Let’s take a look at how to install Railhammer Alnico Grande pickups. As you’ll see in the wiring diagram, Railhammer pickups are quite unusual: half of the humbucker features rail-style blades, and the other half features standard posts.
If you have a DiMarzio PAF Master installed in your guitar, coil-splitting the pickup can be an easy way to add some versatility to the sound of your guitar. If you’re not familiar with coil-splitting, it is a process that deactivates one of the coils in a humbucker, giving you a single-coil sound. This article […]
This short DiMarzio PAF Master wiring guide shows you how to install these fantastic pickups into your guitar.
In this article, we’ll cover installing a DiMarzio PAF 59 and include a wiring diagram. We’ll also go over any other components you may need. Changing the pickups is a great way to improve the tone of your guitar, and few other modifications will have as significant an impact.
Let’s talk about how to coil-split a Seymour Duncan SM2. The Seymour Duncan SM2 is a mini-humbucker, and as with most humbuckers, you can perform a simple modification that shuts off one of the coils, resulting in a tone close to a single-coil pickup. You can engage or disengage this modification using a switch.
Let’s discuss the Seymour Duncan SM2 and show you how to install it into your guitar.
Single pickup guitars are quite common, and wiring them up or changing the pickup is not too difficult. The challenge is finding a wiring diagram for the brand of pickup you’re installing. So, for this article, we’ll provide steps and a wiring diagram for a single pickup guitar.
Single-coils are well-known for being noisy, and that’s because they are very similar in design to an AM radio antenna. Single-coil pickups exhibit many of the same tendencies to collect noise from the air. Humbucker pickups use two coils wound in opposite directions to cancel out the noise, but those pickups are known for having […]
Reader Question: Entwistle x90 Les Paul Wiring Diagram Hello HBS, I’m rebuilding a Les Paul Gold top copy (Custom77 French Builder) as a first guitar rebuilding project. I bought the wood part and took off all the electronic parts to start from scratch, with just the basics. Wiring was unreadable and so badly made, compared […]
Let’s take a look at how to wire a Les Paul. You can this wiring diagram as a reference when installing new pickups or changing an old component. There are many different brands of pickups you can install into your guitar, and once you know the pickup’s wiring code, the rest of the installation is […]
Why use a Lindy Fralin Partial Tap Resistor? You can only coil-split humbuckers, which means that you can use a switch to turn off one of the two coils that make up the humbucker. The resulting tone is usually much less powerful. The guitar will drop in volume, but the tone will brighten; your humbucker […]
One of the most frequent questions that we receive is about selecting the correct value for the volume and tone controls. The standard convention is to use 500k pots when you use humbuckers and 250k pots when your guitar has single-coil pickups, but what would happen if you switched the values, or used one of […]