This is an overdue update but better late than never. These are the 3 knobs of my Jackson DKMG, just regular knobs, yes? 2 tone + 1 volume except that one of the volume knob is out of order; it doesn't work...
But it gets a little suspicious when I discovered one of the tone knobs (or so I thought it was) has a push-pull switching system in tact so Jackson had a coil split feature in there- cool. But it doesn't solve the mystery of the dysfunctional knob; it still doesn't work...
So after a quick peek under the control cavity lid, Jackson has the EMG Turbo Charger pre-amp as default in this guitar. The thing about discontinued models is that we take some of the default features for granted. Why was it dysfunctional? Dead battery; this guitar was in store for at least 3 years so the default battery was beyond dead... the battery you see in the above pic is a fresh replacement (well, it was fresh in January).
Plans for this guitar next week:
- Replace default pickups- Turbo Charger or not, I don't fancy EMG's HZ humbuckers in this guitar
- Replace default capacitor
