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I have red, green, white,
black and silver wires coming from my pickup.
Which one gets wired where?
>> Firstly, it depends on who made your
pickup. Different manufacturers use different
schemes for their humbucker pickups. Here are
some common ones:
| Manufacturer |
Coil
#1 Hot |
Coil
#1 Cold |
Coil
#2 Hot |
Coil
#2 Cold |
| Seymour Duncan |
Black |
White |
Red |
Green |
| Gibson |
Red |
White |
Green |
Black |
| DiMarzio |
Red |
Black |
White |
Green |
| Bill Lawrence |
Black |
Green |
White |
Red |
| Tom Anderson |
Red |
Green |
White |
Black |
| Jackson |
Green |
White |
Red |
Black |
| Schaller |
Green |
White |
Brown |
Yellow |
In all cases, the silver (braided or foil cable
shield) should be connected to the guitar earth,
usually on the back of a volume control. For a
standard humbucker sound:
- use the coil 1 hot as the pickup's hot connection
- connect coil 1 cold and coil 2 hot together
(and tape them so they don't touch any other
connection)
- connect coil 2 cold to earth
 [See
diagram.] If a pickup is out of phase
with others on the guitar, reverse the
hot and cold connections on both coil
1 and coil 2. If you want to switch
between a humbucker and single coil
sound, connect the coil 1 cold/coil
2 hot junction to a switch which connects
them to earth.
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