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I recently got the pickups i ordered: Duncan distortion trembucker and two hot rails. I`ve got 1tone 1vol and a five way selector from my old jackson dinky. I hav`nt found any chematics just right for this, i tried the one for 1 humbucker and two single coils, 1tone 1 vol and the five way switch from : localhost//forum/images/attach/jpg.gif , instead of using the white leads from the singles I used the black hot ones from the hot rails, soldered the red and white together and soldered green and blank to ground on both, same with the trembucker. Did i do the right thing? Ive got some sound, but its very very noisy, and low output . maybe its just the grounding that`s abit out of wack? bad soldering maybe? I`ve installed mics before, but it was active emg`s, so i did`nt have to think much about grounding and stuff. I dont have very much experience, but I really wanna learn more, so i dont wanna just bring it to the store.

Oh, and, the hot rails, they look abit different. One has a base plate, the other one does`nt, and its taller. Are they exactly the same? If not, which one should be in neck/middle ?

All help very much appreciated!


Originally Posted by SaymZI recently got the pickups i ordered: Duncan distortion trembucker and two hot rails. I`ve got 1tone 1vol and a five way selector from my old jackson dinky. I hav`nt found any chematics just right for this, i tried the one for 1 humbucker and two single coils, 1tone 1 vol and the five way switch from : localhost//forum/images/attach/jpg.gif , instead of using the white leads from the singles I used the black hot ones from the hot rails, soldered the red and white together and soldered green and blank to ground on both, same with the trembucker. Did i do the right thing? Ive got some sound, but its very very noisy, and low output . maybe its just the grounding that`s abit out of wack? bad soldering maybe? I`ve installed mics before, but it was active emg`s, so i did`nt have to think much about grounding and stuff. I dont have very much experience, but I really wanna learn more, so i dont wanna just bring it to the store.

Oh, and, the hot rails, they look abit different. One has a base plate, the other one does`nt, and its taller. Are they exactly the same? If not, which one should be in neck/middle ?

All help very much appreciated!

The Schematic and the way you wired it are the right ones, good thinking

It may be a ground problem or a cold solder Joint that´s causing your problem, but it would have to be on a quot;sharedquot; part like one of the pots, the switch output or the jack.... I´d have to see it, sorry....

As far as the hotrails, the formfactor was changed a few months ago, so vo almost certainly got one old one and one new one...the one w/ the baseplate is the older formfactor, but the pickup within should be identical


Originally Posted by ZerberusThe Schematic and the way you wired it are the right ones, good thinking

It may be a ground problem or a cold solder Joint that´s causing your problem, but it would have to be on a quot;sharedquot; part like one of the pots, the switch output or the jack.... I´d have to see it, sorry....

As far as the hotrails, the formfactor was changed a few months ago, so vo almost certainly got one old one and one new one...the one w/ the baseplate is the older formfactor, but the pickup within should be identical

I`ll try re solder the ones that may be causing trouble, hopefully it will clean it up.

Thanks man


Originally Posted by SaymZI`ll try re solder the ones that may be causing trouble, hopefully it will clean it up.

Thanks man

It worked! =D I`m working on grounding and stuff now, there`s still quite some noise with distortion on.