Common Pickup Installation Issues
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- In this video, we go through some of the real-world issues that we regularly see with pickup wiring installations. Hopefully this will help to shortcut you to a perfect result, first time! Of course, this isn't an exhaustive list, but it covers some of the issues which we know people come up against regularly.
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Thanks a lot for sharing! I've done few guitar mods and have found these problems as well but I didn't know what they were until now. The cheap soldering wire really bugged me just like in the video. The quality one with more flux in the core seems to be able to help my job done much easier.
Oh, as a BKP customer, love your Aftermath a lot Tim!!
Thanks for taking the the time to do this!
We hope that it's useful, plenty more to come!
Inspiring. Thank you.
Really great video guys. Would love to see more of this kind stuff 🙂
We're definitely planning to post more tutorials and more RUclips content in general. When things get back to "normal" we have all sorts planned!
Very useful, thank you for posting. Just one question: which temperature should be adecuate on soldering iron for guitar electronics?. On your video it seems that the soldering iron was set to 400ºC. Is that fine?
It's going to depend a little on the specific melting point of the solder that you use. I personally prefer to run the iron pretty hot and work as fast as possible, which minimises the total amount of heat that you're applying. On the units that we use, 400 degrees is about right
@@BKPickups Thank you very much for the reply
Hi! Thanks very much for this. Just one thing, does it make a difference if the black and bare wires are soldered together and grounded, or do they have to be grounded seperately? (as at 5:03) :) Thanks in advance!
Hi Dan, depending on the setup, the black and bare are usually both grounded, so, in most cases, you can ground them together
I have a FAT 50 Neck on my Telecaster. It has about 6.8k Dc Resistance. Could you use 500k pots? Do you recommend it for this capsule?
Greetings
You can definitely tailor the sound of a pickup by choosing the pot value. 500k pots with a traditional singlecoil can be a little bit bright for a lot of people, but if the overall setup of the guitar makes it particularly dark, then that higher pot resistance could be a good option.
what if the baseplate of the humbucker doesn't match the screw holes of the pickgaurd exactly. can you bend them, or do you need to have new holes drilled/a new pickgaurd made?
Most humbuckers fitments are pretty universal, but if you need to adjust things, there is some maleability in the metal of a baseplate, so you certainly can slightly bend them if you are careful. Some humbucker fitments use a double hole on one side of the pickup (ours are all single hole) and for that, you really need to use an adapter, or drill a new hole in the pickguard.
@@BKPickups awesome thank you for the info
Perhaps i just reach out via email, i just got 2 new pots and pair of bkp's installed in my guitar, this was two trips to a guitar tech, 1st time to install pickups, then 2nd time to install new pots and a cap. 2nd time i got my guitar back worse then when i dropped it off, when i switch to my neck(cobra) at full volume i get almost no signal, this is all being tested with high gain. What usually gets it working is switching from the neck pickup to position 4 and then back, its so weird. People are telling me to spray the switch with contact cleaner but i fear the "tech" just installed them wrong.
Hi Nate, check to see if your blade switch is hitting the guitar before it fully clicks into the 5th position. Sometimes you just need to slightly lengthen the slot that the switch sit in, to allow it to reach its full range of movement.