Post Type Archives: Faqs

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 one coil to be disabled by shorting one coil to either ground or hot. All production…

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 ups as well as a phase switch on the bridge humbucker and a series/parallel switch for…

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 a particular tone when used together with the bridge. If a pickup is too close to…

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 experience some output loss. The prices are the same for the Active & Passive models (but…

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 resistor is often used to fine tune each pickup. Since each coil that we wind is…

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.

If you have checked here and still can’t find the right wiring diagram we recommend checking out http://www.guitarelectronics.com, a great shop in Arizona that has diagrams on their site that we do not and will draw a complete custom wiring diagram for a small fee. They also have a lot of schematics listed for free…

Yes. Nearly all our humbuckers and Trembuckers come with optional gold or nickel plated covers. And for humbuckers you can special order them in black nickel, black chrome or a black powder coat. The only exceptions are the pickups that don’t have standard pole pieces, like the Invader, Dimebucker, Stag Mag and Parallel Axis Trembuckers….

When the Discovery Channel needed someone to build the world’s biggest pickup for their series BIG!, who did they call? Seymour Duncan! Here’s some exclusive pictures from inside the Seymour Duncan factory where Seymour and his crew hand made every part of this (certified) world record breaking 158 pound P.A.F. style pickup: from laser cutting…

Occasionally we’ll get a request for a reverse zebra humbucker. It’s a zebra humbucker with the cream and black bobbins switched. We call this “reverse zebra”. Which coil will be which gets kind of confusing, so we’ve made a handy chart. A picture truly is worth a thousand words. Reverse Zebra Chart.