In this post, we’ll show you Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates wiring for your guitar, with the hope that you’ll enjoy the new sound possibilities. The Pearly Gates is a humbucker that was designed to replicate the sound of a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard, which used the legendary P.A.F. pickups. Each Pearly Gates pickup is […]
500k vs 1 Meg potentiometers — what’s the difference, and how do they affect your tone? To answer that, we’ll take a look at your guitar’s Volume and Tone controls and see how we can modify them, and, perhaps make some significant improvements. These parts are relatively easy to swap out, and the job only […]
Ever considered coil-splitting a Seymour Duncan ST59-1? If so, this article can help you. Coil-splitting is when you use a switch to shut off one of the coils in your humbucker pickup. When you do this, you get access to single-coil tones. It expands your sonic palette and is a straightforward and reversible mod.
Looking to wire a Seymour Duncan ST59-1? Let’s start with some basics: the ST59-1 is a mini-humbucker, designed as a direct replacement for the bridge pickup in a Fender Telecaster, but it will also work well in many other situations. The ST59-1 offers players hum-free operation and a thicker tone that still retains plenty of […]
What Do Capacitors Do In Your Circuit? Capacitors do many different things, but in your circuit, they do two main things.
DiMarzio Titan Coil-Splitting Coil-splitting is when you use a switch to shut off one of the two coils in a humbucker pickup. We split a humbucker because it gives us the ability to expand our tonal pallet, and allows us to achieve single-coil tones from a double coil pickup. Here, we’re going to show you […]
One of the most common problems associated with a tube amplifier is replacing a faulty tube. This is largely because there are many different types available, and many have multiple names. In this post, we are going to look at one of these confusing examples: ECC82 and 12AU7 tubes.
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 […]
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.
In this post, we’ll show you how to wire a DiMarzio IGNO for your guitar. This pickup features DiMarzio’s patented dual-resonance design and scatter-wound coils, and it uses Alnico 8 magnets for greater output. The DiMarzio IGNO is a new humbucker developed for Polyphia guitarist Scott LePage.
If you are a guitar player looking to create your own unique sound, one of the best ways to do this is to build your own equipment from scratch. A good portion of “Guitar Electronics” is just very simple circuits that can be built and modified at home.
In the last article we talked about building our own single coil pickup, so this time, we’ll talk about making double coil guitar pickups. If you missed the single coil article, you can check it out here: Building Your Own Electric Guitar Pickups – Part 3.