New Air Norton is way too bassy

[Shreddy Mercury]

I installed this Norton/Air Norton combo in one of my Warriors. 1 volume, 1 tone, 5 way super switch. I copied the original layout exactly and the switch operates like it's supposed to. Position 1 is bridge, position 5 is neck, so on and so forth. Anywho, the Norton sounds fantastic, but the Air Norton is ridiculously bassy, and downright muddy. I've lowered the pickup some, it barely helps. I've adjusted the pole pieces up and it doesn't really do anything. It cleans up ok when rolling off the volume, but under gain it's just gross and unusable. When playing over a backing track with a solo it does pretty well, but I'd never be able to use the neck for any kind of rhythm playing down near the nut.

When it had the previous dual X2Ns in it, it did the same thing. I always had to turn the bass down and add treble on the amp to get it more usable. Does anyone have any idea what I could check? Maybe the wrong value cap was installed when it was built? Who knows...I just want it to sound good.

My other guitars with various DiMarzios or Duncans in the neck sound great and sing. They have a wee bit of bassiness because of them being in the neck position, but this Air Norton is nearly unusable for lower riffing under distortion.

 

[DanTravis62]

The Dimarzio sounds like shit? Crazy, man.

In all seriousness I have a guitar that had this EXACT same problem - every humbucker, no matter what brand, output, magnet that I put in the neck had an OBSCENE amount of bass that could not be dialed out no matter what I tried. It wasn't the wiring. It wasn't the cap values. It was just inherent to the guitar.

That guitar went through over 20 different humbuckers in the neck. I put a duncan phat cat in the neck which kind of sort of worked, but not really.

In the end @scottosan sold me some weird custom A2 (??) humbucker he had around, and it was literally the only pickup that ever worked in that guitar, so it's still in there. I have no idea what's going on with that pickup, you'd have to ask him, but it certainly worked. It's still in the guitar.

It's fucking crazy because I know exactly what you're going through I think. At least in my case it wasn't the electrolytics or anything like that, it was just that specific guitar for whatever resonances, neck joint, rout position, had an obscene amount of low end in the neck.

Good luck and godspeed. Like I said, it took me 20 or more different humbuckers to find one that worked.

 

[WizardAmpIphoneClip]

You've experienced the Dimarzibloat

 

[the rossness]

Have you tried lowering it?

 

[shredi knight]

Have you tried lowering it?

Have you tried reading the first paragraph of his post?

 

[Techdeth]

It needs written in my writing to be better understood

Have you tried reading the first paragraph of his post?