Jag HH wiring

[siam]

Hi, I need some help with rewiring my Jaguar HH special MIJ. Maybe someone can point me into the right direction.

The wiring is a standard Jaguar setup with 1Meg pots and .01 resitors. The stock Humbucker were replaced by a P33 (P90 style at neck) and a humbucker at the bridge position.
The problem is: Neck PU sounds quite nice even a bit bass heavy but I would like to keep it as it is. Could be a tad brighter.
The bridge PU sounds terrible. It is a decent humbucker by David Barfuss. Maybe not the hottest one but should sound quite nice. I tried to replace pots with 500k and it did sound better. But I didn't like the sound of the neck PU so I changed it bacl

Any idea what would be the easiest way to improve? Right now I only use the neck PU and don't care much about the 2nd neck circuit. I wouldn't mind a simple Les Paul setup.

[alexpigment]

Have you tried raising the bridge pickup and slightly lowering the neck pickup? That's should get them more in the same ballpark so that you have a better chance of EQing your amp/pedals so that they both sound good. Having said that, conventional wisdom is to have a hotter bridge pickup than your neck pickup so that neither is too muddy or thin, but you're asking for the simplest way, and I assume that means not buying new pickups.

Note: changing the pickup heights as described might make you like the 500k pots better, but you can obviously just turn the tone knob down to 7-8 to get a roughly similar effect.

[ChrisDesign]

You have two knobs at near the jack, so a standard Les Paul wiring job is impossible; but you know that. I can draw you a wiring diagram of volume pots at the bottom, tone pots at the horn? Or would you like a different setup?

[siam]

That would be awesome. Let me think about a setup.

[Embenny]

If you wire it with volume pots by the jack and tone pots in the rhythm section, be sure to shield everything well. There will be two of those super-long wire runs (from output plate to rhythm plate) compared to one in a standard jag layout, so it'll be more prone to noise.

[jorri]

If you like the bridge with a lower value pot, but neck to remain same, you can add a fixed resistor i think. A 1meg or 500k to ground off the bridge hot wire, or even a trimpot. I think a 500k would reflect changing two 1meg pots to 500k.

Parallel resistor law:
2*1meg=500k. 2*500k=250k. (2*1meg)+500k=250k. (Not actual addition, the equation is 1/r and more confusing than worth it)

But maybe it changes volume taper i am not sure if you mind.

Also i think play with pickup heights. Some guitars like the bridge higher (same distance to string if it were fretted last fret) and others just same distance to open string imho.

[siam]

That is a good point to add a resistor. Easy to be done.

I did try different hights of the PU.

[siam]

@Chris Design,
did you get my PM? I'm not sure if that went through.

Best
Gerrit