active pickup murder
active pickup murder
OEM. Original Equipment. As opposed to an aftermarket upgrade.
Plainly put, the pickups that came in the guitar from the factory.
Regarding your symptoms, I don't think soldering while the battery was in the circuit would necessarily do anything bad, after all, you're just closing and opening the circuit by cutting and then resoldering anything. Additionally, if the guitar was unplugged, the circuit should have been open (non functioning) anyway. But I've never done soldering work with an active setup while the battery is connected, so I can't say anything as a matter of certain fact.
You should probably remove the battery, unsolder your connections, redo them carefully, and then put the battery back in. It could always be one of your connections isn't perfect. But if you still do that and the problem persists, maybe you did cook one of the preamps.
Yeap ...just like JSHRED says. I installed passive Gibson pickups in my EC-1000 Deluxe (I posted the pics and everything up on here, and I can find you the link if you care to see). Since then the EMGs that came with the guitar are sitting in a box not being used. Not a thing wrong with them ...I just wanted to experiment with some passives in my EC-1000 to see if I could get it to sound anything like my Gibson.
Seriously? Nobody? Guys i am freakin out.