Post by chrislaarman on Dec 25, 2023 18:16:27 GMT
(My first message at all on this board, I think. - I couldn't find a thread on this topic, but I may have overlooked it. Then please refer me to the existing one.)
My latest guitar is a Harley Benton SC-Custom II Active White, one of the two variants of the SC-Custom model featuring active pick-ups (by Roswell: I didn't pay for EMG). Exploring active pick-ups was what made me buy this guitar.
The 3-way switch keeps puzzling me. My first example of this guitar had me try to fix this switch. This guitar is to be picked up for return right after Christmas. The second example of this guitar still shows behavior that I don't grasp.
The extreme positions of the 3-way switch pose no problem: just either pick-up. However, the middle position...
I'd expect it to combine the signals of both pick-ups after their Volume knobs, resulting in one strong signal. However, it seems as if the combined signal is weaker than either individual one.
When I "start" this guitar, with both Volumes shut and the 3-way switch in the middle position, only one pick-up will react to turning its volume up, and the volume of the other may contribute but a "shimmer", and only from nearing being turned up some 80%. But I can't tell the pick-up on duty. Then, using the 3-way switch to select an individual pick-up, that one will resound much louder than expected, and the act of switching is likely to produce the "pop" or "crack" noise associated with disconnecting a guitar from an amplifier without previously muting it. (Can you imagine me suspecting a faulty switch, then trying to fix it on the first example?)
Are these pick-ups wired in a "humbucking" way that makes then almost cancel each other out? If so, would that be the intention, or would it be a thoughtless copy from wiring guitars with passive pick-ups? (Note that the two variants of this model featuring passive pick-ups have a coil-split feature.)
(I don't consider this second guitar faulty, and I may have unintentionally made the first one faulty. - To understand what happens, that's why I started this thread.)
My latest guitar is a Harley Benton SC-Custom II Active White, one of the two variants of the SC-Custom model featuring active pick-ups (by Roswell: I didn't pay for EMG). Exploring active pick-ups was what made me buy this guitar.
The 3-way switch keeps puzzling me. My first example of this guitar had me try to fix this switch. This guitar is to be picked up for return right after Christmas. The second example of this guitar still shows behavior that I don't grasp.
The extreme positions of the 3-way switch pose no problem: just either pick-up. However, the middle position...
I'd expect it to combine the signals of both pick-ups after their Volume knobs, resulting in one strong signal. However, it seems as if the combined signal is weaker than either individual one.
When I "start" this guitar, with both Volumes shut and the 3-way switch in the middle position, only one pick-up will react to turning its volume up, and the volume of the other may contribute but a "shimmer", and only from nearing being turned up some 80%. But I can't tell the pick-up on duty. Then, using the 3-way switch to select an individual pick-up, that one will resound much louder than expected, and the act of switching is likely to produce the "pop" or "crack" noise associated with disconnecting a guitar from an amplifier without previously muting it. (Can you imagine me suspecting a faulty switch, then trying to fix it on the first example?)
Are these pick-ups wired in a "humbucking" way that makes then almost cancel each other out? If so, would that be the intention, or would it be a thoughtless copy from wiring guitars with passive pick-ups? (Note that the two variants of this model featuring passive pick-ups have a coil-split feature.)
(I don't consider this second guitar faulty, and I may have unintentionally made the first one faulty. - To understand what happens, that's why I started this thread.)