anibawl

Might I suggest contacting EMG for one of these. http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/equipment/546100-emg-solderless-conversion-kits.html I understand the kits are only $30. And will be $30 well spent. I ordered one of those kits off of their website. Should be in either Monday or Tuesday. I'll post if that really was my problem

Hmmm... no. Your pots dictate signal going to the output jack. Installing incorrect pots will not fry your pickups. To the OP: to see if the problem is your pickup or pot, you need to bypass the pot and use jumpers to connect the pickup output to your cable. Don't know how? Hire a tech. I will do that tomorrow at work. We used the 250's from the shop :/ The dude helping me had gotten the schematic from the EMG website but I think he read wrong. We were actually picking up FM radio on the pickups for a bit. :s

I ordered some EMG's off of a guy on craigslist (I know, shady...) Once they got here I tried installing them in my Gibson SG Faded. I didn't take it to be professionally installed, me and a friend figured we could do it ourselves. Took us a while but we finally got the pickups to work. Well I thought they would work right, they sound really weak and I compare them to other guitars from work with the 81/85's in them and these are no where NEAR the power that those guys are. Even the passives I had stock are more ballsy than these. When the guy sent them to me he said he'd include the pots, but he thought the pots were shot. I bought some new pots for the volume, but didn't change the tone pots. Used the same ones that were on my guitar already. Also when I turn the volume up and down I can hear the pots scratching hardcore. Did I wire them wrong? Or are the actual pickups messed up? I need to find out since I'm about to buy new ones if these don't work and I really don't have another guitar to use for practice. All help is greatly appreciated.