My Guitar has no BALLS

[GodWentPUNK]

This is a used guitar...I'll tell you all more about it a little later, but it was a righty converted to a lefty.

As it stands, the guitar has absolutely no volume/balls to it. I hooked it up to my JSX and I had to turn the master volume to 4 in order to get any sound from the guitar. With my other guitars, the master is set at .666 and I get great tone at that setting. The amp/cables are all fine.

The input jack and volume pot were replaced at some point so I went ahead a replaced those two parts again without any success. I also replaced the bridge pickup while doing all this.

When I first got the guitar, it didn't have any volume either so I know (hopefully) I didn't screw anything up. So I thinking that the prior owner(s) screwed something up and although I replaced things, I hooked up the new parts like the old.

Any ideas what would be SUCKING to tone from my guitar?

btw: my system is hooked up this way:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/schematics/HSS_1v_5w.html

Also: for a single volume setup, is a 500k pot better than a 250k??? why???

joe...

[sl2lover]

Get some EMG's!

[Guitardude86]

You want BALLS?? Problem solved:

http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/4731/3161/1600/820953/cool_guitars_05.jpg

[GodWentPUNK]

Hardy...harr...harr...

or should I say Harry...harr..harr...

joe....

[mjl927]

It's hard to speculate what the problem is but maybe you could try eliminating all variables one at a time until you find the problem. For example, try hooking the pickup right to the jack...bypassing everything. If that sound good then hook up the volume control. Keep going until you discover where the problem lies. If I were to guess though, I think you might have one or more wires hooked up incorrectly creating some kind of bleed to the ground.

[GodWentPUNK]

" For example, try hooking the pickup right to the jack...bypassing everything. " Good idea. I'll try that.

I did redo the volume/input jack to no avail.

Also, I using stranded brass 10gauge for some of my wiring, would that effect things?

thanks!

joe...

[mjl927]

Also, I using stranded brass 10gauge for some of my wiring, would that effect things?

I honestly don't know. I would use the closest size to the size of the wire that comes on the pickups. If the wire is really big, it might cause some undo resistance.

[UFORocks]

10 gauge wire is definitely too big, IIRC 18 to 20 gauge works pretty well. Anything higher might be too small.

[Newc]

Could be the jack itself is not making good contact with the cable?

[JACKSONFREAK]

It could be the switch is messed up.
Gil

[GodWentPUNK]

Oops...not 10gauge but yes, 18...Not sure what was on my mind on that one comment.

joe...

[ihocky2]

Like already said, the first thing I would do is run the pickup right to the jack. If you get nothing, you know the jack is the problem. If it works, then start adding stuff in one at a time until you find the dead component.

[Strat God]

Sell it and buy a Jackson.

[Mordor]

[GodWentPUNK]

Got that part covered