The Seymour Duncan SH-2N Jazz is a humbucker pickup with a clean and articulate tone that’s perfect for fast runs. Used as a neck pickup, it’s an excellent match for many of the brand’s bridge pickups. For this wiring installation, we’ll use four different colored conductor wires and a bare wire.
Today we’ll cover installing pickups into a two-pickup guitar with a two-pickup guitar wiring diagram. So, to start, we’ll demonstrate by modeling our guitar circuit after the Fender Telecaster, which uses two pickups, one volume, one tone control, and one three-way switch.
In this post, we’ll show you how to wire a DiMarzio Virtual Vintage Blues into your guitar. The Virtual Vintage Blues is a stacked humbucker that’s been designed to sound very similar to an original pre-1963 Stratocaster pickup, perfect for playing the blues. A stacked humbucker is two coils placed on top of each other, […]
The Fender Telecaster is a legendary instrument, but it can become frustratingly noisy at times, leaving you frantically searching for a way to quiet it down. Noise gates can help keep the noise under control when you’re not playing, but when you hit a note, and the gate opens, the noise comes through. Here’s where […]
This time around, we’ll be looking at how to wire a DiMarzio Fast Track 1. The DiMarzio Fast Track 1 is a mini-humbucker that uses two blades instead of steel posts. This design uses a single continuous magnetic field to create an even string balance with very little magnetic pull. The mini-humbucker design allows the […]
There are plenty of discussions on the web about the correct value pots to use for just single-coil pickups or humbuckers, but very little information about mixing humbuckers and single-coil pickups on one guitar.
Recently, someone asked me how to coil split a humbucker pickup, saying that he could find plenty of wiring diagrams online on how to split the pickup, but was unable to find one for his specific guitar and pickup combination.
If you live in an area with a lot of electromagnetic interference, you might be in need of a shielded guitar cavity. Shielding the control cavity is one of the key methods of getting maximum protection from interference. Shielding kits are often for sale online, but here are some excellent DIY methods you can use […]
If you get a lot of guitar hum, this article is for you. Aluminum foil guitar shielding can help protect your guitar from electromagnetic interference, significantly reducing and even eliminating noise.
In this section, we’ll take a look at proper guitar grounding and how you can make sure your wiring is safe and well-placed. We’ll also take a look at shielding and how you can benefit from correctly shielding your guitar.
This time around, we’ll be looking at how to wire a DiMarzio Virtual Vintage Blues 2 in your guitar. The Blues 2 is a stacked humbucker that uses Alnico 2 magnets for higher gain, and it works just as well in the neck position as it does in the bridge. It’s known for a warm […]
What’s better for your Fender, a 3 Way Switch or a 5 Way Switch? This is a topic that can be confusing to many people, so let’s start with some background information. The 3 Way Switch The 3 Way Switch is the switch initially used in Stratocasters when they were introduced in 1954. The Stratocaster […]