staggered for appearances sake

Andy, can you explain how they're part of the noise-canceling design?

Now that you got your problem fixed, how do those puppies sound?

Andy, can you explain how they're part of the noise-canceling design?


I really don't know how it all works together. This is just what I've read from the GFS website and from some posts Jay made on Harmony Central