Let’s discuss the Seymour Duncan SM3 wiring and how you can install this miniature humbucker into your guitar. The SM3 features two overwound coils with a high carbon steel blade in each. The steel blades help provide a more even output during string bends, and they eliminate misalignment. The SM3 uses an Alnico 5 bar […]
Before You Start In this article, we assume that your guitar is already wired up and working correctly, and that you have at least one Lindy Fralin Modern PAF installed. If you need help installing your pickups, please check out our article titled Lindy Fralin Modern PAF Wiring Diagram.
In this article, we’ll take a look at installing Lindy Fralin Modern PAF pickups. These pickups have a thick, warm sound that helps high notes push through the mix, preventing them from sounding thin and brittle. The lower register notes are punchy, but they don’t lose their clarity, even when using overdrive.
This discussion assumes that you already have your Railhammer Alnico Grande pickup installed and that it works correctly. If you need help with installation, please reference the Railhammer Alnico Grande Wiring Diagram .
Let’s take a look at how to install Railhammer Alnico Grande pickups. As you’ll see in the wiring diagram, Railhammer pickups are quite unusual: half of the humbucker features rail-style blades, and the other half features standard posts.
If you have a DiMarzio PAF Master installed in your guitar, coil-splitting the pickup can be an easy way to add some versatility to the sound of your guitar. If you’re not familiar with coil-splitting, it is a process that deactivates one of the coils in a humbucker, giving you a single-coil sound. This article […]
This short DiMarzio PAF Master wiring guide shows you how to install these fantastic pickups into your guitar.
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.
Let’s talk about how to coil-split a Seymour Duncan SM2. The Seymour Duncan SM2 is a mini-humbucker, and as with most humbuckers, you can perform a simple modification that shuts off one of the coils, resulting in a tone close to a single-coil pickup. You can engage or disengage this modification using a switch.
Let’s discuss the Seymour Duncan SM2 and show you how to install it into your guitar.
Single pickup guitars are quite common, and wiring them up or changing the pickup is not too difficult. The challenge is finding a wiring diagram for the brand of pickup you’re installing. So, for this article, we’ll provide steps and a wiring diagram for a single pickup guitar.
Single-coils are well-known for being noisy, and that’s because they are very similar in design to an AM radio antenna. Single-coil pickups exhibit many of the same tendencies to collect noise from the air. Humbucker pickups use two coils wound in opposite directions to cancel out the noise, but those pickups are known for having […]