zachalexander
June 30th, 2012, 04:33 PM
So I replaced the stock pickups in the Tele I've had since I was a kid, with Area T stacked humbuckers, which I heard about here.
I think I did everything very carefully, and before stringing back up, I tested both pickups with the handle of my pliers, and confirmed I was getting sounds out of the amp as expected. I guess it's conceivable that I totally spaced out and forgot to test the neck pickup, but I'm pretty sure I tested it.
Anyway, by the time I got it back up to my room, screwed everything down, and put on new strings, the neck and middle position weren't working. The bridge works, and sounds great, but I get nothing from the other two positions.
What makes it really strange to me is that the bridge pickup works by itself, but not in middle position.
Here are some pictures -- I can't see anything that looks wrong to me, but I hope some of you folks have some good ideas. The only changes I made were replacing the yellow leads from the stock pickups with the red leads from the new ones, and switching out the ground wires as well.
The neck pickup, by the way, had both gray and green ground wires, which are both included in the main ground on the back of the volume control.
Thoughts?
I don't have a multimeter, but I'm heading out to Radio Shack right now to go get one so I can figure out what's going on.
I hope the pickup itself isn't broken....
I think I did everything very carefully, and before stringing back up, I tested both pickups with the handle of my pliers, and confirmed I was getting sounds out of the amp as expected. I guess it's conceivable that I totally spaced out and forgot to test the neck pickup, but I'm pretty sure I tested it.
Anyway, by the time I got it back up to my room, screwed everything down, and put on new strings, the neck and middle position weren't working. The bridge works, and sounds great, but I get nothing from the other two positions.
What makes it really strange to me is that the bridge pickup works by itself, but not in middle position.
Here are some pictures -- I can't see anything that looks wrong to me, but I hope some of you folks have some good ideas. The only changes I made were replacing the yellow leads from the stock pickups with the red leads from the new ones, and switching out the ground wires as well.
The neck pickup, by the way, had both gray and green ground wires, which are both included in the main ground on the back of the volume control.
Thoughts?
I don't have a multimeter, but I'm heading out to Radio Shack right now to go get one so I can figure out what's going on.
I hope the pickup itself isn't broken....
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