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volume pots I am trying to wire up piezo pickups, volume pot and jack to my cbg. I have a volume pot from radio shack I would like to use, and am conf… Started by Hank Bruner	7	Jan 28, 2011 Reply by Hank Bruner
pickup hum problems searched high and low and couldn't find an answer so I'm asking here. I have a cbg with a hum problem. It has a single humbucker pickup in… Started by Sonny Wentling	4	Jan 28, 2011 Reply by carverman
preamp??? being an electronic dummy---what exactly will a preamp do for my cbg with a piezo or pup or both. please help make me an electronics guru Started by mark "mudcat" quigley	1	Jan 26, 2011 Reply by Skeesix
Soldering Vs. Electrical tape I'm probably sounding totally niave right now but can I use electrical tape instead of solder? Started by alectron	8	Jan 17, 2011 Reply by alectron
Reverse mounting mag. pickup - will it work? Hi. Not stricly about wiring, but about mounting magnetic pickups. Normal parctice seems to be to have two screws that allow the pickup to… Started by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw	10	Jan 8, 2011 Reply by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw
Mag pickups at an angle. John's stupid question No. 257. Looking at photos of guitars with magnetic pickups, particularly those with multiple pickups, there is so… Started by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw	5	Jan 7, 2011 Reply by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw
pots is pots and piezos are piezos I would like to join the discussion on pots and piezos. I've had a fair amount of wiring experience with humbuckers and single coils and… Started by carverman	13	Dec 22, 2010 Reply by carverman
buzzing when i toutch the string's,, ??,, help,, just finished this one, when i toutch the string's i get a bit of buzzing, cant figure out why, i've earthed the string's to the jack earth… Started by GARAGE HERMIT	11	Dec 21, 2010 Reply by GARAGE HERMIT
Single string humbucker After the recent chat about sewing machine bobbins being a cheap and quick thing to wind a pickup coil on, I had a thought about wiring a f… Started by eric gittins	3	Dec 17, 2010 Reply by Ellwood T. Bear
active p/u into passive p/u, swap,? can an active p/u be used as an ordinary passive p/u, friend of mine has brought round a yamaha bass, and i think the electronic's are u/s,… Started by GARAGE HERMIT	1	Dec 5, 2010 Reply by Skeesix

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Something to do with those cheap/unused pickups…

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Output method

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Creackle from Volume and Tone pots

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Dealing with hum...

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Copper foil tape as shield.

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Why have a switch?

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Problem with second-hand amp.

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Added the CB Gitty “Psycho Knob”

Started by Tim Pannabecker. Last reply by Paul Craig Mar 8, 2019. 16 Replies 0 Likes

Lipstick pickup and Telecaster neck pickup. What goes where?

Started by Slow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bear. Last reply by Slow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bear Mar 1, 2019. 12 Replies 0 Likes

Wiring CB Gitty Black Ice Single Coil

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Minimal effect from volume or tone pot

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Problem posting discussion

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Vol, tone, 3 way toggle and 2 single coils?

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