Tue Feb 18, 2014 12:30 pm
Tue Feb 18, 2014 12:31 pm
Tue Feb 18, 2014 12:47 pm
mikewashmo wrote:I installed a Seth Lover in my Tribute Bluesboy and it sounds great in the neck position. The stock MFD bridge pickup sounds great, but the middle position loses output and sounds really thin. I read some old posts and it seems like the USA Bluesboys had a different pickup polarity than the regular ASAT MFD bridge pickups. The Tribute has the regular pickup and it seems you need to reverse the polarity of that regular pickup to match the USA BB bridge pickup. Rather than revive old threads, I thought I would post a new one to make sure I fix it right and only have to take the bridge off one time.
So, with that long (sorry) intro, my question is to verify how that polarity switch is done. What I understood from some of the other posts, is that you would just desolder the little wire that runs from the cover plate to next to the red wire and re-solder it to just next to the yellow wire. This would make it match the USA and should sound killer in that middle position. posting.php?mode=post&f=13#
Here is a link to a picture of this to help clarify. The pic is the back of what a USA BB bridge pickup should look like and I drew a line with blue sharpie to illustrate the wire that I understand needs to be moved.
http://www.guitarsbyleo.com/GALLERY2/ma ... emId=12731
So I want to verify that I have this right, or if not, let me know what I need to do to make it right so I can have the middle position back.
Thanks,
Mike
Tue Feb 18, 2014 1:11 pm
Tue Feb 18, 2014 1:52 pm
mikewashmo wrote:Not a potted version, just the standard SH-55 neck. It sounds great in there, just hoping to get back that really good middle position sound as the Seth and the MFD really sound great together.
Thanks,
Mike
Tue Feb 18, 2014 10:17 pm
Wed Feb 19, 2014 9:20 am
mikewashmo wrote:Made that wire switch tonight and the middle position is now good to go! I have ane Elek-trix tele 3-way control kit in it, too so I also had to switch the yellow and red wire there, but it is solder free so nothing to it. Those kits are pretty cool as you can change from vintage to modern wiring and change capacitor values by just flipping some internal dip switches. It also changes to use a 500k vol pot when on the neck position for the humbucker and 250k when in middle and bridge. Pretty cool kits for a decent price. I have the cap set at 047 now to match what the us BB is, but will try some other values one of these days. It's now my poor mans BB and sounds great.
Thanks for your help!
Fri Jan 02, 2015 9:29 am
Fri Jan 02, 2015 10:06 am
Fri Jan 02, 2015 10:37 am
Jared wrote:Not to revive an old thread but this doesn't seem to specify one other thing. Once the plate ground has been switched (little connection from the red to the yellow) don't you have to switch the wires at the control plate? Connect the yellow wire where the red one was and vice versa in order to switch the polarity. This may be a given, but I am going to be doing this very thing so want to be sure.
Thanks
Sat Jan 03, 2015 10:26 am
Tue Jan 06, 2015 7:55 am