Pickup noise question

[Creepy]

I recently got a guitar with a Duncan Distortion in the bridge and Jazz in the neck position. Both are coil tapped. Everything works fine but, when you touch the pickup hieght adjustment screws, I get excessive noise. I know this is probably a grounding problem, but where? Any help is appreciated

[DonP]

Sounds like the hot lead is going to ground and the ground lead is going to hot. Check the output jack to see if the wiring is reversed.

[Creepy]

Will do. Thanks.

[Creepy]

Well I looked at it and according to this diagram, that looks right. http://www.seymourduncan.com/support...2h_2v_1t_3w_pp

Any other ideas?

[javert]

I second what DonP said as the most likely explanation...

[javert]

Did you check all the grounding also?

[javert]

Oh, I just thought of another thing. One thing that caused a lot of noise on my guitar was that the pots were not connected right. The guy who did the wiring had mixed up the terminals on all the pots.

[straycat]

How did he do that?
guitarelectronics.com is a great source.Don't let dicks work on your guitar do it yourself.

[javert]

How did he do that?
guitarelectronics.com is a great source.Don't let dicks work on your guitar do it yourself.

You're asking me how somebody else screwed up? I don't know Anyways, the guitar in question is the one mentioned in this thread

http://www.jcfonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78099&page=2&highlight=NYC

I bought the guitar thinking it was new. It may have been (it was only a year old), but it had certainly been modded (other pickups had been installed, I suspect) and then changed back. It took me a while to figure out what was wrong. At first I thought the grounding was not done right.