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Wiring pickup to jack help?


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I dug my little epiphone eb0 out the other day, forgot how nice the neck is to play on it. The mudbucker pickup is notoriously low output on the epi, so thought I'd wire the pickup to the jack to increase output (a little) and add some high end.

I've read wiring the pickup to jack makes the high end rather harsh. So I thought if I added a capacitor or resistor to the 'ground' wire between pickup and jack would that (A) work? and (B) make any actual difference to tame the harsh high end?

 

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when I was experimenting with different P pickups in order to decide which one to use in mine I wired the output jack to a terminal block and tried them all direct, they didn't sound overly harsh; it meant I could swap them over fairly quickly without having to strip the instrument each time as I had the terminal block on top of the pickguard through the normal tone control hole and I could thread the pickup wires through the volume hole and connect and I didn't seem to suffer much rf noise as a result

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On 24/02/2021 at 21:12, hooky_lowdown said:

I've read wiring the pickup to jack makes the high end rather harsh. So I thought if I added a capacitor or resistor to the 'ground' wire between pickup and jack would that (A) work?

The circuit for a fully-open tone control would be a resistor and capacitor in parallel to the pickup.

 

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