- Soldering is a relatively easy technique, but like anything else, a little instruction goes a long way. There are many excellent videos on the Internet that show proper soldering technique. Two are here Basic Soldering - Part 1 and...
- Yes they can be but Seymour Duncan and Fender pickups are magnetically opposite. Many players find that after installing a Seymour Duncan bridge single coil into a Strat they must switch the Fender mid and neck position pick ups...
- The STC Tone Circuits require about 3mA of operating current. Nearly all phantom power circuits feed the voltage through 6.8K resistors. 3mA flowing through a 6.8K resistor will produce a 20.4-volt drop across the resistor. If you are working...
- Sometimes if the break is at the end of the coil winding, the wire can be unwound a couple of turns and a new lead wire attached. If the break is anywhere else, the pickup would need to be...
- At Fender's® request, the JD Tele® schematic is not available for publication. In the meantime, for your reference, here are the selector switch specifications: Position ONE: The neck (Strat®) pickup with the tone circuit OUT, affording a clearer, brighter...
- Yes Seymour Duncan humbuckers are compatible with the PRS-type 5 way switching. If you are replacing the bridge pickup, the magnet will first need to be flipped to correct phase issues related to the parallel wiring and series coils...
- We do offer rewinding service. Rewind single coil starts at $65.00 and it will depend on type of pickup. Rewinding Humbucker will start at $85.00. If you're interested, please contact our Custom Shop at 805-964-9610 between 8 am -...
- With humbuckers it can be as simple as changing the hot and ground connections or flipping the magnet. To correct phase problems with single coils is harder because the pick ups must be both magnetically and electrically out of...
- With two humbuckers connected by a switch in phase pick ups will sound normal, while out of phase humbuckers will sound weak and nasal. This is because out of phase humbuckers result in a lot of low and mid...
- It's not necessary with our system. Most bass players want to be able to switch to passive because they're afraid that their battery might die in the middle of their solo. This is a valid concern with a lot...
- If the humbucker pickup has a cover it must first be removed. Then you must remove the tape that is wrapped around both bobbins. If there is tape around the individual bobbins, it should be left intact. Loosen but...
- To make your Strat® sound more like a Les Paul®, you probably want to install one of our single-coil sized humbuckers like the Little '59, JB Jr., Hot Rails or L'il Screamin' Demon, depending on what type of tone...
- Our Little '59 and Hot Rails for Tele® would give you the most Les Paul®-like sound from your Tele®. Both of these are humbucking pickups. The Little '59 is made to give you '59 Les Paul "Patent Applied For"...
- In order for an H/S/H guitar to be noise canceling it is necessary to split the humbuckers in the #2 and #4 positions. Then you must make sure that the single coil in the center is both magnetically and...
- Put the Duncan GREEN wire to the 5-way switch where the original PU's red wire went. Put the Duncan RED & WHITE together (solder them together and tape them off). Put the Duncan BLACK wire to the S-1 switch...
- As a rule pickup installation is fairly simple but some guitars and switching layouts are more difficult than others. If you have basic soldering skills, a little mechanical aptitude and the ability to follow very simple color-coded diagrams you...
- Pot is a shortened version of the word potentiometer. A potentiometer is a variable resistor and they are most often used in guitars to control volume and tone levels. The quarter sized (sometimes as small as a dime) round...
- Push pull pots are potentiometers with switches installed on the bottom to the pot chassis. The stem of the pot can be pulled to activate the switch. The most common varieties are SPST on/off and DPDT on/on. Push pull...
- Series and parallel wiring usually refers to two separated but related issues. The most common usage refers to how two coils in a humbucking pick up are connected to each other. With series wiring the individual coils are connected...
- While coil splitting and parallel wiring sound very similar to most players, there are some differences. One difference is output. Splitting a 16k ohm DC resistance humbucker results in an 8k ohm single coil and that translates into a...
- All Seymour Duncan humbuckers with four-conductor hookup wires incorporate a standard wire color code. GREEN = start of adjustable/south coil RED = finish of adjustable/south coil BLACK = start of stud/north coil WHITE = finish of stud/north coil For...
- A basic 30 watt or 40 watt soldering kit usually contains all the tools needed to install a pickup, including the iron and solder, a small standard and Phillips (crosshead) screw driver, and a small pair or wire snips....
- SPST stands for single pole single throw and DPDT stands for double pole double throw. A SPST switch is a simple on/off type switch and can be used for coil splitting and as a kill switch for the guitar....
- Phase refers to the relationship of two sine waves (signals) to each other. If both signals are at their highest peak (+) at the same time they are in phase. If one signal is at its highest peak (+)...
- First, let's define some terms. "Machine Winding" - a machine spins the bobbin and moves back and forth at a regular pace, distributing the wire evenly across the bobbin. "Hand Winding" - a machine spins the bobbin, but the...
- A coil tap refers to a lead connected to an individual coil's winding and is used to raise and lower a pickup's output and change its tone. This is most often utilized on single coil pickups where the player...
- Coil splitting refers to the ability to disable one coil in a humbucker-type pickup. This offers the player option of getting a single coil-type tone from a humbucker-loaded guitar. Many pickups have three- or four-conductor wiring that allows for...
- The Jimmy Page wiring is a fairly complicated switching system made famous by Jimmy Page and was later used in Gibson's line of Jimmy Page Les Pauls. It uses four DPDT switches and incorporates coil taps for both pick...
- A good starting point for the distance from the bridge pickup to the strings is 3/32 of an inch. The neck pickup can be set to provide a good output balance when compared to the bridge or to produce...
- The difference between the two preamps is the value of some of the components. If you use the wrong one, you may experience limited range in the treble control. Also, when you blend two pickups to together, you might...
- At the end of the production process, all STK-S4 pickups are fine tuned for hum-canceling. Each pickup is essentially 'injected' with hum, and measured for the amount hum it cancels. To achieve the maximum amount of hum-canceling, a small...
- The two most common reasons are to make different manufacturers' pickups phase compatible and also it is necessary in order to get PRS 5 way switching to work properly....