https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/replacing-active-pickups-with-passive/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:02:16 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/replacing-active-pickups-with-passive/paged/2/#post-379040 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:23:44 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance Niklas https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/replacing-active-pickups-with-passive/paged/2/#post-379040 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/replacing-active-pickups-with-passive/#post-378849 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:13:13 +0000
To me it's just not worth the money. I'll ask them if they can just drill the hole so I can do the work then. That would be 200-500 SEK they said depending on how much work.

If I sold my guitar I could get 750-800 USD (Even though it was 1400 USD new) I think. So this would be quite a stupid investment. If I put the money for the pickup change and the money I could get from selling it, I would have 1400 USD to spend on a guitar. That would almost buy me a nice second-hand Gibson, which then would have a much better resale-value.

A pickup change wouldn't change the value of the guitar either (maybe to the lower if anything).]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance Niklas https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/replacing-active-pickups-with-passive/#post-378849 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/replacing-active-pickups-with-passive/#post-378846 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:41:23 +0000
Yes, that's USD. Their excuse is that they need to do a complete setup too. So you can't only change the strings.]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance Niklas https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/replacing-active-pickups-with-passive/#post-378846 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/replacing-active-pickups-with-passive/#post-378843 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:39:49 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance imalone https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/replacing-active-pickups-with-passive/#post-378843 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/replacing-active-pickups-with-passive/#post-378842 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:52:59 +0000
Like I'm going to pay that much! Then it would be much better of buying a new guitar. I'm going to mail the guitar shop and see what they say.]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance Niklas https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/replacing-active-pickups-with-passive/#post-378842 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/replacing-active-pickups-with-passive/#post-378841 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:42:02 +0000
I would really like to have your google skills!! I don't how many times I searched without finding the pages you're linking too.

To be honest, it feels like it would be a better chose to sell this guitar to some kid who only plays metal and buy a new guitar. If I find a used Les Paul I think the actual cost would be about the same as taking this guitar to a tech here. I'm not kidding about the prices they charge to fix something here. It's like $80 for them to just change strings!

And they probably wouldn't earth the bridge anywhy if I told them to change pickups. And then I would have a guitar with a loud 50 cycle hum (yes, it's 50 Hz in Europe, but 60 Hz in the States). My confidence in guitarshops are extremly low.

I probably should get an estimation of how much it would cost before selling anything though. Just in case. And tell them about the bridge earth thing. I really wish I had a guitar tech I knew I could trust.

This also explains why my Hollowbody has quite a bit of humming. The bridge is made out of wood! And it's difficult working with the electronics on hollowbodys.]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance Niklas https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/replacing-active-pickups-with-passive/#post-378841 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/replacing-active-pickups-with-passive/#post-378835 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 01:52:16 +0000 http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/pickups/111283-grounding-active-pickups.html with active pickups you don't necessarily have a bridge earth. This seems to be exactly your case https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=13690.0%3bwap2, there may be a hole drilled already. I don't know how much effect it will have to not earth the bridge.

Edit: last post in this http://www.thegearpage.net/board/archive/index.php/t-384674.html suggests there's hope, but obviously you'll want to be careful looking for this mythical path to the bridge.]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance imalone https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/replacing-active-pickups-with-passive/#post-378835 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/replacing-active-pickups-with-passive/#post-378834 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:35:00 +0000

Ok, I'll have to look if there is a possible way to actually to have a connection between the pots and the bridge. It could be that there is no pathway for some wire between the back cavity and behind the bridge if it wasn't needed from the start. This could ruin the whole project, because I'm not going to start drilling.

It's because stuff like this I want to make sure before I buy anything. All searches about this resulted in "you need to change the pots too". Yeah, I think that's the least of my problems.]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance Niklas https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/replacing-active-pickups-with-passive/#post-378834 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/replacing-active-pickups-with-passive/#post-378829 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 23:29:38 +0000 But looking at that wiring diagram only one thing is confusing me. The bridge ground wire that goes to (what!? Out of the picture). This is not done one the EMG:s I have now. Is it soldered to the guitar bridge somehow? Yes, the bridge is earthed, so one end of that wire should go through the body to the bridge somehow.]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance imalone https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/replacing-active-pickups-with-passive/#post-378829 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/replacing-active-pickups-with-passive/#post-378824 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:44:23 +0000
Push-pull switched pots are much longer/deeper than plain pots (because they have a massive switch stuck on the back of them). You probably want to check the cavity depth beforehand. These are the tips I'm looking for! Thank you very much. Yes, I realize about the volume pots being log pots because our hearing being logaritmic (dB). But you actually prefer the tone to be logaritmic too? That's usually linear as I understood it. It should be linear if it together with a capacitor acts like a low-pass filter.

I was also worried about the length of the push-pull switch, but I've had a look and there seems to be a lot of space for them. And my guitar model is selling now with push-pull pots. I'll take measurements before I order though.

I've decided on the JB and '59 combination becasue of the versatility. And I'll only do the coil-splitting option and skip the out-of-phase thing. Now I'm just waiting for the money to order these things.

I've also found this which should make everything a breeze! Only the need for the one push-pull pot i see now. Good.
http://www.schecterguitars.com/Handler.ashx?Item_ID=137&display=seriesspec

But looking at that wiring diagram only one thing is confusing me. The bridge ground wire that goes to (what!? Out of the picture). This is not done one the EMG:s I have now. Is it soldered to the guitar bridge somehow?]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance Niklas https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/replacing-active-pickups-with-passive/#post-378824