Thank you to everyone who supports this channel. If you like this video I have lots more coming. If you have requests for videos like this let me know in the comments
Yes. Video idea Where do we look for guitars to practice on. Fix them up and resale. Not even profit but practice. Seems they always require more than the value can handle???
Hey Phil! How about making or repairing instrument cables. Mainly TS, TRS, and XLR? Seems like something that could be a useful skill since cables are so expensive and it seems fairly simple. Of course, not simple enough to not make a video about 😂
Actually, I'd really like to see how to wax my covered humbuckers for my Firefly 338! (I know) not sure if it would be worth it but I'd like to try it but.... Great channel btw! Lol
Tomorrow my switch comes. I got the one you said you like best. I have an electronics background. (My father was a robot)... that's a joke.... so this looks incredibly easy. The Pups are TV Jones PowerTrons.... I will let you know if they sound good coil split or not. ....2 days later, yes! Excellent sound! These pups are hotter other TV Jones and I used the 500k pot. They sound noticeably closer to the Fender tone I am after. If you can afford a Fender then thats the best option but if $10 is all you can muster then this is a viable option.
Thanks so much for this video. I got a used guitar and one of the wires came loose probably during shipping. The guy who soldered it might be the only man on Earth whose skillz with a soldering iron are worse than mine. Every lug had solder on it (I'm guess he installed via trial and error) so I had no idea which one the wire fell off of. Thanks again my guitar works but I'm probably going to take it to a pro and have this mess sorted out.
Thanks for the great video! Is it possible to use the same kind of push-pull pot to do series/parallel switching? I would love to see a video on that..😃
Oh the annoyances of these damn things. BUT.....they work....Cut my teeth on these buggers when I stuck a DiMarzio FRED in a bridge of a Michael Kelly T-type guitar. Wired for tapping rather than splitting. Wonderful Video, Phil! And excellent work on your showcase video of all your guitars!
May i suggest a complete serious on how you would approach building a guitar from start to finish over the next few months , thank you very much, i know there are alot of tips on your channel spread throughout but if its a series it can be easier to find and really easy to learn with steps
Call me dense but I would not be confident in wiring up a switch after watching that Phil. Slow down, take your time. If I want to do that job, then I have the patience to watch a longer, clearer video.
This says more about you. You’re probably better off taking it to someone who knows what they’re doing, I’m a computer engineering student and this was a really easy guide to follow along. Wired my Jaguar with no problem
@@userdeleted4723i think that was precisely his point. A slightly longer video could help those who are not computer engineer students. This as a general feedback. But this is also a free video, so one should see it that way and be grateful that someone found the time to put it together and share it for free.
Wiring is my weakest skill. For some reason I've struggled to understand parts of it my whole life. I've wired 100's of guitars, built pups, done repairs for years. As long as I have a diagram I'm ok. I'm really glad these will be here for a reference!! Thanks much Phil!! 8) JMHO --gary
Great information, and simple enough explaning what to do. My only problem is that us older folks have hearing issues (among other things) and for me you talked really fast. It required me stopping and backing up a good bit so it ended up being a lot longer than it was. That's all. We aren't all young ladies and men 😉. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! It is very much appreciated. 😁😎.
Is there a way two have 1 push pull pot for 2 humbuckers with independent volume for each? I mean when pushed controls volume of neck hum when pulled controls volume of bridge hum.
Cool video! Would it be possible to wire a push/pull pot as a kill switch toggle? For context, I only use my bridge pickup, and have my neck pickup and tone pot removed. I would like the volume knob to be a push/pull pot that enables sound when it is pushed in, and cuts the signal when pulled up. Cheers!
? Phil thank you and I have a question please, I would like to use the CTS pot as my tone control so where would I connect the capacitor? And which one (if any) of the 3 stand off lugs get grounded ?
What if you have two ground wires and a resistor? I'm wiring up a coil split on my Squier Telecaster, the bridge pickup is Seymour Duncan rails with a 3way switch, 1 tone, 1 volume pot
Hi Can you actually stick new solderless white plug connector on those barren wires from the pickup so you don't have to solder? How do you make those wire stay in that white male plug connector!
Oh my gosh Phil, you are literally are an answer to my prayers. I just finished a kit build and I ordered some guitar fetish pickups and their diagram is absolutely wrong according to your tutorial. Any chance you could confirm? They have a wiring diagram section on their website, I have 2 tones, 2 volumes, LP configuration with standard coil tap. Strange thing though the bridge is splitting just fine without grounding 1&3 (just 1 is grounded) but I needed to ground both 1&3 to get the neck to split. So confused, but so grateful for this very simple to understand tutorial to fix my issue
Where does the other end of the ground wire connect to? I have a PRS SE and just installed a Duncan Distortion, but I'm not hearing the split when I pull the tone pot. It seems like they have their black ground wire on the middle post, which doesn't seem right, but it had been working with the old pickup. Any idea?
HI there, can you explain how to fix a pot that also doubles as an on/off switch. I took one apart in a small amplifier, to clean it, and now the knob no longer 'clicks' to turn it on an off.
Bro what happened? You usually make didactic how to videos , maybe it is me , however I cannot denied that this video did not help me to understand , perhaps if I see it few more times it will be clear for me , thank you anyways , you rock !!!!
I hear that if you Put a resister on the hot wire, from the push pull pot, about 7k you get a partial split. This partial split gives about 20% power in the second coil, meaning your split humbucker isn't as quiet as a normal one. This is the Franklin method
Hello sir can you show how to do a clean wiring on the guitar that using/need a lot of power?.. I mean I connected the hot from the input jack into the volume pot terminal together with my killswitch and also the treble bleed also so the lug was so fit that makes me difficult to solder them.. thank you in advance
A couple of questions, 1) So you ignore the lugs on the “round” part of the pot entirely??? 2) What do you do if you have a second pot in a Les Paul or Explorer type installation? Do you wire both pickups to the single pot or do you do one to each and install two coil split pots?
I did exactly everything you showed here . Then when it came to to play the volume knobs don’t work . Like it’s always on and I can’t seem to roll the volume off . Any idea why ? I soldered the 3 terminal to the body to make it a volume but it didn’t work what am I doing wrong here?
Very useful tip and very well explained as always. I did this wiring with a mini switch and it's working fine. I can hear the change in tone and volume. However, I noticed that in split position the inactive/grounded coils produce a sound when tapped with a metal stick like a screwdriver or so. Is that a normal behavior? Or should I check my wiring?
Please help me I have a Yamaha pasifica 112v but my wires are black and white 2 of 1 and one of the other I just don’t if it goes white black white or another combination can you tell me 🤷🏻♂️👊🏻
Thank you for the video! Quick question for you: I’m doing a single humbucker instead of 2, but does it really not matter what side you solder the white and red wires to? Since I’m only doing 1 pickup I’ve seen some diagrams say to do it on the right, and some say on the left. But I guess it doesn’t matter? Is that right! Thanks !
How do I know if I need a 500k or 250k? Long or short shaft? (It's a Harley Benton Hot Rod with a humbucker strat pickup in the bridge but they cheaped out on the coil split and sent me one without it.)
Did you figure it out? I believe it would be you'd be sending the two wires from your neck, like he's showing, to one of the "C" terminal's . The two wires you would use for coil splitting are going to be soldered together & not to anything else.
Phil - Would this make a difference if you did this with the tone pot or the volume pot? I’m not certain which one to replace sine I seen it done both ways. I have a push pull on my tone knob on my Suhr and push pull on my volume on my Charvel.
I got a newbie question, after I did this mod I found out both north coils were split, which is not the middle position tone i was going for. I wanted both outer coils. How do i go about doing it? I did it on the volume put with alligator wires and I just connected the one I wanted to change, to the hot of the volume. I just don't understand how to do the same on the tone pot.
Question for all. Is it typical to coil split on the volume pots or the tone pots on a LP style guitar? Asking because I really don't know. Just ordered a set of 4 conductor "hot" Seymour Duncan mini humbuckers 'under a P90' for my '59 re-issue Epiphone Gold Top". Also plan on adding a 'String Butler', Hipshot classic upgrade tuners and am super curious if the 8.5 mm Hipshot tuners will fit the factory headstock holes. The guitar is a late 90's/early 2000's Korean made Epiphone '59 Gold Top' with soap bar P90's. Any help and input would be appreciated.
Can you do this same video where you attach the pickups/output jack and everything like you would to into the guitar? I am a noob in terms of humbucker wiring and there is literally no video of someone actually doing the wiring, all videos are just explaining. Also where does the black ground wire you put through the top go on the other end? Where does the green/bare wire go, where does the black wire from the pickup go
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Thank you to everyone who supports this channel. If you like this video I have lots more coming. If you have requests for videos like this let me know in the comments
Yes. Video idea Where do we look for guitars to practice on. Fix them up and resale. Not even profit but practice. Seems they always require more than the value can handle???
Hey Phil! How about making or repairing instrument cables. Mainly TS, TRS, and XLR? Seems like something that could be a useful skill since cables are so expensive and it seems fairly simple. Of course, not simple enough to not make a video about 😂
Actually, I'd really like to see how to wax my covered humbuckers for my Firefly 338! (I know) not sure if it would be worth it but I'd like to try it but.... Great channel btw! Lol
Thanks, Phil, For All That You Do !
Phil, can you do one with PPAT-520 pots? I can’t find anything online on how to wire these.
Tomorrow my switch comes. I got the one you said you like best. I have an electronics background. (My father was a robot)... that's a joke.... so this looks incredibly easy. The Pups are TV Jones PowerTrons.... I will let you know if they sound good coil split or not. ....2 days later, yes! Excellent sound! These pups are hotter other TV Jones and I used the 500k pot. They sound noticeably closer to the Fender tone I am after. If you can afford a Fender then thats the best option but if $10 is all you can muster then this is a viable option.
Wow what a clear and concise short video diagram! Thanks Phill! (Ill still manage to Fugg this up)
Finally a video explaining that in detail and not just shoving a phone in a guitar cavity expecting me to know. Thank you
Thank you for doing the CTS one, I couldn't figure out which lug was which!
Thanks For this Informative Video Phil!
Awesome, straightforward and easy to understand video. LOVE it!!
Your video was awsome, took me 5 minutes ,superb. Thank you Phil 😊 🙏
I absolutely SUCK at soldering. Thanks to your vid, I will try again. 🤘🏾
I do too but I ordered cool solder training g kits so I can learn very clean methods before h mod mo guitar
Thanks so much for this video. I got a used guitar and one of the wires came loose probably during shipping. The guy who soldered it might be the only man on Earth whose skillz with a soldering iron are worse than mine. Every lug had solder on it (I'm guess he installed via trial and error) so I had no idea which one the wire fell off of. Thanks again my guitar works but I'm probably going to take it to a pro and have this mess sorted out.
Thanks for the great video! Is it possible to use the same kind of push-pull pot to do series/parallel switching? I would love to see a video on that..😃
Oh the annoyances of these damn things. BUT.....they work....Cut my teeth on these buggers when I stuck a DiMarzio FRED in a bridge of a Michael Kelly T-type guitar. Wired for tapping rather than splitting. Wonderful Video, Phil! And excellent work on your showcase video of all your guitars!
I'm commenting and watching this (actually just playing it before I go get the dogs) just to help out a bit. :)
Thanks best tutorial of this process on RUclips.
Thanks Phil, videos like this are super helpful, cant get enough of this type of content. Thank you for all your effort
I'm just getting ready to attempt this! Great timing Phil!
Thank you Phil. Love the videos.
May i suggest a complete serious on how you would approach building a guitar from start to finish over the next few months , thank you very much,
i know there are alot of tips on your channel spread throughout but if its a series it can be easier to find and really easy to learn with steps
Call me dense but I would not be confident in wiring up a switch after watching that Phil. Slow down, take your time. If I want to do that job, then I have the patience to watch a longer, clearer video.
Try it and learn.. its great to experiment and learn
This says more about you. You’re probably better off taking it to someone who knows what they’re doing, I’m a computer engineering student and this was a really easy guide to follow along. Wired my Jaguar with no problem
@@userdeleted4723i think that was precisely his point. A slightly longer video could help those who are not computer engineer students.
This as a general feedback.
But this is also a free video, so one should see it that way and be grateful that someone found the time to put it together and share it for free.
I’m an idiot and this video couldn’t have been more simpler 🤣
Seems really straightforward.
Well done. That was so simple.
Philip, You are the best
I like the tech videos Phil !
Wiring is my weakest skill. For some reason I've struggled to understand parts of it my whole life. I've wired 100's of guitars, built pups, done repairs for years. As long as I have a diagram I'm ok. I'm really glad these will be here for a reference!! Thanks much Phil!! 8) JMHO --gary
Great information, and simple enough explaning what to do. My only problem is that us older folks have hearing issues (among other things) and for me you talked really fast. It required me stopping and backing up a good bit so it ended up being a lot longer than it was. That's all. We aren't all young ladies and men 😉. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! It is very much appreciated. 😁😎.
am i using the ground cable on the pickup to ground out those top two lugs or a separate black wire?
Thank you Phil! You just got me out of a jam. Please keep making great videos. 👍
appreciate this.... I am stumped, trying to wire a double P bass I made, but having little luck in finding wiring diagrams!
Great Job Man.🎸🎶🎸
Thank you for posting this tutorial!
Your videos are always top notch thanks so much phil for everything you do!
Behringer pedals?
Always good content, always informative. Great job.
Gran video hermano, ni a los que lo explican en español les entendí tanto como a tí
Love these videos. So helpful !
Is there a way two have 1 push pull pot for 2 humbuckers with independent volume for each?
I mean when pushed controls volume of neck hum when pulled controls volume of bridge hum.
do you still have to use a compacitor with these if the push push pot is tone type a or do these allow you to not have to have a compacitor
Cool video! Would it be possible to wire a push/pull pot as a kill switch toggle?
For context, I only use my bridge pickup, and have my neck pickup and tone pot removed. I would like the volume knob to be a push/pull pot that enables sound when it is pushed in, and cuts the signal when pulled up.
Cheers!
Which wires go from the MOJO to volume and which go to a single tone? .Thanks
? Phil thank you and I have a question please, I would like to use the CTS pot as my tone control so where would I connect the capacitor? And which one (if any) of the 3 stand off lugs get grounded ?
Do coil split pots affect the over all tone of the pick-ups?
How do I do this so I can use the tone pot to change the neck pickup of a les Paul to cool split
Thanks Phil. I think I will try that with a couple of my guitars. I love these videos, very helpful.
What do you do with the other 3 pickup wires? Im running 1 humbucker in the bridge with no switch.
What if you have two ground wires and a resistor? I'm wiring up a coil split on my Squier Telecaster, the bridge pickup is Seymour Duncan rails with a 3way switch, 1 tone, 1 volume pot
How different is the wiring for a push push switch on a single coil so that you have all three pick ups at once?
What about the tone knob and selector
Cool vidoe Phil, could you do another one for a Push/Push circuit?
Hi Can you actually stick new solderless white plug connector on those barren wires from the pickup so you don't have to solder? How do you make those wire stay in that white male plug connector!
Oh my gosh Phil, you are literally are an answer to my prayers. I just finished a kit build and I ordered some guitar fetish pickups and their diagram is absolutely wrong according to your tutorial. Any chance you could confirm? They have a wiring diagram section on their website, I have 2 tones, 2 volumes, LP configuration with standard coil tap. Strange thing though the bridge is splitting just fine without grounding 1&3 (just 1 is grounded) but I needed to ground both 1&3 to get the neck to split. So confused, but so grateful for this very simple to understand tutorial to fix my issue
Where does the other end of the ground wire connect to? I have a PRS SE and just installed a Duncan Distortion, but I'm not hearing the split when I pull the tone pot. It seems like they have their black ground wire on the middle post, which doesn't seem right, but it had been working with the old pickup. Any idea?
Thank you series? Great tutorial. M Would you know what push/pull pots will fit an Ibanez S serires?
Noob question- I'm assuming this is done on the tone pot?
Is it the same with Push/Push? 😇
Thank you for simplifying this process! I just got a mojo switch too and wasn't sure if I was going to have to pay someone to wire it.
Not all heroes wear capes. Thanks Phil!
What about series/parallel on push pull together with coil split on second push pull? 🙏🙏🙏
HI there, can you explain how to fix a pot that also doubles as an on/off switch. I took one apart in a small amplifier, to clean it, and now the knob no longer 'clicks' to turn it on an off.
Watching in the morning, first thing.
Would they work for pots with hss wiring for volume and tone and three mini toggle switches?
How to wire the capacitors if im using the cts push pull on my tone knobs
My issue is I have a guitar I'm modding with 3 humbuckers and I want to coil split all of 3. Would I sodder it the same way but with 3 wires to hot?
My guitar's push/pull is supposedly wired as a coil split stock....but it has a capacitor on it. What is that for?
It it also possible to change a coil split push pull into a out of phase switch?
Yes I need this video thanks Phil 👍
Bro what happened? You usually make didactic how to videos , maybe it is me , however I cannot denied that this video did not help me to understand , perhaps if I see it few more times it will be clear for me , thank you anyways , you rock !!!!
I hear that if you Put a resister on the hot wire, from the push pull pot, about 7k you get a partial split. This partial split gives about 20% power in the second coil, meaning your split humbucker isn't as quiet as a normal one. This is the Franklin method
How would you do a stacked dual with push pull, using it for tone/volume/split?
How do you wire two guitar pickups into ONE push/pull pot? Specifically. Single Coil Neck and a Bridge Humbucker into on PUSH/PULL pot.
Would you say that construction-wise the two different PP's are equal in quality and tone?
I cant seem to find anywhere what the wire color coding on a set of PRS 85/15 TCI pickups is.
Thanks bro just what I needed 🙂
Hello sir can you show how to do a clean wiring on the guitar that using/need a lot of power?.. I mean I connected the hot from the input jack into the volume pot terminal together with my killswitch and also the treble bleed also so the lug was so fit that makes me difficult to solder them.. thank you in advance
Can you do it to your Hollowbody 2 SE? I have one and am interested in doing this but I don't know if I can fish it out
MAN!!! Thanks I loved that
Where to connect green and white?
A couple of questions, 1) So you ignore the lugs on the “round” part of the pot entirely??? 2) What do you do if you have a second pot in a Les Paul or Explorer type installation? Do you wire both pickups to the single pot or do you do one to each and install two coil split pots?
How do I remove the pot. I unscrewed screw but seems stuck. I don’t want to break it
I did exactly everything you showed here . Then when it came to to play the volume knobs don’t work . Like it’s always on and I can’t seem to roll the volume off . Any idea why ? I soldered the 3 terminal to the body to make it a volume but it didn’t work what am I doing wrong here?
Is this wiring when you use the vol or the tone pot for coil splitting?
The split part he's explaining would be for either/or.
Very useful tip and very well explained as always.
I did this wiring with a mini switch and it's working fine. I can hear the change in tone and volume.
However, I noticed that in split position the inactive/grounded coils produce a sound when tapped with a metal stick like a screwdriver or so.
Is that a normal behavior? Or should I check my wiring?
Please help me I have a Yamaha pasifica 112v but my wires are black and white 2 of 1 and one of the other I just don’t if it goes white black white or another combination can you tell me 🤷🏻♂️👊🏻
Thank you for the video!
Quick question for you: I’m doing a single humbucker instead of 2, but does it really not matter what side you solder the white and red wires to? Since I’m only doing 1 pickup I’ve seen some diagrams say to do it on the right, and some say on the left. But I guess it doesn’t matter? Is that right! Thanks !
I’ve watched many of your vids. You’re one of the best content creators on RUclips. Thanks for videos like this one.
You’re a great teacher.
Okay, but what the hell do you do with the green and shield wired?
I was watching this video 3 times wondering what we do with the other wire? And then it hit me that it goes to the switch for pickup selecting...
How do I know if I need a 500k or 250k? Long or short shaft? (It's a Harley Benton Hot Rod with a humbucker strat pickup in the bridge but they cheaped out on the coil split and sent me one without it.)
how would you wire a push pull knob if you only want the neck humbucker split?
Did you figure it out? I believe it would be you'd be sending the two wires from your neck, like he's showing, to one of the "C" terminal's . The two wires you would use for coil splitting are going to be soldered together & not to anything else.
I have a question is it possible to put a Ibanez style neck on a squier stagemaster guitar they are both 24 fret and same scale length
Is it possible to wire 2 humbuckers to a single push pull pot so it works to both humbuckers?
Yes, that is not a problem at all
@@PhillipMcKnight is it like the video except wire to all 4 bottom posts?
Phil - Would this make a difference if you did this with the tone pot or the volume pot? I’m not certain which one to replace sine I seen it done both ways. I have a push pull on my tone knob on my Suhr and push pull on my volume on my Charvel.
The only thing that would change is the wiring at the 3-lug terminals at the bottom.
I got a newbie question, after I did this mod I found out both north coils were split, which is not the middle position tone i was going for. I wanted both outer coils. How do i go about doing it? I did it on the volume put with alligator wires and I just connected the one I wanted to change, to the hot of the volume. I just don't understand how to do the same on the tone pot.
Question for all. Is it typical to coil split on the volume pots or the tone pots on a LP style guitar? Asking because I really don't know. Just ordered a set of 4 conductor "hot" Seymour Duncan mini humbuckers 'under a P90' for my '59 re-issue Epiphone Gold Top". Also plan on adding a 'String Butler', Hipshot classic upgrade tuners and am super curious if the 8.5 mm Hipshot tuners will fit the factory headstock holes. The guitar is a late 90's/early 2000's Korean made Epiphone '59 Gold Top' with soap bar P90's. Any help and input would be appreciated.
Awesome Phil, good stuff!
Thanks Phil
Cheers! Good looking guy! Good informations. Thank you!
Can you do this same video where you attach the pickups/output jack and everything like you would to into the guitar? I am a noob in terms of humbucker wiring and there is literally no video of someone actually doing the wiring, all videos are just explaining. Also where does the black ground wire you put through the top go on the other end? Where does the green/bare wire go, where does the black wire from the pickup go
Been trying to do this for weeks
Very helpful, thanks
This is that CONTENT
You make it so easy
Thank you very much!!!