Be cautious! I've been using this guitar for a week now and absolutely LOVED it, yet I've noticed that there's a major, electronic flaw with it. After noticing that there's an obvious pick-up sound bleed between the bridge & neck (where the active pickup gets the sound of the inactive one), I've made some changes. First, I changed the switch, and then I got a new pick-up for the bridge thinking that they might be microphonic, and also shielded the cavities, however, none of them helped. Then I noticed that the connection over the PCB where 2 pots and all the rest are gathered, is just incorrectly designed. It's different than the 4-wire default schematics. To be more precise; the connections on the Volume pot are wrong, lug 1 and lug 2 must be swapped in between, lug 3 is gnd anyway, tone control is also correct. I've removed the pots from the PCB and mounted them on the guitar directly, made the harness as it should be, and voila, everything is working great! I don't know how Donner made such a mistake, but god knows how many guitars with this PCB are on sale / sold already.
Be cautious!
I've been using this guitar for a week now and absolutely LOVED it, yet I've noticed that there's a major, electronic flaw with it.
After noticing that there's an obvious pick-up sound bleed between the bridge & neck (where the active pickup gets the sound of the inactive one), I've made some changes.
First, I changed the switch, and then I got a new pick-up for the bridge thinking that they might be microphonic, and also shielded the cavities, however, none of them helped. Then I noticed that the connection over the PCB where 2 pots and all the rest are gathered, is just incorrectly designed. It's different than the 4-wire default schematics. To be more precise; the connections on the Volume pot are wrong, lug 1 and lug 2 must be swapped in between, lug 3 is gnd anyway, tone control is also correct.
I've removed the pots from the PCB and mounted them on the guitar directly, made the harness as it should be, and voila, everything is working great!
I don't know how Donner made such a mistake, but god knows how many guitars with this PCB are on sale / sold already.
How do you adjust the pickups?