DiMarzio Titan Wiring The DiMarzio Titan is Jake Bowen’s signature guitar pickup, a humbucker designed to stand out in a three-guitar environment. This humbucker has a lot of emphasis on the midrange frequencies and stays clear under high gain situations. The Titan is a high output pickup that uses a ceramic magnet, and it’s installed […]
One of the most common problems that guitar players face is a worn out Volume or Tone control. You can tell when one is becoming worn out by the loud, scratching sound in your guitar signal when you turn the potentiometer up or down.
What is Coil Splitting? Coil-splitting is wiring a humbucker pickup to a switch that shuts off one of its two coils. We do this because it gives us the ability to expand our sonic range and get single-coil tones from our two-coil pickup.
Guitarists are always looking for ways to coax new and exciting tones from their guitars. One great approach is humbucker pickup splitting, which means using a switch to turn off one of the two coils in the pickup, causing it to sound and act more like a single-coil pickup. A split humbucker provides a crisper, […]
Guitarists are always looking for ways to get fresh tones. Amplifiers and effect pedals do a great job of shaping your sound once it leaves your guitar, but there are also many simple modifications that you can make right in the body of your guitar, thereby unlocking a world of new tones.
Making Single Guitar Pickups In this article, we’ll discuss making single guitar pickups, and how building them from scratch can be such a rewarding and worthwhile experience. The design is simple and the steps are easy to follow. Another benefit of the design is that winding the coil by hand offers the opportunity of having […]
Coil-splitting humbuckers Many of our mini toggle switch FAQs begin with an inquiry into whether or not you can coil-split just any humbucker. Theoretically, any humbucker can be split, but in practice, it’s dependent upon the way the manufacturer has built the pickup. To split a humbucking pickup, you need one with four lead output […]
Push-Pull Pot FAQ What is a coil-split pickup? A coil-split pickup is a humbucker that is split in such a way that it only uses one of its two coils. This is useful to guitarists who use humbuckers but occasionally want a single-coil sound.
Welcome to Part 3, on how guitar pickups work and how you can build your own. In the last article, we discussed the way the magnets and coils work, and the way they work together to create the sound that you hear. This time around, we’re going to look at the tools, pickup parts, and […]
In the last section, we discussed the different kinds of pickups available to the guitar player. So now, we should have a good idea of why we would use each type and we should also have a rough idea of how each type works. And from that last article, we probably also remember that the […]
This is the first in a series of articles in which we will discuss every aspect of the guitar pickup. We’ll cover, with as much detail as possible, how pickups work, the different types, and when to use each. So, let’s get started.
Let’s take a look at the difference between gold plated and silver plated guitar jacks. Which one’s better?