superhand
October 29th, 2009, 10:05 PM
I need some help with the wiring on my SX STL 50. Yesterday I took of the control plate to check out the pots and the wiring... blah blah blah, to make a long story short, one of the wires popped off due to a very lousy soldering job ($109 guitar made in China, so I'm not that surprised or dissapointed) so I soldered it back in place to where I thought it came from. I plugged it in to see if it worked, and I was getting sound out of it so I was satisfied.
Now today I plug it in and it sounds like my tone knob is backwards, in other words, I get more treble when I turn it down (counter clockwise) and it doesn't sound as bright as it did before, anywhere I put the tone knob. Before it had so much treble I would almost always turn the tone down at least a little bit.
What happened? Everything worked fine before. The volume knob works fine, the pickup switch works fine, its just the tone knob that I am having a problem with. I found a wiring diagram for standard tele type wiring but it is obviously not the same as the SXs.
Here is a picture, the wire that came off was the red wire going to the middle post on the tone knob, that is where it came off on the tone knob.
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/2953/dsc01712m.jpg
Now today I plug it in and it sounds like my tone knob is backwards, in other words, I get more treble when I turn it down (counter clockwise) and it doesn't sound as bright as it did before, anywhere I put the tone knob. Before it had so much treble I would almost always turn the tone down at least a little bit.
What happened? Everything worked fine before. The volume knob works fine, the pickup switch works fine, its just the tone knob that I am having a problem with. I found a wiring diagram for standard tele type wiring but it is obviously not the same as the SXs.
Here is a picture, the wire that came off was the red wire going to the middle post on the tone knob, that is where it came off on the tone knob.
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/2953/dsc01712m.jpg
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