anibawl
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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
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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.
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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