I Just wired up my guitar. I used two hum buckers with a three way switch and two volume and two tone control knobs. This is my first major wiring job, and I must have done something wrong, as it doesn't sound very loud at all, the knobs don;t all work, and don't do what they are supposed to do, it doesn't make sound when plugged into my tube amp, only my cheap bass amp, it makes loud scratchy sounds when I mov the three way switch, when I flip the three way switch, it doesn't seem to do anything, and for some reason, pedals don't work with it, as in distortion pedals don't add distortion. If any of you are well versed in wiring, could you please help me figure out what I did wrong? It would be a huge help. Thanks a lot,Grant
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I don't know for sure, but I think if you used red wire, and not red&white wire, it would have worked. Blue wire works best for blues tone. Black and red wire conjures up the devil in your sound, but the white confuses him... or so I've been told.
I could be wrong but it looks like you may have your hot and ground reversed on the output jack. Try that first. If that's not it your probably going to have to backtrack the whole thing.
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I don't know for sure, but I think if you used red wire, and not red&white wire, it would have worked. Blue wire works best for blues tone. Black and red wire conjures up the devil in your sound, but the white confuses him... or so I've been told.