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I had paid a guitar repair shop to remove some EMG's (EMG-81 and EMG-SA) from my guitar and install some passive pickups (DiMarzio CrunchLab Bridge and Bare Knuckle Impulse Single Coil).
We are not able to try the guitars out there due to their understandable pandemic precautions but I had noticed the bar on the CrunchLab was facing the bridge and not the neck (it usually faces the neck on all my other guitars).
As soon as I arrived home, I plugged in and it sounded like a single coil (buzzy and thinner than a humbucker) so I went back and I had them reverse the CrunchLab.
Returned home and I found it sounded pretty much the same.
I am assuming something is not wired correctly since the CrunchLab does not sound even close to how it sounds on my other guitars (I realize that PU's can sound pretty different on different guitars but it sounds like a single coil).
Most likely, I will need to take it back next Saturday for inspection and hopefully get it to sound normal to me.
Do they need to replace the output jack on the guitar if it went from EMG's to passive PU's?
I believe there was a new output jack installed when I had the EMG's installed years ago (all of the pots were replaced as well at that time for active PU's).
For this current PU installation, I know they had swapped out the volume/tone pots since I received the old ones in a box, however, there is no output jack with them so I thought I should ask about it here.
Thanks for your time and considerations!!
We are not able to try the guitars out there due to their understandable pandemic precautions but I had noticed the bar on the CrunchLab was facing the bridge and not the neck (it usually faces the neck on all my other guitars).
As soon as I arrived home, I plugged in and it sounded like a single coil (buzzy and thinner than a humbucker) so I went back and I had them reverse the CrunchLab.
Returned home and I found it sounded pretty much the same.
I am assuming something is not wired correctly since the CrunchLab does not sound even close to how it sounds on my other guitars (I realize that PU's can sound pretty different on different guitars but it sounds like a single coil).
Most likely, I will need to take it back next Saturday for inspection and hopefully get it to sound normal to me.
Do they need to replace the output jack on the guitar if it went from EMG's to passive PU's?
I believe there was a new output jack installed when I had the EMG's installed years ago (all of the pots were replaced as well at that time for active PU's).
For this current PU installation, I know they had swapped out the volume/tone pots since I received the old ones in a box, however, there is no output jack with them so I thought I should ask about it here.
Thanks for your time and considerations!!