Best explanation out there. I'm sharing with friends. Thank you Johnny! I would love to see more of this type of vid. Please continue this series. I suggest switches to select polarity for pickups and using switches to have both series and parallel as options for humbuckers.
Thanks for such simplification and very clear and friendly explanation. I would suggest that when you make drawing of two wire crossing each other without actually being connected, please make a "half cirle" of one of the wire, so it serms like the wire is jumping on top of the other. It is commonly done that way. You can see in the electronic diagram. Once again thanks a lot and Cheers from Indonesia.
This is fantastic! Thank you so much! More videos please! Coil splits and 5 way switches, and maybe the circuits of specific models such as Jaguars, Strats, and Teles!
This is super helpful. What I don't understand is that when you have two tone pots, I see some people do it by connection one pick up to the middle lug of the tone pot, and another pickup connected to the ground lug of another tone pot, and the ground of the first pot goes to the middle lug of the second pot. I can't picture the flow of signal in myself because what you have demonstrated here makes 100% sense to me, but the 2 tone pot situation doesn't 🤣
Thanks buddy. My 7 string had capacitor place messed up. Just a few additions to this guise: Ground bridge and switch to the volume as other components: pickups/tone
Thanks for the vid, it does put the HH situation in perspective, but my 5c ... as I am just in the process of learning guitar wiring I would like a bit more info, especially why something needs to be connected, not just how ... for example why is connector nr1 on the tone pot not connected to anything, could it be, when does it need to be? Or would this differ in a HS setting? Or how do you put a hum/single/parallel switch on the humbucker? Or how the tone bypass switch functions, what does each lever position do in regard to the 6 connection points to which you solder wires? Basically how to understand signal flow trough each component, so that we could easier make custom wirings for finding the right sound. It would be nice to see a video like that ... or did I just not look hard enough and there is one already? Cheers
Hi I was looking for 2 humbuckers 1 volume 1 tone 5 way switch wiring and your video poped up, but it is a 3 way switch connection. The switch looks like a 5 way lever blade, so could you show us how to do a 2 humbucker 1 vol 1 tone so we can get pos 1- neck series, pos 2- only 1 coil neck, pos 3- 1 coil neck 1 coil bridge, pos 4- only 1 coil bridge, and pos 5- bridge series. That would be awsome, thanks
Does it matter if the capacitor and the output are switched? All the diagrams I've seen show the cap on lug 2 and output on lug 3. You have them reversed. Does it make a difference???
Bruh, you are my saviour, I have been looking on Information about this stuff, I am going to watch all of your videos I am an inspiring luthier and I want to build my own pickups aswell
I have a question. I have an Ibanez with 2 Humbuckers and i want to rotate the neck pickup because i want the White coil to be closest to the neck because I think it looks better. The thing is that when I choose position 4 on the 5 way switch now the outer coil of the neck pickup is active together with the bridge pickup. I still want the inner coils to be the active ones in position 4. I found a forum that said: "The correct wiring should be replacing the North START with South END and North END with South START." So that will change which coil that will be active? but they will be out of phase so i need to change the phase of the bridge pickup?
No one seems to be able to help me with my project. I would like a humbucker in the bridge and a single col in the neck. Two volumes and one tone. Is the tone 250K or 500K? I can't find and wiring diagrams at all.
Hey @Fortiori thanks for the great video but I do have one question. Why is the "input" for a tone pot lug 2 but for a volume pot it's lug 1? Thanks in advance
0:49 New sub. I'm trying to restore a vintage original MIJ guitar: phase and coil toggles, two HB w 3 way. Oh and it has at present two EMGs and two push-pull vol pots. Probably from when they installed the EMGs.
bro my jackson dinky, input like the red wire like disconnected from the actual plug for guitar cables (you plug it in), and only the white wire is connected. How do i connect the red wire with the actual plug?
Idk if anyone can help but, I want a specific wiring and just need some guidance. Looking for the following setup: Position 1: Bridge Position 2: Middle Position 3: Middle and Neck Position 4: All 3 Pickups on Position 5: Neck I have a super switch and I almost got it working but, the only thing I can’t get right is position 1. For some reason position one is Bridge & Middle in parallel…
in a circuit with only a volume pot, no tone pot, please explain why lug 3 is connected to the pot casing and why that casing is grounded. Without this connection you still have a completed loop going through the switch and pickups to ground. I know it works but it makes no sense to me. For the same reason I don't understand why the tone pot isn't connected in series after the pickups and then to ground. I know all guitars are wired the way you describe but it looks like the tone pot is taken out of the loop before it gets to the pickups. Thanks in advance. I've not seen any RUclipss that explain why everything is grounded and the actual signal path.
Because the tone pot is used to bleed off the high frequencies, rather than to pass the entire signal. imagine a small pipe with a filter on it coming off of a main water pipe. the main pipe is still pumping to the output, but the side pipe is allowing some of the water with the smallest particles (the high frequencies in this analogy) to leak out and not make it to the final output.
it´s because of the capacitor on the tone control. the whole signal actually wants to go through it, but the capacitor blocks low frequencies, so those can´t go further to ground and instead to go the output. but the capacitor lets through hi frequencies, which then go further to ground.
with my videos here, i recommend you watch the whole series. it´s just a few episodes, but each one builds on the one before. so taking one episode out of context might not be very helpful. i definitely could´ve done that better, tbh.
@@ForTiorIJohnny no man you've done a great job with this series I have watched it all and it certainly is more clear to me, I was more kinda just saying that I'm amazed anybody figured all this stuff out, great job though man really well explained
Wiring is color coded, do the same video using the proper colors instead of just black and my dog could probably do it. Great information video. Thanks
I like how you show both the theoretical and practical illustrations, very easy to grasp the whole thing 👌
Best explanation out there. I'm sharing with friends. Thank you Johnny! I would love to see more of this type of vid. Please continue this series. I suggest switches to select polarity for pickups and using switches to have both series and parallel as options for humbuckers.
OMG everything is so clear now, you rock man lml
This was a great series of videos. The way you build up the ideas made it very easy to follow. Thank you!
Thank you very much! Now everyting is clear to me.
These were great! Pleeeease do more, you made it so insanely digestible!
Thanks for such simplification and very clear and friendly explanation. I would suggest that when you make drawing of two wire crossing each other without actually being connected, please make a "half cirle" of one of the wire, so it serms like the wire is jumping on top of the other. It is commonly done that way. You can see in the electronic diagram. Once again thanks a lot and Cheers from Indonesia.
Wow, I've watched at least 20 videos on wiring and after this one I won't have to watch anymore, thanks, bro.
This is fantastic!
Thank you so much!
More videos please! Coil splits and 5 way switches, and maybe the circuits of specific models such as Jaguars, Strats, and Teles!
Nice!! Super handy resource and well explained. Thanks 🙏
This video finally made it tick for me! Thanks man!
The visuals helped me so much THANK YOU!!!
This is super helpful. What I don't understand is that when you have two tone pots, I see some people do it by connection one pick up to the middle lug of the tone pot, and another pickup connected to the ground lug of another tone pot, and the ground of the first pot goes to the middle lug of the second pot. I can't picture the flow of signal in myself because what you have demonstrated here makes 100% sense to me, but the 2 tone pot situation doesn't 🤣
This video saved my life! THANK YOU!!!
Now I know just HOW volume and tone pots work from your other videos, it is actually.... not that difficult! Thanks alot Johnny!
Thanks buddy. My 7 string had capacitor place messed up.
Just a few additions to this guise: Ground bridge and switch to the volume as other components: pickups/tone
Best video I've ever seen explaining this. Thanks a lot!!!
Thanks for this my friend
Thanks for this, helped me greatly!
Thanks for the vid, it does put the HH situation in perspective, but my 5c ... as I am just in the process of learning guitar wiring I would like a bit more info, especially why something needs to be connected, not just how ... for example why is connector nr1 on the tone pot not connected to anything, could it be, when does it need to be? Or would this differ in a HS setting? Or how do you put a hum/single/parallel switch on the humbucker? Or how the tone bypass switch functions, what does each lever position do in regard to the 6 connection points to which you solder wires? Basically how to understand signal flow trough each component, so that we could easier make custom wirings for finding the right sound. It would be nice to see a video like that ... or did I just not look hard enough and there is one already? Cheers
This was awesome thanks bruz!!
Hi I was looking for 2 humbuckers 1 volume 1 tone 5 way switch wiring and your video poped up, but it is a 3 way switch connection.
The switch looks like a 5 way lever blade, so could you show us how to do a 2 humbucker 1 vol 1 tone so we can get pos 1- neck series, pos 2- only 1 coil neck, pos 3- 1 coil neck 1 coil bridge, pos 4- only 1 coil bridge, and pos 5- bridge series. That would be awsome, thanks
Does it matter if the capacitor and the output are switched? All the diagrams I've seen show the cap on lug 2 and output on lug 3. You have them reversed. Does it make a difference???
Thank you man! Great playlist!
Now it's much clearer for me.
But no more wiring videos? :(
Hi. I am trying to wire 2 humbuckers in series with a 3 way switch and 2 volume 1 tone, I just want to see where the wires go. Please.
Bruh, you are my saviour, I have been looking on Information about this stuff, I am going to watch all of your videos
I am an inspiring luthier and I want to build my own pickups aswell
You sound like Schwarzenegger!
He really does 😂 "ill be back" to watch his content
Schwarze what now
Terminator does guitars!!!!!
I have a question. I have an Ibanez with 2 Humbuckers and i want to rotate the neck pickup because i want the White coil to be closest to the neck because I think it looks better. The thing is that when I choose position 4 on the 5 way switch now the outer coil of the neck pickup is active together with the bridge pickup. I still want the inner coils to be the active ones in position 4. I found a forum that said: "The correct wiring should be replacing the North START with South END and North END with South START." So that will change which coil that will be active? but they will be out of phase so i need to change the phase of the bridge pickup?
No one seems to be able to help me with my project. I would like a humbucker in the bridge and a single col in the neck. Two volumes and one tone. Is the tone 250K or 500K? I can't find and wiring diagrams at all.
what do you mean by bridge the a1 a2 b2 and b3 connections bridge them with what ?
If I put a single coil in the neck how different would it be?
So I have a BC Rich Warlock Pro platinum it has two humbuckers and two volume pots as well as a three way and tone pot how do I do that 😭
Nice video, thank you
Hey @Fortiori thanks for the great video but I do have one question. Why is the "input" for a tone pot lug 2 but for a volume pot it's lug 1? Thanks in advance
0:49 New sub. I'm trying to restore a vintage original MIJ guitar: phase and coil toggles, two HB w 3 way. Oh and it has at present two EMGs and two push-pull vol pots. Probably from when they installed the EMGs.
Can you do a video w/ HSH configuration?
bro my jackson dinky, input like the red wire like disconnected from the actual plug for guitar cables (you plug it in), and only the white wire is connected. How do i connect the red wire with the actual plug?
Idk if anyone can help but, I want a specific wiring and just need some guidance.
Looking for the following setup:
Position 1: Bridge
Position 2: Middle
Position 3: Middle and Neck
Position 4: All 3 Pickups on
Position 5: Neck
I have a super switch and I almost got it working but, the only thing I can’t get right is position 1. For some reason position one is Bridge & Middle in parallel…
Thank you
Doesn't the selector switch need to be grounded also?
in a circuit with only a volume pot, no tone pot, please explain why lug 3 is connected to the pot casing and why that casing is grounded. Without this connection you still have a completed loop going through the switch and pickups to ground. I know it works but it makes no sense to me. For the same reason I don't understand why the tone pot isn't connected in series after the pickups and then to ground. I know all guitars are wired the way you describe but it looks like the tone pot is taken out of the loop before it gets to the pickups. Thanks in advance. I've not seen any RUclipss that explain why everything is grounded and the actual signal path.
Because the tone pot is used to bleed off the high frequencies, rather than to pass the entire signal. imagine a small pipe with a filter on it coming off of a main water pipe. the main pipe is still pumping to the output, but the side pipe is allowing some of the water with the smallest particles (the high frequencies in this analogy) to leak out and not make it to the final output.
Where to connect single coil in hah configuration?
Excellent
Great video
Thank you!!!
how to wire two pickups only volume no tone and one switch to select neck and bridge pickup
Thanks mate i understand 👍
thanks, I got a great radio, I don’t even need to play
3:02 why? I know that's how it is but I need to know why is that way, why it works...
this is part of a video series. if you watch the other ones it makes more sense.
what about with an L style 3 way switch
I need to wire 2 pickups with two wire lead’s,to 1 vol, 1 tone and three way toggle switch
excellent
7:30 how do high frequencies know they gotta go to the tone pot? Sorry im a super noob here haha
it´s because of the capacitor on the tone control. the whole signal actually wants to go through it, but the capacitor blocks low frequencies, so those can´t go further to ground and instead to go the output. but the capacitor lets through hi frequencies, which then go further to ground.
One question about this.... What about the ground to the bridge?
I know everyone says it's easy but to me this might aswell be magic, how anyone ever figured this stuff out is just beyond me, makes me feel so stupid
with my videos here, i recommend you watch the whole series. it´s just a few episodes, but each one builds on the one before. so taking one episode out of context might not be very helpful. i definitely could´ve done that better, tbh.
@@ForTiorIJohnny no man you've done a great job with this series I have watched it all and it certainly is more clear to me, I was more kinda just saying that I'm amazed anybody figured all this stuff out, great job though man really well explained
What if it's SSS
oh man if you could do this with a push pull for coil splitting...
Yes, it is not hard
As long as cables and soldering has not been made messy before
Wiring is color coded, do the same video using the proper colors instead of just black and my dog could probably do it. Great information video. Thanks
4:40 don't understand !!? so mess
what a wasted opportunity to use color codes...
true. then again the color codes are different for most brands. this is more generalized so it doesn´t accidantally confuse people.
Thank you I learned nothing