Neck pickup problems! HELP!

[mistadoom]

Hello good people! I have a question regarding the sounds coming from my neck pickup.
I have an Orville By Gibson Les Paul custom and the neck pickup is giving me trouble.
It seems as whenever I roll the tone pot back with the neck p/u engaged, the pickup begins sounding thin and nasally. This is ESPECIALLY true when I run the guitar through a silicon fuzz (tone control at any position) and the saturation sounds flat and weird.
What could be causing this? Is a bad tone pot to blame? Or is something wired wrong? Or is the neck pickup going bad? I believe the guitar came with 57 classic pickups.
Thank you

 

[ARandall]

Are you sure the tone pot is actually wired as a tone? The opposite should happen....unless its been wired as a spin-a-split, or the tone is poorly grounded etc.

Maybe a few (in focus) shots of the wiring for us to try and guess what is going on.

 

[JHMvP]

"Spin-a-split"?
That's a new one for me but I've read some articles about this kind of wiring and I must say that I'm actually stunned that this isn't discussed over here MUCH more often!

Anyway, back to on-topic...

 

[LtKojak]

Hello good people! I have a question regarding the sounds coming from my neck pickup.
I have an Orville By Gibson Les Paul custom and the neck pickup is giving me trouble.
It seems as whenever I roll the tone pot back with the neck p/u engaged, the pickup begins sounding thin and nasally. This is ESPECIALLY true when I run the guitar through a silicon fuzz (tone control at any position) and the saturation sounds flat and weird.
What could be causing this? Is a bad tone pot to blame? Or is something wired wrong? Or is the neck pickup going bad? I believe the guitar came with 57 classic pickups.
Thank you

Time to get a new, hi-q harness.

Good vendors here; MartinSixStrings, Jonesy, Tundratone, RSguitarworks are the first that come to mind... unless you're in Europe, then *I* would be able to help you. PM me if that's the case.

You can thank me later.

 

[p90fool]

It seems as whenever I roll the tone pot back with the neck p/u engaged, the pickup begins sounding thin and nasally.

Check for any dry solder joints first, it's often quicker just to re-flow all the joints than to painstakingly examine them all with a magnifier. Another possibility is that you have a break in the windings of the pickup itself - the sound you're describing is a classic symptom of this.

Need more info - has it recently started acting up? Have you disturbed anything, changed/removed/added pickup covers? That kind of thing.

People on here always recommend a mega-expensive harness from their favourite vendors no matter what the problem, something along the lines of; "Hey, my car won't start!" "Buy a new one!" "That fixed it, thanks!"

Yes, if there IS a dry joint that will fix it, but c'mon guys...

 

[gtr-tek]

I would put a meter on the pup first. This will help you eliminate a variable. Then, check all solder connections and clean the pots with some de-oxit. Did the sound change gradually over time or has is always sounded like this since you got it?