DiMarzio PAF Master Wiring Diagram
This short DiMarzio PAF Master wiring guide shows you how to install these fantastic pickups into your guitar.
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Dimarzio PAF 59 Wiring Diagram
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.
Railhammer Nuevo 90 Wiring Diagram
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 […]
Railhammer Hyper Vintage Coil-Splitting
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.
Railhammer Hyper Vintage Wiring Diagram
In this short guide, we’ll show you how to install a Railhammer pickup in your guitar. The Railhammer is a relatively new brand of pickup that came to the market in 2012. These pickups feature a unique design that uses rails to pick up the sound from the bottom three bass strings and use posts […]
Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates Coil Splitting
In this post, we’re going to show you how to coil-split Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates pickups. Humbucker pickups are usually wired so that they use both coils at the same time. When you split the pickup, however, you shut off one of the coils, making it perform like a single-coil pickup.
Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates Wiring Diagram
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 […]
Seymour Duncan ST59-1 Coil Splitting
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.
Seymour Duncan ST59-1 Wiring Diagram
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 […]
Mini Humbucker Versus Firebird: Which is the Better Guitar Pickup?
There are so many different kinds of pickups available, that it can become difficult to sort through the ever-growing list to choose the best one for you.
ST59-1 Little 59, by Seymour Duncan
The Seymour Duncan ST59-1 Little 59 is another mini-humbucker designed to deliver more of a Rock tone from your Tele. It features two coils side-by-side, and uses a ceramic magnet for high output and a brighter high end. Designed with Gibson’s first humbucker in mind, the Little 59 is meant to have that PAF (Patent […]
Single Coil and Double Coil Pickups – What Are the Differences?
To fully understand what we’re talking about when we say single coil and double coil, we’ll first take a look at the different parts of a pickup and see how they work together to produce a guitar signal. Then we’ll examine single coil and double coil pickups, the differences between them, and why you would […]