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bend the pickups while you are doing this. Some fine
scratches in the metal will not hurt the performance.
To test the pickups, plug the pickups into an amp. (If you
have a Trinity System you can plug a mono guitar cable
into the endpin and you will hear the pickups only.)
Hold one pickup at a time about 3/4” (2cm) from the
pickup head on the cable and tap the pickup with your
finger. Do this tapping in both directions, so that you
tap the black side and the golden side. You can do this
quite hard. The tapping sound will be amplified and all
pickups should produce about the same volume.
There should not be any missing taps. There should not
be any loud “crackles.” If the pickups test out fine, you
can reinstall them. Make sure that all glue residue is
cleaned off the wood of the bridge plate or guitar top.
Smooth the wood surface until it is perfectly straight
and clean.
9. TROUBLESHOOTING
MY PURE SYSTEM SOUNDS WEIRD AND HOLLOW
This is probably an installation issue. First, check if the
pickups are positioned correctly on the bridge. Then,
test if they are solidly adhered or if they come off easily.
If peel-and-stick installation was used, output will not
be as good as with superglue installation.
There are several things that could go wrong during
an installation, but the one factor that seems to be the
dominant one is that not enough glue was used. This
