The Watering Hole

Hey all,

Just dropped a Dimarzio Chopper in my new Tele. When I opened the Dimarzio packaging, there was the following message:

"This pickup is in phase with our full size humbuckers, but not with most single coil pickups, nor with our HS series pickups. To be in phase with this type of pickup, make the Green Wire hot and the Red wire ground."

Here's all the info on the install:

Since I'm still using the stock neck pickup (single), I wired it Green hot (to the pickup selector), Red ground (soldered to the ground screw behind the pickup). I taped the black and white wires together and stored them in the wiring cavity.

Pots are still stock 250K pots and nothing has been done with their wiring.

Normally Green is ground and Red is Hot on Dimarzio pickups.

Right now the bridge (Dimarzio Chopper T) sounds anemic compared to the neck pickup, even with the bridge pickup very close to the strings and neck in stock position (which is lower than the bridge at the moment). The Chopper is a humbucker, but my neck is a single.

So, here's my question: Is Dimarzio wrong and should I reverse the Red and the Green wiring?  I know, sounds like a dumb question.  But I had to ask.   :D

Any advice is appreciated.

two suggestions:

run the ground to the other grounds (single gather point) - probably on one of the pots.

if that isn't it, then recheck the white/black connection and make sure that splice is insulated - can't short to ground when everything is put back together.

if those dont do it... third suggestion!  re-solder everything you soldered.

White/Black connection was the answer.  She's firing on all cylinders.   ;)

After listening to some Ritchie Kotzen, I had to snag me a Chopper.   ;)