Troubleshooting
Seymour answers question to help you troubleshoot problems with your guitar and wiring.
- How Do You Test your Pickups?
- How Can You Tell if a Pickup Isn't Working Properly?
- What Can Damage a Pickup?
- What are Some of the Things that Can Cause a Pickup to Fail?
- Can Dropping the Pickup Affect the Magnetic Field or Coil?
- What Causes Static in Pickups?
- What Can be Done With Faulty Wiring?
- What are the Possible Causes of a Pickup Losing Volume and Tone?
- What is the Biggest Cause of Pickup Failure?
- How Do I Know if my Pickups are Epoxied?
- What Happens if a Pickup is Loose in a Pickguard or Mounting Ring?
- What Happens if a Foreign Article Such as Steel Wool is Attached to the Magnets?
- Why Do My Gretsch Pickups Sound Weak When Using Acoustic Strings?
- What happens if you Remove the Adjustable Poles on a Humbucker?
- What are Some of the Do's and Don’t's Regarding Pickups?
- What are Some of the Reasons Pickups Get Broken?
- Why Does the Gold Plating Wear Off my Pickups so Soon?
- How Do I Determine the Winding Direction of my Pickup?
- The Body of my Guitar is Made of Maple and the Guitar Sounds Very Bright No Matter what Pickup I Put in it. What Can I Do?
- Why Do My Pickups Sound Different When I Take Them Out of One Guitar and Put Them into Another
- What Can be Done with Faulty Capacitors?
- I Took my Gibson P-90 (Soapbar) Pickup Apart and Now it Has Little Output But the Coil Still Reads 7.3k Ohms.
- I Have a Humbucking Pickup that Works When I Split it, But When I Use Both Coils it Becomes Inoperative. What Can I Do?
- I Took the Cover Off My Gibson Pickup to See the Coils and Now the Pickup Cuts in and out after the Cover was Replaced.
- I Took the Tape Off my Humbucker to Measure the D.C. Resistance of Each Coil and Get a Pickup That's Shorted Out, But When Installed the Pickup Works Fine.
- What Can be Done for Pickups that are Loose in Pick Guards and Mounting Plates on Standard Guitars?
- What Can be Done if a Pickup is Epoxied and Has a Shielded Single Conductor Cable. How Can You Reverse the Phase on the Pickup?
- My Pickups are Thin and Bright, How Can I Get a Fatter Sound?
- I Took the Cover Off of my Humbucker and it Stopped Working. What Happened?
- What are Some Winding Problems?