I need help wiring my Seymour Duncan's into my RG470!

[kevoszka]

Hello to you reading this!

I am trying to figure out how to go about wiring up my Ibanez RG 470, and I'm not quite sure what to do. I'm not to familiar with wiring, so I'm not sure how I should go about doing this. I have SH-10 neck & bridge pickups (Full Shred) and I have one SHR-1 for the middle (Hot Rails). I am using an Ibanez style 5 way toggle switch... as shown




This is the guitar I'm wiring.. ^^^

I also am using 2 500k pots (1 Volume 1 Tone)

All the diagrams I've found have different color wiring than the Duncan pickups I'm using, and since I'm a beginner, are a little too much for me to try and figure out what wires are what.. Also, should I use capacitors in this wiring? I've seen diagrams with and without them.

Any help would be appreciated! Sorry if any of these sound like dumb questions!

[Varg]

You will need a capacitor for the tone pot.

What is it you want to do with the wiring? Are you wanting the humbuckers to split automatically when you have them in the 2 and 4 positions (as Ibanez tends to do) or do you not want them split at all, or what? Do you want the Hot Rail to split?

Something like this I believe will work for you but it depends what you want to do.

[Mosher Zone]

Hello to you reading this!




!

Nice guitar you should post it in the Ibanez thread.

[kevoszka]

You will need a capacitor for the tone pot.

What is it you want to do with the wiring? Are you wanting the humbuckers to split automatically when you have them in the 2 and 4 positions (as Ibanez tends to do) or do you not want them split at all, or what? Do you want the Hot Rail to split?

Something like this I believe will work for you but it depends what you want to do.

I want them to work like this...



Will the wiring diagram shown above wire the guitar this way?

Also, all three pickups have a red white green black and bare wire, but on the diagram above there are only 2 wires shown coming from the middle pickup. Do I not need to use all the wires from the middle pickup?

[Varg]

I want them to work like this...



Will the wiring diagram shown above wire the guitar this way?

Also, all three pickups have a red white green black and bare wire, but on the diagram above there are only 2 wires shown coming from the middle pickup. Do I not need to use all the wires from the middle pickup?

Yes, the wiring diagram I posted should do what you want. The diagram shows a single coil in the middle, but you are going to be wiring your Hot Rail as if it were a single coil, so it will be the same. Your Hot Rail will not use the red or white wires, so join them and tape them off then ignore them. You will use the bare and green as the ground (to the back of the pot as per the diagram) and the black as the hot, to the switch.

I think I have all that right, but I have had a few beers tonight, out at the in-laws.

[ehdwuld]

be sure your switch is
this one


and not the one with 2502N printed on it


I have two Ibby's with very different 5 ways

[Varg]

be sure your switch is
this one


and not the one with 2502N printed on it


I have two Ibby's with very different 5 ways

Whats the difference?

[Varg]

Although to be honest, I would swap that crappy switch out for a better one anyway. Im not normally one for swapping switches and pots etc, but I dont like those cheap switches.

[kevoszka]

Thanks Varg! Just one last question. Do I wire the ground that gets attached to the tremolo spring covers to the back of the volume pot?

[Ashurbanipal]

^^ Don't know about covers but if you're talking about the claw onto which the trem springs hook then yes, otherwise you'll have excess noise and weak output.

I second Mosher - post your axe in the Ibanez thread!

[ehdwuld]

Whats the difference?

one is made for 2 hum guitars
and this


and the other is like the OP described
with two mirrored poles



EDIT
that should be a black square in the top right of the last chart
I need to fix that