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I just bought an Ibanez Q series in non working conditions, the neck and middle pickups don’t work and the tone knob doesn’t work.
Opened it up, the tone knob is an unsoldered wire (see second pic), which I’ll figure out where to solder… the pickups use this connector I’ve never seen before that is broken, both three pin connectors are loose.
What to do? Can this be replaced? I’ve never seen them before but I think they’re supposed to be some sort of “easy swap” system…
By the way, I also wouldn’t mind to get a different sets of single coils, but I wouldn’t know how to get these “quick swap” baseplates…

I just bought an Ibanez Q series in non working conditions for a great price, the neck and middle pickups don’t work and the tone knob doesn’t work.
Opened it up, the tone knob is an unsoldered wire (see second pic), which I’ll figure out where to solder… the pickups use this connector I’ve never seen before that is broken, both three pin connectors are loose.
What to do? Can this be replaced? I’ve never seen them before but I think they’re supposed to be some sort of “easy swap” system…
By the way, I also wouldn’t mind to get a different sets of single coils, but I wouldn’t know how to get these “quick swap” baseplates…

So, I recently started playing with a band that rehearses regularly in a studio which, while nice enough, in my opinion has the most unbalanced selection of amps ever: 2x Orange Rockerverb, a Marshall JCM2000 and a JCM900… I play a Fender Deluxe Reverb or a Roland JC120 that I use as pedal platforms.
At the first rehearsals with them I really really struggled to get a sound I liked. I plugged into the Orange that was super dark and impossible to brighten up without distorting. Bear in mind I need to play some funk rhythms that need to be crystal clean.
Would any of the Marshall’s be better next time? I am actually familiar with both but I’ve never used them in this context and with this board?
The photo is from a month or so ago, I’ve swapped the ODR for a bug muff that I need for a song

I have a gig with a band playing all sort of pop and rock classic and I’ve been trying to find the perfect axe for it among the ones I own.

I decided for my AZ but I’m not happy with the bridge pickup in this context.

Reason is while the SD Fortuna sounds absolutely great, it’s a very low output HB which lets me down in the more hard rock 80ies tracks where I need a more powerful lead sound.

I figured I’d try to swap it given I have plenty of guitars with PAF style HBs and it could make it into the super versatile HSS I want it to be.

Duncan JB?