H-H-H problem

[yesfan2]

Aloha,

I bought a used Steinberger Spirit, got some new pickups from Carvin:

Neck: Holdsworth Humbucker H22N-1
www.carvin.com/products/single.php?ItemNumber=H22N-1&CID=GTR/K

Center: Twinblade Humbucker www.carvin.com/products/single.php?ItemNumber=TBH60&CID=GTR/K

Bridge: Holdsworth Humbucker H22T-1
www.carvin.com/products/single.php?ItemNumber=H22T-1&CID=GTR/K

I swaped the stock EMG Select pickups, everything works fine except in the Center-Neck position, the signal drops a lot faster than the other configurations (even the Bridge-Neck position). What seems to be the problem?

Thanks for any help!

Eddie

[ccoleman]

what do u mean by "the signal drops a lot faster".... ?!

[yesfan2]

<< what do u mean by "the signal drops a lot faster".... ?! >>

It's like after you strum a chord, normally, it take say 5 seconds for the sound to fade away, but in the Center-Neck position, it fades away in 2.5 seconds.

[ccoleman]

Probably the magnets are pulling on the strings and slowing them down.

Try lowering your pickups away from the strings and see how that makes a difference.

[UnklMickey]

hi Yesfan2,

welcome to GN2.

i don't have a good answer for your question, and unfortunately i don't think the previous answer was very good either.

ccoleman said:

Probably the magnets are pulling on the strings and slowing them down....

no offense intended, CC, but that doesn't fit the symptoms.

if the magnets were killing the sustain, they would do so regardless of which pickups were selected.

they don't get closer to the strings, just because the Neck-Center combo is selected.


cheers,


unk

[ccoleman]

good point unk...

I was thinking "magnets" in the sense that posibly a coil would be shunted and sucking out tone in that combo.

another possiblity: the combo is OOP and after 2.5 sec more or less cancels completely.

[Happyguy]

I think he should review his wiring job, If it's a phasing issue he would be getting inside out thin tin can noise. But meby that is the case. I don't know. I would just double check everything to make sure before we look for bigger problems.