Pleeease help!?!? Has anyone upgraded thier PRS SE with US TREMONTI pickups?

[Richard Wilkins]

This is my first post so Hi.

Has anyone upgraded their PRS SE with US TREMONTI pickups?
If so could you please do me a huge favour and post a picture of the wiring.
I have just had mine installed by a good friend and they seem to work well but there is a strong buzzing noise if the bare silver wires arent touching the outer wood in the cavity.

I would love to see a picture of the wiring cavity of some fully working ones to compare?

Please help

Richard

 

[Hedonismbot]

Something is wrong with your grounding. Can you post a picture of the control cavity?

 

[Richard Wilkins]

Thank you for the reply. I hope this picture helps.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v6lehtyd4hineez/IMG_9289.JPG?dl=0


When we removed the bridge pickup it had 2 wires. (Black and white). However the new pickup had just one silver cable with a black wire. You ca see on the pic where this is wired to

The neck pickup we removed also only had 2 wires. (Black and white) However the new pickup has 5! We wired the black and white ones to the same places those colours were wired to with the old pickup.
We then had a red and a green which we have joined together and taped off which the wiring diagram told us to do. We were then left with the bare silver wire which I think the instructions calls 'shield to ground'

I have no idea where this is supposed to go. I assume it is earth? It is made of the same material as the single wire from the other pickup.

Both pickups buzz unless these cables are touching something. In my case I have temporary taped them to the sides of the cavity which is working for now, but I would like to get this sorted properly if you or anyone else could please help. Its really appreciated

Richard



https://www.dropbox.com/s/v6lehtyd4hineez/IMG_9289.JPG?dl=0

 

[Mikegarveyblues]

the silver ground wires from the pups should be soldered to the back of the pots. From the pot a ground will run to the ground on the output jack. You've grounded the pups to the shielding paint in the cavity which is touching the pot casing thus grounding it. It works temporarily but you need those pup grounds properly soldered to the back of the pots.

 

[Richard Wilkins]

Thank you. I will get that done.
do the other wires look correct?

 

[Richard Wilkins]

The neck pick up only has one wire but it is the black wire and is surrounded by a weaved silver enclosure.
Do I leave the black Where it is and solder the weaved metal surround I mentioned to the pot (as that seems to work)??

 

[Mikegarveyblues]

The neck pick up only has one wire but it is the black wire and is surrounded by a weaved silver enclosure.
Do I leave the black Where it is and solder the weaved metal surround I mentioned to the pot (as that seems to work)??

That's it!

The woven wire is your ground. It grounds to the back of the pot which is ground to the output jack.

 

[Hedonismbot]

That's it!

The woven wire is your ground. It grounds to the back of the pot which is ground to the output jack.

This ^

The 5 wire pickup is known as 4-conductor wire. The fifth bare wire is your ground wire and always is ground to the. Back of your pkts. The four wires are a start and finish for each coil of the humbucker. This to allow for series/parallel, in/out phase, and coil-split wiring. The way you have it wired right now is correct for standard humbucker mode. If you wanted to add a switch to split the humbucler to single coil mode, all you have to do is wire it so the two wires that are taped off run to ground when engaged.

All pickup producers use different color codes. It sounds like PRS is coded so the white runs to output, black and bare to ground, green and red together and taped off. I have more experience with Seymour Duncan Pickups. They have the black run to output, green and bare to ground, red and white together and taped off. The other pickup you mentioned is standard single conductor working. The wire goes to the output and the metal sheath gets grounded to the back of the pickup.

If you are ever in need, Seymour Duncan's website offers gobs of free wiring diagrams. They also have a forum full of people who can offer wiring advice including yours truly (my screen name there is ExplorersRock).

Hope that you are now buzz-free.

 

[Todd_FindingMyWay]

Let us know how it worked....I asked Santa for Tremonti pick ups for my CU24 SE

 

[Richard Wilkins]

That seems correct.
All is now working so thanks alot everyone!!

I do get a little hum but my noise gate resolves that