Rectification (2)

The second guitar to have its innards looked into was my Jackson DKMGT. See the 2 push-pull knobs there? 

1. Coil-split selector
2. Turbocharger pre-amp selector

Since the Turbocharger (defunct) could accept other passive pickups, I had the EMG-HZ removed & replaced with a pair of Tesla pickups: Plasma 3 (bridge) & Plasma 7 (neck). The EMG-HZ are fine pickups, they sound good in many other guitars but in this Jackson, they are too fuzzy especially with the Turbocharger activated. The Teslas are simply wonderful in this application, a wonderful boom & some slicing lead tones to be heard.

Turbo!

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:

1. Replace default pickups- Turbo Charger or not, I don't fancy EMG's HZ humbuckers in this guitar
2. Replace default capacitor

Will book an appointment with Beez.