I'm trying to put some cheap pickups into my diy SG as there's no point having pickups of any value in there, bought a pre made wiring thing for the pots and switch so just have to solder the pickups to the pots.
There are three/four wires from the pickups though and I've just realised I haven't a clue what I'm doing or where to solder them.
https://i.imgur.com/HOdVQnG.jpgThere's a yellow one, a red and white one which seems to be twisted together, and a black one. And they're all made out of ticky tacky... Oh no that's a different thing isn't it
And here are my pots:
https://i.imgur.com/J57ynmy.jpgWhere do I solder each one? I was expecting there to be one wire on each pickup to solder to the sticky out bits on the respective volume pots and then a black one to solder to the back of the pot as a ground, but the extra one/two (depending if they're meant to be twisted together or not) has thrown me
Thanks in advance
Matt
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Assuming that the existing connections are correct, the reading from yellow to black should be double the reading from yellow to red or from red to black. This would indicate that yellow is full humbucker output and that the red/white pair is the series link between the two coils of the humbucker.
Connecting the red/white pair to ground will coil split the humbucker.
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Anyway, the rest of it - assuming the red and black wires loop round to the switch, which I assume they do since there's no other way for the jack to connect to it - does actually follow basic Gibson wiring, although the tone caps are connected between the pots and ground rather than between the volume and tone pots, but they will work the same.
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Your revised control circuit for the Jazz Bass is a disaster.
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For a guitar it's awful. A lot of far-east Gibson copies come wired like that - it always greatly improves things to rewire them Gibson-style, even if you don't change anything else.
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The wiring kit thing was a cheap £10 job off Amazon as I've already spend a load of money trying to work round this pile of junk so that could be it, but seriously, how wrong can I keep getting this????
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