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I have fitted a Pearly Gates Plus to my 2003 standard American Strat , the resulting sound is quite weak and not as powerful as I thought.
I essentially soldered the red amp; white together and wired this as per SD's schematic. The black and green were wired as per SD's schematic aswell.
I haven't touched any tone controls or capacitor's from the original Strat wiring. Could the pickup be out of phase.
Pickup sounds just as strong in position 1 as in position 2, even though it is tapped in position 2?

Help please....!

welcome to the forum!!

sounds like the pup is split the whole time. there is probably a bad connection some where so check to make sure the red/white connection isnt touching anything its not supposed to and make sure that the hot and ground wires has a good solder joint

Get a ohmmeter and measure a the tip and the sleeve of the cable while the humbucker is on. I should be round 8.5k If it is half or less see above post.

Are you getting hum or noise when the PG is selected by itself?

Thanks Guys, I'll give it a go.

I have since swapped the hot wires over. ie. green to hot and black to earth, just in case there was a phase problem. The PG sounded great in pos.1 but 2 amp; 4 were clearly out of phase - very weak nasal sound..!
I'll swap them back and see if it was just a poor solder initially..!

Thanks again, hopefully this questioned hasn't been asked too many times in the past..!

Cheers from Scotland...!