I took my neck pickup completely off the pickup switch and gave it it's own switch so I could mix all 3 pickups any way I wanted. (I was too cheap to buy a 7-way switch.) And broke the pickguard in a completely unrelated location (it's a piece of crap anyway, and I'm getting a black pearloid to replace it.) But now there are 3 problems. They're kinda minor, but still.
1.) The volume with all 3 pickups active is low. Although that happened with 2 pickups mixed, just not as bad.
2.) My tone controls don't work independently when all three are mixed, but seem to work together somehow. Not what I want, and not too useful.
3.) Occasional random pop sounds happen. Maybe related to the capacitor between the tone pots.
Any idea? Mainly #1, since I don't use my tone controls too often because the sound of my Squier pickups strangely rocks for clean tone through my particular setup. And I'm not concerned with #3 too much because I plug direct-in to the sound system, so nobody can pin it on me.
1.) The volume with all 3 pickups active is low. Although that happened with 2 pickups mixed, just not as bad.
2.) My tone controls don't work independently when all three are mixed, but seem to work together somehow. Not what I want, and not too useful.
3.) Occasional random pop sounds happen. Maybe related to the capacitor between the tone pots.
Any idea? Mainly #1, since I don't use my tone controls too often because the sound of my Squier pickups strangely rocks for clean tone through my particular setup. And I'm not concerned with #3 too much because I plug direct-in to the sound system, so nobody can pin it on me.