hi everyone,
first of all sorry if there is already a similar thread, but i couldn't find anything that helps me...
what my problem is: i've had a guitar with seymour duncan passive pickups and i wanted to change the bridge pickup with an EMG 81. i only have 2 pots, so i could find out that i have to have 2 volume pots and no tone pots, and that works fine for me. the emg pickup came as solderless version which confused me in the beginning, but i could manage to make the emg work. the problem is that if i switch to the neck pickup, the seymour duncan is buzzing. so the active emg works, the passive seymour duncan doesnt.
this is how i wired my passive pickup: reffering to this Wiring Diagram i just put the red and white cable together and didnt solder them anywhere (do the wires have to have contact or aren't they supposed to have contact or does it even matter?). the green and the bare wire are soldered to my volume pot and the black wire is soldered to the input loop of my volume pot. there also is a connection from the green and bare wires to the third loop of my volume pot. from the output loop and from the green and bare wires on top of my volume pot i have 2 wires connected to the emg battery bus https://www.emgpickups.com/content/wiringdiagrams/B157_0230-0113E.pdf which was included with the emg pickup.
there is one thing which surprises me. before i put the emg in it, i had 2 passive pickups, 1 volume, 1 tone pot and a 5 way switch. i dont know if i can compare my guitar with the following diagram, but i think that comes close to this Wiring Diagram . i guess the black one is the output right? the red and white go into the switch and the green and bare wire go to the volume pot. the thing which suprises me is that on my guitar, the black was the output, the red and green went into the switch and the white and bare wire were connected to the volume pot. as i already said, i don't know if you can compare these 2 diagrams, but i was just confused that my white wire and the bare wire went on the volume pot and now, reffering to this wiring diagram, i suddenly have to put the white and red together and the green and the bare wire go to the volume pot...
and another thing is that i didnt connect the ground bridge wire from bridge anywhere because here https://www.emgpickups.com/content/wiringdiagrams/H_0230-0106D.pdf at important installation notes they say DO NOT connect the bridge ground wire.
i dont know if my text is too confusing, if you have questions just ask me.
some help would be awesome, almost struggling a week now -.-
thx in advance!
regards,
olf
first of all sorry if there is already a similar thread, but i couldn't find anything that helps me...
what my problem is: i've had a guitar with seymour duncan passive pickups and i wanted to change the bridge pickup with an EMG 81. i only have 2 pots, so i could find out that i have to have 2 volume pots and no tone pots, and that works fine for me. the emg pickup came as solderless version which confused me in the beginning, but i could manage to make the emg work. the problem is that if i switch to the neck pickup, the seymour duncan is buzzing. so the active emg works, the passive seymour duncan doesnt.
this is how i wired my passive pickup: reffering to this Wiring Diagram i just put the red and white cable together and didnt solder them anywhere (do the wires have to have contact or aren't they supposed to have contact or does it even matter?). the green and the bare wire are soldered to my volume pot and the black wire is soldered to the input loop of my volume pot. there also is a connection from the green and bare wires to the third loop of my volume pot. from the output loop and from the green and bare wires on top of my volume pot i have 2 wires connected to the emg battery bus https://www.emgpickups.com/content/wiringdiagrams/B157_0230-0113E.pdf which was included with the emg pickup.
there is one thing which surprises me. before i put the emg in it, i had 2 passive pickups, 1 volume, 1 tone pot and a 5 way switch. i dont know if i can compare my guitar with the following diagram, but i think that comes close to this Wiring Diagram . i guess the black one is the output right? the red and white go into the switch and the green and bare wire go to the volume pot. the thing which suprises me is that on my guitar, the black was the output, the red and green went into the switch and the white and bare wire were connected to the volume pot. as i already said, i don't know if you can compare these 2 diagrams, but i was just confused that my white wire and the bare wire went on the volume pot and now, reffering to this wiring diagram, i suddenly have to put the white and red together and the green and the bare wire go to the volume pot...
and another thing is that i didnt connect the ground bridge wire from bridge anywhere because here https://www.emgpickups.com/content/wiringdiagrams/H_0230-0106D.pdf at important installation notes they say DO NOT connect the bridge ground wire.
i dont know if my text is too confusing, if you have questions just ask me.
some help would be awesome, almost struggling a week now -.-
thx in advance!
regards,
olf
