Tarin
May 10th, 2010, 08:34 PM
I' trying to fix a friends guitar... it's an 80's Yamaha SE-260 guitar, strat style with 2 humbuckers (coil split) and a Floyd Rose (Yamaha's version).
The problem with the guitar is that it has very low volume, you have to krank the amp quite high to hear a sound... and once yo get to hear it, the sound is awful, no distortion whatsoever even using a high gain Marshall setting on my pedal, just sound muddy and flat.
Since i got to mod my Parker P38 with much success (bypassed the pickups and the piezo system from the powerchip... it's now a passive guitar), i thought i could fix anything on a guitar.
I opened the backplate and noticed nothing wrong at first sight, except for a few wires wich were barely holding on by a thread. resolder them, cleaned the volume and tone pots, cleaned the input jack... put on a new set of strings (old ones were pure rust), adjusted the Floyd, plug it in... nada.
Same results... maybe just a little more volume but with the same muddy-low-volume tone.
Waddaya think? change the pots? pickups?... help?
The problem with the guitar is that it has very low volume, you have to krank the amp quite high to hear a sound... and once yo get to hear it, the sound is awful, no distortion whatsoever even using a high gain Marshall setting on my pedal, just sound muddy and flat.
Since i got to mod my Parker P38 with much success (bypassed the pickups and the piezo system from the powerchip... it's now a passive guitar), i thought i could fix anything on a guitar.
I opened the backplate and noticed nothing wrong at first sight, except for a few wires wich were barely holding on by a thread. resolder them, cleaned the volume and tone pots, cleaned the input jack... put on a new set of strings (old ones were pure rust), adjusted the Floyd, plug it in... nada.
Same results... maybe just a little more volume but with the same muddy-low-volume tone.
Waddaya think? change the pots? pickups?... help?