HSS strat. dimarzio super dist. 4 conductor bridge and van zandts in the neck/middle. So i realize that when i touch the polepieces on the SD my body becomes an antenna making a lot of noise and telling me the plate must be wired to the hot. The SC's do it too tho. It's been a while since i did any tweaking to this so i may have spaced done something dumb to the wiring. Anyways, i figure if i reverse all the pickups all will be well. When i dive in i see the SD is wired quite correctly with the red to switch, green to ground and black/white together and used to split it with a switch. heres the thing....the plate was grounded with the shield in the 4 conductor wire. And i had the green and that shield wire grounded to the vol pot. On the SD you are supposed to be able to reverse them with no issues like this because the 2 outer coil conductors can be ground or hot and the plate always has it's own ground. So why is it i was getting that antenna effect when i touched the polepieces? Now that i've reversed it i don't. I don't get this !
Anyways, the reason i ask leads me to the second weird issue. Now that i reversed them, the bridge/middle position which was dead quiet B4 is now buzzing. It no longer bucks hum with the bridge and middle together. Note that i do NOT use tone controls so that side of the 5 way switch is not used for that and i therefore use it to auto split the SD when in the bridge/middle position. Both the van zandts and SD were reversed, so shouldn't they have stayed the same in this regard?
I posted this to see if i may be spacing and missing something because i really miss having the bridge middle buck the hum because i use that position a lot. Any ideas whats going on here and if theres anything i can do about it?
Topic: Explain this for me please (Read 4038 times)