Help! My D-sonic Sounds Crap!!!! why!!!

[dwells]

hey ive put the d-sonic dimarzio in the bridge reversed like jp and reversed the wiring (i think) and it sounds noisy as hell and no punch to it !!
my Emgs in my lukes absolutely destroys this pickup in my Silo! is something wrong?
help
D

 

[mightypudge]

No punch and noise sounds like a wiring issue. Maybe one of the solder joints is cold. Double check your color coding as well.

 

[lenny]

hey ive put the d-sonic dimarzio in the bridge reversed like jp and reversed the wiring (i think) and it sounds noisy as hell and no punch to it !!
my Emgs in my lukes absolutely destroys this pickup in my Silo! is something wrong?
help
D

Look to the install.....noise is usually bad wiring!!

 

[dwells]

does anyone have the wiring diagram for d-sonic but the JP version????

 

[lenny]

http://www.ernieball.com/forums/music-man-guitars/28723-john-petrucci-wiring-flipping-d-sonic-changing-ss-d-sonic.htmlFrom Dizzy bro ...hope it helps

 

[dwells]

2 : The wiring is completely different if you want the inner coil active when split :
* The red wire from the pickup is soldered to the white solder pad on the PC board.

* The black pickup wire is soldered to green on the PC.

* The green pickup wire is soldered to black on the PC.

* The white pickup wire is soldered to red on the PC.


does this mean on a silo where the red wire goes is were originaly the white one was and etc.... silos dont have a p.c pad

 

[mesavox]

Hey Dean... I think the caveat to all those threads is that they are talking about putting a D Sonic in a pre D Sonic JP. I am imagining that the silo might have some slight differences... especially since you have a different kind of selector switch (I'm assuming). I haven't even found a four pole three way lever yet. Maybe you've had better luck.

If you're using a four pole 5 way, I'm guissing there are just more options to throw a little curve at you.

By the way... we're sharing cd space on the Deliverence tribute!!! Raymond told me you guys were doing songs and I was like... "ROCK, we're on the same record as Teramaze!!!!"

 

[azazael]

A deliverance tribute??
Just in time for this swine flu pandemic huh...
make those pinch harmonics squeal boy!

 

[mesavox]

Um... not that Deliverance. LOL

 

[bkrumme]

Dwells, if you don't have it figured out yet, shoot me a PM. If it's all good to go, then AWESOME!

What pup config is your silo? HSH? HSS? Also, send me a pic of how you've got it wired up and I'll help you sort it out.

If I'm understanding correctly, you have the D-Sonic in the bridge with the solid bar toward the neck. You want the inner coil (solid bar) active when the bridge pickup is split. If you have the standard Silo 5-way switch this shouldn't be an issue at all

 

[mesavox]

how is this coming along?

 

[dwells]

i got it re wired the other day and it sounds great now, i have the bar facing the bridge at the moment its very bright and we disconnected the tone pot which was 250k anyway so maybe ill put a 500k in it .
alls good so far cheers guys