tommy87

Did somebody try to connect original pickups in parallel mode(shielding and white wire together and red wire as the signal one)? How does it sound? Since the impedance of single stock pickup is 7k, then impedance in this way should be 1/3,5k+1/3,5k)=1/?.....1,75k. Isnt this value too low and signal too weak?

ok, so while we left pickups passive, there is no problem with scratchy blend pot. but this annoying noise is there in both cases, even with everything grounded, what i've tried. when the trebble pot is lowered to minimum, the noise is gone too. so the last thing that comes to my mind is to make the guitar, for this purpose, passive, so bypass whole electronics and battery circuit. i'm pretty courious if it will be humming even with this diagram too. if yes, then it's pickups where is the problem, if not, the electronics is noisy, so change will be the best way.. edit: yesterday i tried to bypass the electronics and my bass remained deadly quiet after that. So the verdict sounds that we've got s shity electronics in there. im gonna order some new parts and completely rebuild my t-bird to passive, i didnt like so much trebble and bass after some time anyway. what i want is to make 1x volume pot, 1x balance pot and 2x tone pot, for each pickup separatelly. there is option to buy one push/pull pot and make it switchable between power supplied and non-power supplied pickups. so this is my next job as soon as my next sallary will come :P

did it scratch before you've connected red wires? i dont remember that.. i shielded pickup holes, but didnt have chance to test it well yet, so im courious if it helped or not, but i didnt notice any noise during this concert tour, we will see in the noisy training room

i have tried solder red ones to battery + and ground literally everything with paying attention not to make any ground loop but it didnt solve my problem with humming :( the hum i get sounds like 50hz, that we have in electric network here in slovakia. does anyone know how to get rid of this? by the way, it sounds to me like its a shielding problem, cuz the hum changes as i am moving, but since there is this "special" shielding paint everywhere, it should be fine. one more thing comes into my mind, that maybe pickup holes arent shielded, so i am considering a brand new shielding of whole t-bird at the moment and dont rely up on the manufacturer..