Possible issue on me Silo

[Roubster]

Howdy humanisms! Just replaced the 2 humbuckers on the Silo with BREED models. Everything seemed fine, untill I turn up the volume and pick the low E string harder. The neck BREED model seems to overdirve the clean channel on my Line6 Spider2. I dont think this exactly normal. Me and my brother wired it exactly how the other PUPs were before. This happens ONLY when the neck PUP is switched on with both coils. When I switch the toggle for both the humer and single the distortedness is not there anymore. It seems to do this "weird" overdrive thing on the distortion channel as well, which I found also weird. Is it possible that the PUP should be turned with the other coil towards the neck? Both coils are exactly identical, like the Steve Morse pups. The way me and my brother put it in was with the wire out of the pup facing AWAY from the rest of the electronics, and the bridge with the cable facing the electronics. (Basically followed EXACTLY how the other PUPs were in there).

Other question is, that the low E string is slightly touching the fretboard behind the nut. I DID swich the gauge to 10's, but no other string is touching. It is not cutting into the fretboard (at least yet (hopefully it wont happen at all)). I asked this before, but is this something I should worry about? I do have a tremolo on the geetar, and I dont use it insanely at all, but still my common sense is saying that it is possible after some time that with will cut in more and more. What do the PROs here think. Jon, your advice would be GREATLY apreciated. And another question is that does my PUP change void the warranty??? I hope not, because all that as done was the PUP change which is exactly as the others were, just not %100 if it was done ACCURATELY since I nor my brother never worked on the electronics of a geetar.

 

[Roubster]

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[Sigmunds Couch]

Most likely answer is ---- the pickups are SOOOOO hot that they are driving the Line6 into digital clipping. That's a horrible sound. Adjust the input gain control on the Line6 to deal with the hotter signal from the new PUP's.

 

[beej]

Siggy is probably right - they're probably hotter, and the neck pickup is going to be louder than the bridge due to the increased string amplitude at the neck PU.

I'd start with lowering the pickup as far as it'll go and see how that sounds. Then bring it up slowly until the output level matches the bridge.

If that still doesn't do it, then take the PU out and wire it out to the jack directly and make sure both coils are actually working properly. It's possible you have an issue with one coil, though I'd really doubt it.

PU orientation shouldn't matter for noise, etc. However it'll affect the sound slightly- you'll be moving the one coil that interacts with the middle PU slightly, so you might notice a difference in the "quack" when you select neck/middle. You can tell which coil is live by tapping on the pole pieces with a small screwdriver.