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Good article on pickup simulation from AMZ-FX, written by guitar electronics guru Jack Orman. Basically you can use any pickup, simple enough right? He even makes reference to CBG’S & 3 pole CBG…Continue
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Hello everybody!Thought I'd drop these nuggets for anyone looking to wire (3) P90s into their guitars.First, the middle pickup must be reverse-wound, meaning you would wind the pickup clockwise. The…Continue
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Guys, after assembling yet another 3 stringer with one pick up, one volume pot, and one tone pot, something is amiss. Have never had this issue before. Static noise is heard when the guitar is…Continue
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BrianQ is right. Learning to check continuity with the ohm meter is a big part of this gig if you build amps or amplified guitars. I’ve had to learn it, it is easy once you try. Best of success
Red probe to positive on pickup, Black probe to ground, switch the selector to 20K ohm resistance. You should get a reading between 3K-8K? One thing to think about, cellphone jacks are stereo, output jacks on passive guitars are mono, that may be the problem, check your wiring again? Good luck
Thanks paul. battery is good...amp is loud when i use it to play music with my phone. i have checked over and over my wiring with several diagrams. I now think the pup coil may be bad. Its new, but who know. I think I may try the multimeter thing (but don't know how) and may even just hook up a piezo i have instead of the coil to check that the wiring on the tone/vol knobs is ok. Thanks again for your comment.
The amp is plenty enough power for a guitar. Guitar's with passive electronics work on milliamps, so a 9volt aamp is plenty of power.
Could be that the wires for the guitar hook up are reversed, something could be defective in that part of the amp circuit or the pickup could be defective.
Have you checked the pickup with a multimeter? Can you use the phone hook up with some kind of conversion plug adapter? Battery good and power getting to the amp circuit? any burn looking or smell to any components?
? I have a 'altoids' amp (9v battery, lm386 chip, speaker) works fine for speaker when hooked to my phone. Trying to wire up my first single coil pup electric. i tink wiring is good. but no sound from amp. Can a altoid type 9 volt amp work on a electric guitar? starting to think not enough juice to power it. i get no sound out of speaker.
Thanks David. Haha
Does anyone know what pot value works best for a piezo in a bass?
It could be a lot of things including his amp, his amp's power supply, guitar cord, effect pedals, wiring in his house or lighting in his house.
Something could've been knocked loose in shipping. Did you shield the inside of the box? Also if you use shielded wire or wrap the ground wire around the signal wires from pickup/piezo to the switch/pot and to the jack, you'll have a git that is practically hum free.
Some pickup's are so microphonic that putting them in a open box will result in squealing like a banshee. I've had to make a box tight around the pickup on a couple of occasions. On one build, I wrapped the sides and bottom of a pickup with fabric covered foam(shoulder pad from wife's old blouse), worked like a charm.
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