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Yes they are backwards, but even with this Sidewinder in the bridge position it is still bordering on being too muddy for my liking, I will probably be doing some experiment with a series/parallel switch to see if I can get more mids and highs, and if that does not work out to my liking I might also ad a active preamp.

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There are enough mids if my neck pickup is dialed in, bud the Sidewinder on it's own is muddy, it's called a mudbucker for a reason.
One of my considerations to put it in the bridge position was to gain more mids and remove some of the muddiness, only the position by itself is not giving what I hoped for.
I like the sounds the bass can produce right now, but I was hoping for a bit more versatility, I think a series/parallel switch can bring more variation.

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Replaced the two core wire with a four core one on the Sidewinder and placed and wired up a series/parallel switch, this switch gives a lot more variation in the sound possibilities and seems to have solved my problem with the muddiness.

For the time being I'm happy with the result, the muddiness is still there if want to but now there's also a setting that gives me a lot more mids.

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  • 1 year later...

[size=5][b]Update time![/b][/size]

I never developed a affinity for the mudbucker bridge pickup, whatever I try it stays a muddy sob and I can not get a sound out of it I like.
A couple of weeks ago I finally decided to replace it and started a search for a pickup that could fit underneath the mudbucker cover because I did not want to spoil the current appearance. In the end I went for a Chinese toaster replica which it arrived today.

Fresh from the box.


Removed the toaster housing, it's a genuine dual coil.


It should fit underneath the existing cover without any major problems.

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[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/0WRLWKU.jpg[/IMG]
It already fits inside the existing cavity, that's something I didn't count on!

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/k4WVqJZ.jpg[/IMG]
Mounted in place and wired up properly.

The muddiness is gone! This pickup sounds way more to what I want then the sidewinder.

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Last week I finally found the last Gremlin that was hiding in my mk5-4f wiring.
The neck pickup was dropping out every once in a while and there was a crackling noise with all the pots.
Tried all sorts of things over time, replaced the secondhand neck pickup with a new one - problem still there!
It must be something else, replaced the balance pot - no luck, still there!
Checked the soldering connections but they all looked okay, as a last resort took a closer look at the jack - and there it was!!
I used a mono jack with three soldering eyelets, it looked like two were attached to ground and one was hot. Upon closer inspection, and after measuring the resistance, one of these two ground eyelets wasn't as attached to ground as I thought. Three guesses which one I used for ground, the bad one, re-soldered the ground to the other eyelet and now everything appears to work like a charm - no more crackling or dropouts!

Moral of this story - blablas doesn't know much about electronics but in the end he will solve it!! :thank_you:

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