Pick-up wiring/mods

[Hink]

have it folks

[susiwong]

Cool links for diagrams, PU wire colours etc

- wiring diagrams

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/
http://www.dimarzio.com/support/wiring-diagrams
http://www.emgpickups.com/search/wiring
http://www.fender.com/support/articles. ... =downloads
http://www.gibson.com/Service/Tech/Schematics/
http://www.prsguitars.com/csc/schematics.html
http://www.ibanez.com/support/wiringdiagrams
http://www.lacemusic.com/wiring/wiring.php
http://www.guitarelectronics.com/catego ... _diagrams/
http://www.guitarnuts.com/wiring/index.php
http://www.guitarnucleus.com/schems.html
http://www.1728.org/guitar.htm
http://www.gmarts.org/index.php?go=236

- PU wire colour codes

http://www.stewmac.com/freeinfo/Electro ... codes.html
http://www.skguitar.com/SKGS/sk/Pickup% ... 0codes.htm

- forums

http://www.seymourduncan.com/forum/
http://www.dimarzioforum.com/forum/
http://forum.emgpickups.com/


- miscellaneous

http://www.guitar-letter.de/Knowledge/K ... tabase.htm (in german, but you might find something useful nevertheless)
http://www.blueguitar.org/schems.htm#MiscFX
http://www.buildyourguitar.com/resources/lemme/

Have fun,
susiwong

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Disclaimer:
While many of these links point to manufacturer sites, please don't automatically view them as endorsements of the products.
It is certainly interesting to check out those products, but by all means judge based on your own criteria.
This post is on wirings only, period.

[susiwong]

By Eric's request, here's the basic diagram for partial coil split (credits to Brinsley Schwartz for the idea and http://www.guitarelectronics.com/catego ... _diagrams/ for the diagram I modified):

In case your split positions could do with more balls, no problem, insert a capacitor into your split wire leading to ground (credits to Brinsley Schwartz for the great idea).
- A coil split shortens one of your two coils to ground, right ?
- A cap in series acts like a HP filter, so what happens ?
- The coil split & cap only shortens higher frequencies to ground, the crossover frequency being determined by the value of the cap.
- High frequencies are single coil, @ frequencies below fc the PU remains humbucking, even retaining some hum reduction capabilities.
- Cost for the mod maybe 50 ct for a handful of caps to find out the ideal value ...
- A good starting point for experiments would be the 10nF to 50nF range, same types you use for passive tone control.

(from my original post)
Hope that helps,
susiwong

[susiwong]

Varitone rotary switch

(from http://www.blueguitar.org/)
Most players don't like it, though it's quite useable for soul type backbeat "chicks" (not what you're thinking now ) or background parts ...
Ymmv,
susiwong

The Schecter cap/resistor treble bleed mentioned above also works fine, btw !

[Uncle E]

Thanks, susiwong! Here are some threads I found about turning the tone control into a passive high pass filter, which is what I'll be doing next:

http://www.metalguitarist.org/forum/gui ... s-cut.html

http://www.seymourduncan.com/forum/show ... p?t=213419

http://www.seymourduncan.com/forum/show ... =demud+mod

[Uncle E]

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[Hink]

I saw that yesterday but did not know about the code, thanx Eric...for everyoe else, this is a great kit to get your feet wet and there is a thread here about my build with pics along the way

[knockman]

I've been studying the wiring ideas on this blog: http://guitarwiring.blogspot.com/

Not sure if it repeats any of the links above.

For a beginner like me the diagrams and explanations there are very helpful. I'm currently building a single pickup guitar and thinking about the options.

[Uncle E]

I've been studying the wiring ideas on this blog: http://guitarwiring.blogspot.com/

It's great! I definitely want to try the Charvel-strat mod some day:

http://guitarwiring.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... arvel.html

These two adjustable treble bleeds could be cool:

http://guitarwiring.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... d-mod.html
http://guitarwiring.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... r-mod.html

I kind of dig on the volume drop switch, although it might be better to put in a volume-tone-bypass instead:

http://guitarwiring.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... r-mod.html

I really love the idea of using the volume pot as a tone switch, especially since I'm planning to turn all the tone pots on my PRS's into second volume pots:

http://guitarwiring.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... seful.html

[Hink]

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[Dean Aka Nekro]

My tip - If you have a HSS outfitted guitar, forget about the two Single-Coils, You can leave them as is but not wired up or flip them over and screw them down to sort of fill the gaps (Thats what i did). Treat yourself to an EMG 85 and you then have a metal tone machine with the EMG '18 Volt mod' already applied since your sending all the juice from the battery to just the one pickup. Totally bitchin' setup with 1xHB now plus a tone and volume control, Leaving in the 3-way selector is optional if you want a 'kill-switch' of sorts

YMWillDefinatelyV

Dean aka 'Nekro Butcher' (I wouldn't listen to me if i was me either)

On a more serious note, this is another manufacturer website. However it has good clips of each pickup so that someone looking to swap out stock pickups to give you an idea of what different models and magnets sound like:

http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/main/
Plus a useful forum, Although nothing on the scale of the Seymour Duncan forums! http://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php

[Dean Aka Nekro]

I've been studying the wiring ideas on this blog: http://guitarwiring.blogspot.com/

Not sure if it repeats any of the links above.

For a beginner like me the diagrams and explanations there are very helpful. I'm currently building a single pickup guitar and thinking about the options.

Cheers knockman, Its a good one, Well laid out/no clutter like some sites, Cheers man Its going to be the default one i use when/if i want to do something to one of my guitars pickup/control setup without endless debates about junk to distract

Dean

Not to say i dislike reading through the endless debate types sometimes but one has to be in the mood for that

[mztk]

excellent thread topic, thanks.

[obiwanjacobi]

In a tele I've assembled I've put in a volume pot with switch (push/push). The switch performs a total by pass of the tone and volume controls. So the output of the selection switch is connected directly to the output jack.

The switch switches the ground wires for both pots (volume and tone) and short out the pots on the hot wire. (hope that makes sense).

[2c]

[Dean Aka Nekro]

Marc I have a similar setup in one of my Jackson DK-2's, Its a tiny 2-way mini toggle that takes the volume and tone out, Mostly I use it for the bridge humbucker as you know I do not faff around That Jackson sports a pair of Bare Knuckle Warpigs, Bought them as soon as they were released. Its my second 'goto' guitar, Obviously for sweep picking whilst tapping also but mostly sweeping around I need the neck pickup to have some additional control over but personally on the bridge its mostly all systems go. So yeah total sense although I wouldn't fancy drawing out a diagram, Worth it IMveryhumbleHO if you are similar as in having the bridge always full on for example but obviously allows alot more flexability than just that

Dean