Let’s take a look at how to wire a Les Paul. You can this wiring diagram as a reference when installing new pickups or changing an old component. There are many different brands of pickups you can install into your guitar, and once you know the pickup’s wiring code, the rest of the installation is […]
One of the most frequent questions that we receive is about selecting the correct value for the volume and tone controls. The standard convention is to use 500k pots when you use humbuckers and 250k pots when your guitar has single-coil pickups, but what would happen if you switched the values, or used one of […]
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 […]
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.
Reader Question: Hello HBS, I would like to modify the wiring of my Fender Mustang tone knob so that it affects only the bridge pickup. It’s a newer model and I have attached the wiring diagram from Fender. Is this an easy mod? Is it even possible?
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 […]
In this post, we’re going to look at a SOLO ESK-35 wiring diagram. The SOLO ESK-35, which is a kit guitar, is a clone of an ES-335 style semi-hollow body guitar.
Let’s take a look at how to coil-split a Seymour Duncan SH-2N Jazz. Humbucker pickups are usually wired to use both of their coils at the same time; coil-splitting is when you use a switch to shut off one of the coils to make it sound much like a single-coil pickup. Splitting the pickup will […]
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.
In this article, we’re going to talk about coil-splitting a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails humbucker with a toggle switch. If you’re handy enough to install a toggle switch into the pickguard of your guitar, you’ll find that it’s often the easiest solution for coil-splitting as well as many other modifications.
In this post, we’ll take a look at shielding a Gibson SG. The SG is one of the easiest guitars to shield because they usually have two humbucking pickups that eliminate most of the noise from the start.
In this article, we’ll take a look at the unique design of the Fender Esquire guitar and walk through an unusual single pickup Telecaster wiring diagram. What makes the Fender Esquire so unusual? It’s a one-pickup Telecaster that features a three-way switch. For those unfamiliar with what this switch does, or how it can be […]