Hi everyone, a few weeks ago I started a thread asking what pick up shoud I get and decided to get a PAF 7
Ibanez RG7321 pick up question
So it finally arrived and I installed it yesterday (bridge position) with help of manual and this diagram
http://www.dimarzio.com//media/diagrams/C.pdf.
Here is the photo and my own diagram explaining how how I installed it into my RG7321
I thought I did it right (but again I'm a noob in these things) but at the end result was pretty bad.
It sounds pretty much like stock pickup on 7321 or maybe even worse.
Higher notes are almost impossible to hear, lower notes with some crazy distortion are alright altough a lilttle bit more quiet than they used to be beofore and no different from stock... Also I noticed that it's a lot harder to do harmonics and there is a lot less sustain. With not significant amount of disstortion it sounds like @#$%#@$ , or as a bass with very little overdrive. There is almost no sustain on higher notes - especially past 15th fret, sound fades away almost instantly and again - highs sound as if there was no distortion at all. Also it looks like tone knob does almost nothing (or maybe im just being paranoid)
it's kind of hard to explain it all but I think it's pretty clear that there is something wrong with either pick up or the way I installed it (I hope it's the second one and can be fixed) because it sounds worse than stock pick up I had.
Any ideas about wtf did I do wrong?
Thanks