pickup wiring help

hektik · Post by **hektik** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:59 am

i'm putting my guitar back together, I have a humbucker for the bridge, I also have a 3 way selecter switch, and I'm pretty sure what is a coil selecter switch, too.

My guitar had the 3 way switch, and another 3 switches that just went up and down, I'm pretty sure it selected which coil on the humbuckers.

I'm only going with a bridge pickup, my question is can I still have that 3 way switch along with the coil selecter switch, or would it be pointless to have those, and just go with a single humbucker and a volume?

AoD · Post by **AoD** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 4:40 pm

single humbucker and volume

hektik · Post by **hektik** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:04 pm

fuck now i have to fill another hole and sand it. i already painted it and left 3 holes (one volume, the switch, and the pick up selector) oh well it's all good. at least i didn't clear coat it yet

AoD · Post by **AoD** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:39 pm

what are you filling them with?

AoD · Post by **AoD** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:41 pm

it seems easier to just put the switches back in and just not wire them to anything, or maybe have them control a stupid noise effect like a BOOYA, face punch or mooing cow noise

The Doctor · Post by **The Doctor** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:44 pm

Sounds like you have some sort of coil tap thing going on.

What are your pickups and how many?

hektik · Post by **hektik** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:41 pm

pretty sure they're stock yamaha rgx1220j pickups.

i filled in all the holes, so i just have a volume knob hole right now, i just need to put the pick up in, figure out how to wire it up, and be on my merry way to shredding again

the humbucker has three wires in a sleeve: a bare, a white, and a red. how do i connect these to the volume knob to the output jack?

hektik · Post by **hektik** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:55 pm

picture one: volume control knob with the a jacket with a bare wire in it and two shielded wires, one white, one red. The pickup has the same kind of wires. A jacket with a bare wire, a red, and a white.

the other knob in the third pic has a single bare strand that was soldered to the bridge (i have a floating tremelo), and two other ground wires. It also has another jacket with a bare wire and one white wire.

what the fuck do I do?

AoD · Post by **AoD** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:25 am

hektik · Post by **hektik** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:30 am

my soldering gun for some reason will not fucking solder. clean tip and all. maybe the tremelo thing is dirty? Either way I just was on my stomach on my floor trying to solder the dumb fucking thing for about an hour and wanted to start crying, then wanted to stab my guitar...probably would've done both if I didn't just give it a totally sweet paint job. I need to smoke some weed.

AoD · Post by **AoD** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:41 am

get some flux

hektik · Post by **hektik** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 6:49 pm

my pickup has one red, one white, and one bare. that diagram doesn't seem to be helping.

Richard The Duke · Post by **Richard The Duke** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:03 pm

hektik wrote:my soldering gun for some reason will not fucking solder. clean tip and all. maybe the tremelo thing is dirty? Either way I just was on my stomach on my floor trying to solder the dumb fucking thing for about an hour and wanted to start crying, then wanted to stab my guitar...probably would've done both if I didn't just give it a totally sweet paint job. I need to smoke some weed.

Don't forget to use solder.

hektik · Post by **hektik** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:08 pm

hektik · Post by **hektik** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:29 pm

shes almost done

hektik · Post by **hektik** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:40 pm

the person who owned it before me had all kinds of different colored wires going to other colors and switches, so I didn't know what went where.

all i have is one humbucker and one volume and of course the output jack.

the humbucker has three wires in the sleeve: one bare wire (threadlike), a white wire, and a red wire.

i have two volume knobs. one of them has a sleeve: one bare wire (threadlike), one white wire. the other wires soldered to it is a bare wire (just a single strand, and a black wire.

the other volume has a sleeve: one bare wire, one white, one red. the other wires soldered to it is a black wire, and another bare wire (not a single strand like the other, it's threaded wire)

the output has a sleeve with another sleeve: one bare threaded wire and one white wire.

hektik · Post by **hektik** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:26 pm

Dawdy · Post by **Dawdy** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:22 pm

ok either the red wire or the white wire is your hot wire. the other wire, along with the bare wire are ground wires. you have to figure out which one is the hot wire. trial and error i guess

if you look at this diagram, the black one is the hot wire, the green and bare are ground wires. so you have an idea what goes where. i find this diagram easier to understand than the one above, even though its for a Duncan. ignore the red and white wires taped together

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wi ... =1hum_1vol

hektik · Post by **hektik** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:09 am

none of these diagrams make any sense. theres more wires in the diagrams than I have coming from my pick up. I have three fucking wires and that diagram has five.

I'm just gonna say fuck it, and buy an EMG 81 and make my own trem blocker. it shouldn't be this goddamn complicated. would this be a good pick up to buy? gimmie some suggestions. i'm gonna be playing thrash/death so i want something that's gonna have a lot of crunch and give me clear lows and mids but not sounding too thin

Dawdy · Post by **Dawdy** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:27 am

thats why i said ignore the red and white wires in that Duncan diagram, those are for coil splitting or whatever its called. The 3 wires coming out of your pickup, one is the hot wire (the sound), the other two are ground wires. The bare wire is always going to be a ground. So try soldering the red wire to the prong, and the white and bare to the bottom of the pot. If that doesnt work, switch the white and red wires.

AoD · Post by **AoD** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:56 pm

just take off all the wiring and start over from scratch instead of tryin g to figure out which one of those goes where, much easier

hektik · Post by **hektik** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:11 pm

Id rather get a good pick up instead of using the stock one. I'm not sure if it will sound as good as it did because I had a bunch of coil tap switches on it, so who knows if i'll have the tone i once did.

emg 81? yes?

Dawdy · Post by **Dawdy** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:38 pm

EMG 81 or Duncan JB

DBS · Post by **DBS** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:11 am

clean your fucking fingernails!

hektik · Post by **hektik** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:45 am

I was working on my guitar all day you ass! I ain't perfect. They're clean now though!

AoD · Post by **AoD** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 4:54 am

this might be the best "thrash pickup ever, give me a bag and its yours.

The Doctor · Post by **The Doctor** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:21 pm

hektik wrote: emg 81? yes?

6 months ago I'd have said no...

But now, definitely.

I have an 81 and a 60 in my Explorer and an 81 in my Korean Fender. I wouldn't use anything else.

CFH Eternal · Post by **CFH Eternal** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:27 pm

I hate EMG's, just pick up a Bill Lawrence L500XL online for cheaper.

That reminds me I need to sell my EMG set.

hektik · Post by **hektik** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 4:15 pm

AoD wrote:this might be the best "thrash pickup ever, give me a bag and its yours.

a bag of what? when i come there its a date. ill bring my guitar and we can shred together. or ill bring my bass guitar and we'll shred with some redneck grooves

AoD · Post by **AoD** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:31 pm

h, pills, weed, whatever.. its a dimarzio x2n, i also have a bill lawrence 500xl.. it sounds good but more bluesy than thrashy like the x2n.. you can try them both out and see which one you like better i guess

Mescalito · Post by **Mescalito** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:57 pm

hektik wrote:

shes almost done

what the fuck

PABassPlayer · Post by **PABassPlayer** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 3:22 pm

Mescalito wrote:
hektik wrote:

shes almost done
what the fuck

I was waiting for someone to comment that he destroyed a perfectly fine guitar.

The Doctor · Post by **The Doctor** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:05 am

CFH Eternal wrote:I hate EMG's, just pick up a Bill Lawrence L500XL online for cheaper.

That reminds me I need to sell my EMG set.

I hated them once upon a time too, but when I discovered how much better they sound High Gain/CGCGCE tuning compared to a passive pickup, I was swayed. I've grown to hate the sound of a tuned-down guitar with passive pickups. Too muddy and cut-up sounding.

hektik · Post by **hektik** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:43 am

PABassPlayer wrote:
Mescalito wrote:
hektik wrote:

shes almost done
what the fuck
I was waiting for someone to comment that he destroyed a perfectly fine guitar.

big deal. i payed 40 bucks and a dimebag for it and hate the color red. i win