Many of us have amplifiers that use tubes. Often, there’s a set of power tubes, along with a set of preamp tubes that need to be changed from time to time. This article will take a close look at the preamp section, to see how the tubes work and how they differ from power tubes.
READER QUESTION: Hi HBS, Thank you for the article on splitting a humbucker, using a push-pull pot. I’m doing the same thing, but the humbucker is in the neck position and the single-coil is at bridge position, with a 3-way selector. One volume pot and tone pot with a push-pull. I also have an open […]
Question Hi! Is it possible to mod a standard SSS Stratocaster using a 3-way switch so that position 1 is just the neck pickup, position 2 is the neck and middle pickups together, and position 3 is all three pickups? Thanks for your thoughts! Chris Answer Hello Chris, thank you for the great question. Unfortunately, […]
One of the easiest modifications you can perform on your guitar is splitting your humbucker pickup. Today, we’re going to show you Seymour Duncan Custom Custom coil splitting, in just a few easy steps. The Custom Custom is a high-output pickup that’s well suited for the coil-splitting modification, and it should result in an extra […]
Question Hello, I found your article on the DPDT switch and coil splitting. I’m trying to help my nephew wire up a modified Les Paul JR with a single humbucker with 1 volume 1 tone plus an on-off-on switch. Your diagram is the closest I’ve come to finding one online – do you by any […]
In this article, we’ll illustrate how to install DiMarzio Vintage P90s into your guitar. The DiMarzio Vintage P90 is a single-coil pickup in the style of vintage Gibson PAFs. These soap bar pickups use dual Alnico 5 sand cast magnets, and coils wound on a vintage winding machine. Vintage coil tape, braided single-coil conductor wire, […]
This article will discuss how to install a few different types of Joe Barden pickups into your guitar. Joe Barden pickups can suit virtually any guitar, and a long list of well-known players use them, including Bruce Springsteen, Danny Gatton, Jimmy Thackery, Kevin Eknes, Ted Turner, and many more. You can find Joe Barden pickups […]
In this article, we provide a House of Tone pickup installation guide, which includes the diagrams you’ll need to install every type of pickup they make, from P90s to four-conductor humbuckers. House of Tone pickups are from the United Kingdom, and they’ve been making pickups for many years. They have a large selection of pickups, […]
Here’s a Van Zant pickup installation guide that shows you how to install any type that they create, from vintage P90s to modern humbuckers. We explain the details in the text and provide you with an illustration for each kind of pickup.
The Seymour Duncan Custom Custom isn’t a typo. It’s a high-output humbucking pickup that resembles the well-known Seymour Duncan Custom, but with some slight variations. We go into this in greater detail and create a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom wiring diagram to help you get this pickup installed in your guitar.
With this Bartolini installation guide, we’ll show you how to install every type of passive guitar pickup that they make. Founded in 2010, Bartolini is a California-based company; the founders, Bill and Pat Bartolini, have been working on pickups long before starting their own operation, and this experience has given them insight into the types […]
Recently, we covered how to wire a Fender Stratocaster from scratch, to create a pre-wired harness. In this article, we’ll explain how to do the same thing, with the aid of a Telecaster wiring diagram. If you own a Fender Telecaster, this guide can be useful in solving a number of problems, such as rewiring […]