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The Pickup Place / Re: Humbucker from Hell help- faulty or weak?
« on: January 30, 2021, 04:39:00 PM »
Hey Stephan,
Now that the pickup is out, between red and black and white reads 3.22 and green and black and white is 2.22.  I connected a liquifire to the same terminal, but it didn't get any sound either.  Nor does the 4th position that's supposed to be split between the middle and the humbucker.  I suppose somehow the terminal or the wiring is selector itself is screwed up, maybe I should just replace the thing

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The Pickup Place / Re: Humbucker from Hell help- faulty or weak?
« on: January 27, 2021, 06:14:15 PM »
Thanks Stephan.  No luck.  I removed the black and white wires and didn't get any sounds or DC readings.  The DC meter works for the other pickups so it's not that.  The red active wire seems intact, but could that be damaged?  I might try taking the neck out of my les paul and seeing if it'll work in there to see if it's the guitar or the pickup. 

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The Pickup Place / Re: Humbucker from Hell help- faulty or weak?
« on: January 26, 2021, 06:40:41 PM »
Thanks for the replies and the advice. White and black are connected to the corresponding parts of the pickup selector where they were connected on previous pickups, and corresponding to my other ibanez.  (I think it's the third terminal from the right?) 
Anyway, now the pickup doesn't get any sound at all (or maybe very faint).  0 resistance reading from the pickup (While still in the guitar).  Thanks Stephen for suggesting the other measurements.  They all came back 0. It's a 15 year old guitar, I wouldn't be surprised if there were some faulty wiring somewhere, but now I'm wondering if it's the pickup.  Admittedly I don't know a tremendous amount about soldering and wiring.  Maybe I should just take it in somewhere?

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The Pickup Place / Re: Humbucker from Hell help- faulty or weak?
« on: January 25, 2021, 06:13:08 PM »
Hey Stephan.  Thank you for your response.  The DC resistance reads 5.42, which is close to the 5.89 listed by dimarzio.  Wiring seems to be the same as where the last pickups were wired, and also the same as my other ibanez - red to active, white and black together and green and bare to ground.   There is a little more hum than the other pickups, but not an extreme amount. 

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The Pickup Place / Humbucker from Hell help- faulty or weak?
« on: January 25, 2021, 12:21:00 PM »
Hey folks, I have a question for anyone who has tried the humbucker from hell.  I'm wondering if it's faulty or if it's just much lower output than I would expect. 
I'm a lifelong electric guitar player but I'm new to the forums here, and not very tech savy, so I would appreciate any advice.  I recently installed a humbucker from hell in the neck of an HSH ibanez prestige with a basswood body.   I was looking for a bright, articulate pickup and thought this would fit the bill.   
The pickup seems incredibly underpowered though.  I have an H3 in the middle position, and the H3 is way louder than the HFH, even though the height of the H3 is lower.  If I adjust the pickup height so that the HFH is even with the fingerboard,  the H3 single coil is still louder.  I can verify this by looking at the waveforms in my DAW.
 Notes fade off really quickly.  There is also this weird sound that sounds like fret buzz or two notes being played at once, but it's not present when I use the H3 or the bridge pup.
The wiring seems to be okay, it's not wired for parallel or anything.  Could this be a problem with the pickup?  Or some some faulty wiring? Or is this just the humbucker from hell?   Thanks!

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