This article will cover Jackson guitar pickups and how to get them installed into your guitar. We’ll cover both single-coils and humbuckers, and will include all of the illustrations you need to install them in virtually any guitar.
In this article, we’ll provide a Peavey pickup installation guide to help you install any of their pickups into your guitar. Peavey isn’t known for their pickups, as DiMarzio and Seymour Duncan are, but they come stock on all Peavey guitars, so you’ll probably run across one sooner or later. We’ll discuss all of the […]
QUESTION Hi Humbucker Soup, Your website is very helpful and clear. I need some help with a problem. I bought a Dragonfire 3-way blade switch that has all the pole pieces in a straight line, numbered 1-8. Could you tell me which pole piece corresponds to which pole piece in a typical Grigsby 3-way blade […]
In this article, we’ll provide a diagram that demonstrates DiMarzio Tone Zone Tele Bridge Coil Splitting. The DiMarzio Tone Zone T is a mini-humbucker designed to fit into a single coil spot. It’s wound to replicate the tone of the standard size Tone Zone perfectly. It provides a rich, clear tone that cuts through without […]
Ever wondered how to coil-split a Gibson 61 pickup? If so, this guide will help. Coil-splitting is when you use a switch to turn off one of the two coils in the humbucker, thereby creating a single-coil sound. This can help brighten your guitar tone when you need to cut through the mix.
If you have a Mojo pickup and are wondering how to install it, we have you covered. This installation guide covers every style of Mojo pickup, and it shows diagrams for installing them in the most popular guitar styles. We’ll install everything from P90s to four-wire humbuckers. Before You Get Started With Your Mojo Pickup […]
Today, we’ll be illustrating a TV Jones pickup installation guide. With this, you’ll be able to install any model of pickup that TV Jones makes. We’ll cover single coils, P90s, and humbuckers, and we’ll even toss in a diagram showing you how to perform the coil-split modification on your guitar. Before You Get Started This […]
Question Hi Humbu, Have you come across something called crosstalk with 3-way selector switches in a Les Paul-style guitar? With all my volume and tone controls turned to 0 and my guitar connected to my amp, I can still hear a very small sound output when I strum. I have rewired this guitar myself, but […]
Question Hi there, There was a Squier Strat made in China in 1996 (called an NC6***) that has an odd 5-way switch. I have not figured out the wiring diagram and the odd switch with 7 tabs and not 8. I generally use a jumper from the unused tone tab for the bridge pickup and […]
Question Hi Humbucker Soup, I have a Tele with a standard single-coil in the neck and a twin rail humbucker in the bridge (4 wire) with a 3-way standard switch, 1 volume knob, 1 tone knob, and a DPDT On = On = On. The intention was to have the DPDT give 3 options for […]
READER QUESTION: Hi HBS, Thank you for the article on splitting a humbucker, using a push-pull pot. I’m doing the same thing, but the humbucker is in the neck position and the single-coil is at bridge position, with a 3-way selector. One volume pot and tone pot with a push-pull. I also have an open […]
Question Hi! Is it possible to mod a standard SSS Stratocaster using a 3-way switch so that position 1 is just the neck pickup, position 2 is the neck and middle pickups together, and position 3 is all three pickups? Thanks for your thoughts! Chris Answer Hello Chris, thank you for the great question. Unfortunately, […]