When it comes to guitar shielding, the two most common methods are paint and tape. Both approaches are relatively inexpensive, and there are many brands of each available. Let’s take a look at which one is better at preventing RF noise, extraneous static, and hiss in your signal.
If you’re looking to shield your guitar from radio frequency interference and reduce the amount of hiss in your signal, here’s an inexpensive way to make DIY guitar shielding paint that looks great and gets the job done. There are many brands of pre-made shielding paint available, as well as several metal tapes that work […]
This installation guide will help you set up any type of Lollar pickup. Whether it’s single-coils, vintage P90s, or modern humbuckers, we have you covered. This easy reference explains which wires go where, and includes illustrations that will make the instructions simple to follow.
In this post, we’ll show you how to install every kind of Lindy Fralin guitar pickup into your guitar. We cover installing modern single-coils and humbuckers, as well as vintage P90s and PAF-style pickups. We’ve also included illustrations to show you the wiring schematic of each pickup in different types of guitars.
Have you been searching forums for a Gibson 61 pickup wiring diagram? If so, this guide is for you! The pickup for the Gibson 61 is a humbucker that has one slightly overwound coil that creates a unique tone, compared to other humbuckers. These pickups are reverse Burstbusters, which you might be familiar with. They […]
In this article, we’ll illustrate a DiMarzio Bluesbucker wiring diagram and guide you through an installation of this unique humbucker. The Bluesbucker sounds like a P90, so you get the vintage tone in a silent humbucker design. It uses technology that helps the pickup see a narrower string window than standard humbuckers, which makes it […]
In this guide, we’ll show you how to wire DiMarzio pickups into any kind of guitar. We’ll cover everything from single-coils to P90s to humbuckers. If you like DiMarzios and are planning to install different models of pickups, this guide is for you!
Ever thought about adding a bass rolloff modification? If so, this guide can help you. Ordinarily, when you turn the tone control, you roll off the high-end frequencies, and the tone becomes warmer. With this modification, we can reverse that, so when you turn the tone control, you roll off the low frequencies, and the […]
This Seymour Duncan installation guide will help you install any Seymour Duncan pickup model into your guitar. Seymour Duncan pickups are time-tested and there’s a large selection that fits any style or genre. Artists that use Seymour Duncan pickups include Slash, Jennifer Batten, Jason Becker, Joe Bonamassa, Dimebag Darrell, Steve Harris, Yngwie Malmsteen, and many […]
In a recent article, we discussed a guitar modification called the Lindy Fralin partial tap resistor. This alters the pickup splitting modification to allow you to use it with weaker pickups. Without this modification, you might not ordinarily split a low output pickup, because the volume dropoff would be too great.
This Wolfetone Installation Guide will show you how to install any Wolfetone pickup model into your guitar – from vintage P90s to the modern-day high-output humbucker. Wolfetone began making high-quality pickups in 1998, on a single Singer sewing machine. Today, it’s a large company that produces every type of pickup.
Let’s take a look at how to coil-split a Seymour Duncan SM3. Splitting a humbucker is a beginner-level modification that requires very few tools and only costs a few dollars. The Seymour Duncan SM3 is a mini-humbucker, but it has all of the same properties that a full-sized humbucker has, and you can split it […]