No output from bridge pickup...
No output from bridge pickup...
so... doesn't it work at all, or does it it cut out from time to time?
first try locating the weak spot: solderings, wires, pots, switch, output jack.
if it isn't some bad pot/switch/jack, it may be a wire or soldering joint.
try pulling/moving the wires, till you find the source of your trouble.
then resolder or replace the wire.
(if it's a bad soldering joint - just resolder; if you suspect a weak wire - replace it)
Damn, forgot about this.
so... doesn't it work at all, or does it it cut out from time to time?
first try locating the weak spot: solderings, wires, pots, switch, output jack.
if it isn't some bad pot/switch/jack, it may be a wire or soldering joint.
try pulling/moving the wires, till you find the source of your trouble.
then resolder or replace the wire.
(if it's a bad soldering joint - just resolder; if you suspect a weak wire - replace it)
It doesn't cut out, it just sort of always sounds like the volume pot has been turned down really low. With a clean sound I get no sound at all, if that makes it a little clearer.
I took it to a shop here in town and the electronics guy said I had a bad pickup, which can't be because I switched the pickups around to make sure they were both working. I don't believe he's familiar with pickups like EMG's though so whatever (we don't have shit in terms of guitar stuff around here).
I think another possibility might be that the wires that go from the quick connect to inside of the cavity are fucked. I had the pickup cutting out at one point from an the already weak signal to an almost nothing with distortion at one point. I would tap on the bridge pickup and it would come back, then fade again, etc. Assuming that is it, is it possible to get EMG wiring without a new pickup, or can I replace the bad wires with wires of the same type? I've never swapped, installed, blah blah blah pickups so I'm a n00b at this (isn't it obvious?).
Anyway, I can't be fucked to mess with it right now, so I'm going to wait until after my finals before I bother messing with it.
Maybe the quick connect came loose from the back of the pickup itself. I know it seems strange, but ESP usually has soo little wire in the actual pickup cavity, that if you were noodling around in the back, replacing a battery or something, it's posible that you accidentally yanked the quick connect loose from the pickup. Check that. :) If it isn't that, you probably need a new toggle switch. Allparts has super nice ones that last forever.
-Ans-
EMG's have an internal opamp that is usually bulletproof, but can fail. If you have a spare 1/4 inch jack, hardwire the pickup to it, plug in a cable (a good one!) and see if you get a strong signal. A luthier would put it on a meter to see if it was getting good signal, but in lieu of the meter, that should work.
Best of luck my friend!
probably something fishy going at the pickup selector switch by the sounds of things. I think that should be your next port of call.