Hey all,
So I finally finished building and spraying my very first les paul. Took me a solid 6 months. Now it's time to wire it up and give it a go!?! Nope....
I bought brand new CTS pots, switchcraft toggle switch and jack, The pups are bare knuckle pg blues. So I wired everything up. plugged it in.. And it sounds off.. Of course I was extremely disappointed and stressed because this was supposed to be my moment! It was finally finished!
Other than sounding off, the 2 main problems are: both tone pots just straight up don't work (not even scratching or slightly changing the sound), and Both volume pots only work on the first 10% (I'm using lin for volume and log for tone)
And here's the weird thing. I thought maybe the pots are faulty or I burned them with exces heat.. So I took the harness out of my epi les paul (That I completely re-wired myself a year ago, and everything works perfectly in it) I put it in the new les paul. And exact same problems...
So then I thought maybe it's the pickups.. I took the bridge pickup from my epi and installed it in the new one.. nothing changed..
I'm really lost right now.. All the solder connections look good to me. I've been trying to fix this for 3 days now... please help!
So I finally finished building and spraying my very first les paul. Took me a solid 6 months. Now it's time to wire it up and give it a go!?! Nope....
I bought brand new CTS pots, switchcraft toggle switch and jack, The pups are bare knuckle pg blues. So I wired everything up. plugged it in.. And it sounds off.. Of course I was extremely disappointed and stressed because this was supposed to be my moment! It was finally finished!
Other than sounding off, the 2 main problems are: both tone pots just straight up don't work (not even scratching or slightly changing the sound), and Both volume pots only work on the first 10% (I'm using lin for volume and log for tone)
And here's the weird thing. I thought maybe the pots are faulty or I burned them with exces heat.. So I took the harness out of my epi les paul (That I completely re-wired myself a year ago, and everything works perfectly in it) I put it in the new les paul. And exact same problems...
So then I thought maybe it's the pickups.. I took the bridge pickup from my epi and installed it in the new one.. nothing changed..
I'm really lost right now.. All the solder connections look good to me. I've been trying to fix this for 3 days now... please help!