Wiring a pickup direct to jack
Wiring a pickup direct to jack
Can someone point me in the direction of an instruction for wiring a humbucker direct to the output jack - no vol, tone or selectors etc. I'm assuming I'll need a capacitor somewhere.
When my Mutt Pup arrives I'll have a spare SD JB so I was going to stick it in a crappy old guitar for a bit of fun. Also, its a 4 wire pickup, I'm assuming I can just not bother with the split coil wires and it won't be a problem providing I insulate the ends.
When my Mutt Pup arrives I'll have a spare SD JB so I was going to stick it in a crappy old guitar for a bit of fun. Also, its a 4 wire pickup, I'm assuming I can just not bother with the split coil wires and it won't be a problem providing I insulate the ends.
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I wouldn't have thought you'd need a capacitor. Those are used on the tone pot to bleed away high frequencies to ground, aren't they?
Haggard Musician
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I've no idea.
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Lol. Wire the hot pickup lead to the tip lug of the jack, ground to sleeve. Done. No caps, No pots.
Rebel Yell
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LOL - the old pickups were proper shit. They're not even normal size single coils - they don't fit into a normal strat pick-guard, even though the guitar is basically a strat.
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Record some JB clips before you put the Mutt in the guitar and then record the same thing through the same settings with the Mutt.
Rebel Yell
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Yeah, was going to. Use my best JB tone and use one of my basic punk tracks. Full JB one side, split JB the other, then chug, strum and pick my way through the chord sequence. Then do the same with the Mutt.
I'll post up both full mixes and the 4 dry guitar tracks.
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If it's a four wire pup you will need to hook the two start leads together and the two end leads together then treat it as a normal two wire pup. One lead to ground one to hot. No cap needed.... as you re not running it through any other pots it would just be full bleed or no bleed.... pointless.
Edit: Not sure that reads right? You need to establish which leads are from which col and pair them up so you have two hot connections twisted together and the two ground connections the same.
Edit: Not sure that reads right? You need to establish which leads are from which col and pair them up so you have two hot connections twisted together and the two ground connections the same.
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Cheers. That'll probably become obvious when I remove it.muttley wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2017 5:03 pm If it's a four wire pup you will need to hook the two start leads together and the two end leads together then treat it as a normal two wire pup. One lead to ground one to hot. No cap needed.... as you re not running it through any other pots it would just be full bleed or no bleed.... pointless.
Edit: Not sure that reads right? You need to establish which leads are from which col and pair them up so you have two hot connections twisted together and the two ground connections the same.
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It only matters if you are pairing it with another pickup and polarity and wind direction come into play when you want to mix them on a single output. Then phase and hum issues present.
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I'll be doing this this weekend. I fact, i think I might make a start shortly.
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The Balti-Caster lives!!!
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wired direct to jack?
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Yeah. One pick up, no knobs. Will do a comparative tone with it and when the JB was in my custom tomorrow.
It still needs either refretting or a new neck.
It still needs either refretting or a new neck.
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