Troubleshooting
Seymour answers question to help you troubleshoot problems with your guitar and wiring.
- My Pickup Stopped Working and When I Press on it, it Works Again. Whats the Problem?
- My Pickup Rattles Around in the Steel Mounting Ring and it is Noisy if I Bump the Guitar, What Can I Do?
- As I Lowered the Pickup on my Stratocaster, it Fell Through the Pickguard, is There Anything I Can Do?
- I Want to Raise the Pickup Higher but it Won't Go. What Can I Do?
- I Have a Guitar with a Humbucker and a Single Coil but the Humbucker is Much Louder, What Can I Do?
- My String Got Hooked Under the Lip of the Pickup, Sound is Now Thin and Low Output. Why?
- My Pickups Work Fine Out of the Instrument But When Put in They Stop Working?
- I Was Tightening the Four Brass Screws on the Bottom of my Humbucker and One of the Heads Broke Off One of the Screws. How Can I Get the Broken Piece Out from the Bobbin?
- I Let a Friend Borrow my Guitar and Now the Pickups Don't Work. What Can I Do?
- My Epoxied Pickup Stopped Working, Can it be Fixed?
- My Pickup Has No Reading but Still Works. What Can Cause this?
- When Removing the Small Screws from My Mounting Rings the Screws Break in Half. What Can I Do to Prevent this from Happening?
- My Humbucking Pickup Reads About 8 K Ohms But Sounds Real Thin Like a Banjo. What Can Cause it to Sound Like that?
- I Have an Early 60's Gibson Firebird and the Pickup Cuts in and out When I Play. What Could be the Problem?
- I Have an Old P-90 Pickup with Laminated Plastic for the Top and Bottom. I Tried to Adjust One of the Pole Pieces and the Screw Head Broke Off. How Can I Get the Rest of the Screw Out Without Damaging the Rest of the Bobbin?
- My DeArmond Dynosonic Pickup was Hand Wound Last Year and Now the Coil Cuts in and out. What Could Cause the Problem?
- I've Noticed When the Weather is Warm my Pickup Works and When it's Cold, it Stops Working. What Could be the Problem?
- My Pickups Don't Line Up With the Strings, Can this Affect the Output of the Pickup?
- I Tried to Remove the Speed Knob From My Les Paul and Pulled Out the Shaft From My Potentiometer. How Can I get the Shaft Out of the Knob?
- My Single Coil Pickups Hum Really Bad When I'm in the Studio. Is There Anything that I Can Do?
- If the String Hits the Pole Piece on the Pickup, the Sound Completely Stops. Why?
- When I Use my Tremolo Arm on my Stratocaster I Hear a Spring Noise Out of my Amplifier. How Can I Stop it?
- I Use Metal Picks and When I Pluck the Lower Strings I Get an Unusual Sound Coming from the Height Adjust Screws. What Could Cause it?
- When Using Both Pickups on my Jazzmaster There is NO Hum, but Using One at a Time the Hum is Loud. Why?
- How Can I Fix Epoxied Pickups that are Out of Phase?
- When I Move my Guitar Cord the Signal Cuts in and out. What Can Cause it?