I just wired a previously-working pickguard and pickups into a new Strat build, transplanting it whole. I changed nothing in the wiring apart from running on two new wires to the jack socket. Now the volume does nothing until the very last part of its travel.
I must have wired something up wrong. What’s most likely? I wired the jack cup backwards? Thats the easiest to fix, because I have to take the neck off to remove the pickguard.
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The bridge pickup is wired into the middle pickup’s tone control (it controls both).
The gitar has a treble bleed mod added (not by me)
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Playing with it a bit more, it seems that the top end — tone-wise — is reduced slightly as I turn it down.
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Anything else?
That is the definite cause of the symptom you're describing though.
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Another symptom is that the guitar sounds muddy, even into a Princeton reverb.
Damn, strats are a pain to work on. I can’t believe you have to remove the neck to get into it.
Thanks for for the help. I never would have found that on my own.
It's a total pain on my fender bass that the neck has to come off to adjust the truss rod but on any Strat I've seen, there's never been a need to take the neck off to access the pickguard or electronics.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein