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 […]
Let’s take a look at a Railhammer Nuevo 90 wiring diagram, which will get you up and running with a great P90 tone. The Nuevo 90, as you may have been able to tell from the name, is Railhammer’s modern take on the vintage P90 pickup. It features much of the same sound associated with […]
If you have one of the new modern Railhammer Hyper Vintage pickups, you may be wondering if there’s a way that you can modify it to get access to the extra single-coil tones created by coil-splitting. This article will explain how to construct this modification yourself.
Reader Question: Hello HBS, I would like to modify the wiring of my Fender Mustang tone knob so that it affects only the bridge pickup. It’s a newer model and I have attached the wiring diagram from Fender. Is this an easy mod? Is it even possible?