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zedsnotdead wrote:Hello everyone!
I have this guitar, bought it a year ago, and this is my first electric guitar. Just love it.
Well, i have just a couple of questions that are killing me:
1-is the wiring in the tribute s500 equal to the USA s500? I mean, i shielded the inners and i saw that i have 3 capacitors where in the schematics there are 4... (I think the missing one's the C3 (0,001uF) but im not sure - have to take the pickguard off to be sure).
UPDATE: This is the missing cap:
Thank you so much!
Tue Sep 07, 2010 2:31 am
Craig wrote:
If you bought it new from an authorized G&L dealer, you should return it to them and have them take care of getting
it fixed under the 2 year Tribute Warranty. Make sure to have your original receipt with you when you return it for repair.
Hope this helps.
Tue Sep 07, 2010 7:24 am
zedsnotdead wrote:Craig wrote:
If you bought it new from an authorized G&L dealer, you should return it to them and have them take care of getting
it fixed under the 2 year Tribute Warranty. Make sure to have your original receipt with you when you return it for repair.
Hope this helps.
Well, that might be a problem, altough the guitar's stiil in warranty period, because of these couple of reasons:
1- since i customized with a different bridge pickup (Dimarzio) and needed to make a small hole in the pickguard to install 3-way DPDT switch for coil-tap/paralell/series combination of this pickup, my warranty is voided i think... (stiil have the original MFD bridge pickup though)
2- i bought this guitar in a local MI shop. If i return it for repair, they will send the guitar to G&L's distributor in my country (i live in Portugal), which i know they will not fix anything because they are only distributors, and only distribute guitars (not parts of any kind, just receive guitars and distribute them), and they don't even have a repair shop of their own.
So i guess i'm stuck here... or... i could buy a cap and solder it on my own risk
Anyway, as i told you on my previous posts, i would like to know if the G&L's dualblade humbucker would fit and mix well with the MFD's, even though i know i will have to buy it from G&L's store and ask them to send it to Portugal, since the distributor doesn't sell parts, only guitars...
That's the main reason why i also asked if i could buy another pickup (dimarzio or SD) that would do the work, better than my current Dimarzio Tonezone S, wich i feel is a bit "weak" in single coil mode, and has a noticeble difference in terms of tone and sound compared to MFDs (mind you that in series humbucker mode is hot and sounds pretty good). For exemple, if i select M+B pickups (bridge in single-coil), the MFD middle pickup almost "shuts" the bridge pickup (dimarzio)...
What do you think?
Tue Sep 07, 2010 10:37 am
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