Dylan. Thank you for your research and work then sharing your knowledge with the world. I'm a old hand at guitar having assembled my 1st srat in 1982 with a Duncan Custom and 2 Dimarzio super distortion strat pickups. Now I'vr learned more from you and uour channel and opened up to continue learning. Guitar is a deep subject I have such a passion for and can tell you do as well. Bravo Eric D. Texas
Thanks, Dylan! All of your videos are wickedly awesome. I have a question regarding this video, however. How do you configure the wiring to determine which coil is turned off (north or south coil)? Where does each start wire connect to differentiate north from south? Probably a dumb question, but I have a feeling that I am not alone in asking. Would you consider doing a video explaining the diagram for such?
Dylan I have a question. Specifically how to I wire an Dp/Dt On/off/On Mini Toggle Switch to acquire a frontcoil/regularhumbucker/rearcoil effect? Further, how do I wire that to an 3 way selector switch? Any help would be great
Thanks Dylan. Best 5:08 I've spent trying to figure this out. Just a few clarification questions. Which coil do you typically keep active, the screw or slug side? Also, what does "hot" mean in relation to screw/slug? It looks like the screw side is often the furthest out (closest to neck and bridge on an HH or HSH). Any reason for this? Finally, I assume one start goes to the centre volume lug and other goes to ground. Correct? Thanks again.
Hey sorry to bother you with this but did you end up confirming where the start goes? I feel like an idiot but every video I've watched assumes that I know so much more than I do and I'm lost when it comes to those two wires at the moment
@@radfury23g32 It goes back some time but from memory, I bought a little compass-like device that identifies north an south polarity and just made sure I had them on opposites sides. I discovered screw isn't always south. Different manufactures have screw north. By using polarity rather than the physical characteristics of the screw/slug, I've managed to avoid hum or phasing. Hope that helps.
I did a coil split with both my neck and bridge humbuckers. 2 lug on off mini toggle. wired both humbuckers to the SAME lug on the mini switch and the other lug to ground. This dropped the overall resistance on both pickups even when the coil split switch is not on. They were both high output pickups before the split, but this wiring brought them down to like a nice hot PAF tone. 14k originally bridge, now like 10k, then 5k when split (measured with the pickups all wired up in the guitar with a guitar cable/multimeter). I like the sound of it. I don't think this is a common way to do it, but i have more than one guitar, so experiments like this are fun.
not sure how that happened. When the knob is down, the 2 wires are simply connected, same as when it's just humbucker. There should be, almost can't be a drop in OHM. Unless you got the switch too hot, or changed pots with different ohm. Added a capacitor different then before, thinking it was the same. WHen the knob is down those 2 wires signal should not bleed off. Something is wrong. You like the sound, it's still hotter then a burstbucker3, so you might have just got lucky. If It happens to me, and my 8.5k 490T, then it will sound like total mud. If mine drops like yours I'll come back and post, if I don't return, then mine had no drop...... here goes lol
I have a 2007 Firebird VII that is about to get a set of vintage spec FB pickups. It is a three pickup set and I will be using a free-way switch. Are you familiar with this type? If so, how would you wire it up? I have a couple of push-push pots if needed. Each pickup will have 4 wires.
Great info. By any chance have you done a video on wiring a HSH pickup guitar. I need to wire mine and I am having a problem finding a wiring diagram. I am looking for the standard wiring, not auto split. Thanks and well done video. Phil NYC Area
So the start and start wires just don’t go anywhere? How does the sound from the humbucker get to the amp? Seems like a lot of unanswered questions for something that is “all there is to it”.
Hi! Does it have to be on the right side or it can be on left side of lug 2 for the two finish wires. I have tried the install but the pickup sounds the same up or down.
does it have to be on a volume pot, or can i also do it on a tone pot? i have 3 humbuckers that i want to split, and only 2 pots to do it with. ill be using a 5 way switch. i dont want to drill any more holes, so it would be cool if i can use 2 pots (1v,1t) to split the pickups.
Dylan, you do a very good job of explaining things in a way that most of us can understand. Thank you! Question: Do you happen to know the colors of the finish wires on a DiMarzio AT-1? I ordered it but it has not arrived yet, so I can't tell you what colors are there to choose from.
This is the best description I've seen yet on how this works. My question is, how to I incorporate a DPDT switch in a setup where the existing 5 way already does some coil splitting? I have a Charvel DK24 and I would love to be able to have the coil tap toggle that's on the Guthrie Govan signature model (which is what I've described) Any thoughts?
Hey Dylan , just confirming the the push pull pots are the volumes, thats how they are on my Gibson Studio bu Saw another guy saying the push pulls could be on the Tone ?I was hoping to try to get the 50s wiring with the split coils if thats even possible ??
Ok so while ago this channel got me to go ahead and try alumitone pickups (AWSOME and no noise) im gonna put them in another guitar soon n I've seen something about wiring you coil split to a pot. So the tone pot becoming a coil split "fade knob" you know anything about that?
My name is Dylan too and I been really learning from your videos. Guitar is my life and you help me discover more and more . Thanks for all these great videos. I am going to make my own guitar soon and will do coil splitting
Hey Dylan! So I’m working on a guitar with 2 split coil humbuckers, and I currently have them both soldered to a push/pull pot for a coil tap, but I wanna add an on/on switch to use for outing the neck pickup out of phase. How would I go about doing that? Do I just solder more wire from the pot to the switch? Thanks in advance!
So well explained, thank you. Now I can split my new tele bridge mini humbucker with the DPDT combo tone knob and decide if I want single coil when I pull or single when I push. I used to own a moded Tele Deluxe and I think the push pull pots went single coil when I pulled up, keep it simple.you da man.
Hi, I have a Casio PG380 Synth guitar.I had to take it apart for obvious reasons.Now I'm trying to rewire the humbucker to a push pull.The problem is that I only have 3 conductors and a ground.The 3 conductor colors are white ,red and blue.The white and blue measure 1.700.The white and red measure the same./The red and blue together and the white read 1.259.So can I assume that the white is the tap?Thanks for any help that you can give me.
i hope i'm not too late to ask this question it is an older thread but...here goes a variable pot to dial in one side or the other so..at one end of the split sat the bridge side u have it on and as u dial the other side in the bridge gets less as the neck side of the bridge humbucker gets more gain. the idea is to have basically 2 singles and be able to dial in the amount of each one with the middle position on the pot having equal volume ( in effect a parallel humbucker) i hope i'm getting across. not quite the s.duncan approach but similar
I have DiMarzios on my RG. On the bridge pickup cane with two wires from each pickup taped together. Are those the ones I would connect to the coil split?
Hi Dylan. I love your info man thank you. Great to have you passing on education to us all. Do you have a video on the otax/vlx91 pickup switch for ibanez and how the Jems are wired?
Thanks. not sure if you will see this given age of video, but I have the Gibson PPAT-520 push-pull with only 2 lugs, and have 2-humbuckers, 1-vol, 1-tone, was going to use the PPAT-520 for tone and run each humbucker's north+south finish together into lug 1 on the PPAT-520 and lug 2 to ground. I believe that will work? have a 5-way switch as well to incorporate so still working on the options available with that setup :)
(Hope you're still here 6 yrs later) So, if using a mini toggle, the start wires would terminate to their normal position on the volume pot? A diagram of the whole setup would be awesome. (Im wanting to split a HB in the neck position of a Tele. Bridge PU is standard Tele) Thanks for the video!
Thank you so much for this! I'm so glad I found this wiring diagram. It helped me fixed an older Killer guitar that has been wired incorrectly at some point in its history.
I've done this to an hss Schecter, but I'm having a problem: In trying to brighten the humbucker, l wired a capacitor to the humbucker, but only one coil is brightened. How do I fix this? There is also a coil split-push/pull master tone knob and one master volume.
Cool. About the mini toggle switch, there are different kinds (On/Off, On/On, On/Off/On and On/On/On. I want to wire my pickup to have a 3 combination (Inside coil, Humbucker and Outside Coil) to be selected individualy. I have a Snake Hollow Body 1973 that has 4 positions rotary switch that does the same (0=Off, 1-=Inside coil, 2=Outside Coil and 3=Humbucker. I'm trying to figure a way to do the same with mini toggles for another guitar, which I believe should be the On/On/On. So, I would have 2 mini toggles On/On/On to select the coils individualy. Am I thinking right?
hi Dylan, this channel is really interesting for those that really care for their instruments and sound!! i have an issue with a les paul and don´t really know where to go, when i play using the bridge pickup with distortion, when i put my hand over the pickup there´s a noise as if the hot wire was being grounded, i live in the middle of the jungle in mexico and don´t really have many options to figure this out, it would be awesome if you coud point me in the rigth directions
Hi Dylan. Hi to everyone, guitar-electronic enthusiasts. I hope you can clarify the next question: ¿It's possible, in HH configuration, to have only the outer coils (or only the inner coils) of both pickups, in the middle position of the toggle switch? I would like to avoid using tap-coil pots. The idea is Treble pos: bridge full humbucker; middle pos: outer coils; Rhythm pos: neck full humbucker. Thaks for the channel, and thanks for your response. Best regards, Sorry for my limited language😅
Could you help explain. Same situation same DPDT push pull. But the Luthier I went to first took a single piece of wire and soldered both the middle two lugs (#2 in your drawing) together then soldier grounded them to the case of the pot. I don’t recall where the other wires went. But it works fine. He said when you push or pull the pot your just grounding out one side of the pot. Can you please attempt to explain his process. Thanks. Ps. He the best luthier in Southern California for over 40 years.
Does this also work with 3 pickups? And is the rest of the wiring the same as a normal strat? (I am going to build a strat type guitar with single coil sized humbuckers)
They go to the volume pot, depending of which coil you want to select when splitting the humbucker. If you want to select the upper one, that's the wire you want to weld to the volume pot. So you want to weld the start wire of the coil you want to select to the volume pot.
I have a guitar with 4 wires, but I need to revert the split coil. Should I connect each finish and then use one start to hot and the another to ground? Thx in advance
At the moment I'm upgrading my old PRS SE Standard 24 with new pickups and I'm planning on replacing the 3-way blade switch with a 5-way superswitch to allow me to get 1.bridge in series 2. Outside Bridge coil + outside neck coil 3. Bridge + neck both in series humbucking 4. Inside bridge coil + inside neck coil 5. Neck in series humbucking. What I need your help with is in positions 2 & 4 I want the coils to be hum cancelling. Is this possible? Basically I'm wanting to approximate the sound of a tele with both pickups engaged when the 2 outer coils of each humbucker is engaged considering the distance between them and a strat sound with 2 pickups engaged when using the inside coils of each humbuckers is active being closer together having hum cancelling with every position. Complicated. Yes. Doable I'm sure hoping so. Thanks Eric D. Texas
Hi Dylan, I know this is a fairly old video. I've just bought a second hand Player series Tele HH, and for some reason when just the bridge pickup is selected, I'm only getting sound when the coils are split, but not in the normal engagement. Do you have any idea why this may be?
You hopefully figured this out by now but something is probably not connected, most likely the opposite side of the humbucker that is getting split. Or, maybe, the side of the bucker that isn't getting split is shorted, or somehow fried. Only 1 way to find out....get diggin
Cool vid Dylan. I need a little help. building a strat for my son. Im splitting hot rails controlled by 3-way switches (on-off-on) and I want to have a master volum, and a tone control for the split config, and a tone for single config. Here's the concept: My son (12 yoa) wants to a guitar that will come close to a Strat and Les Paul, mimic a Red Special and a Gilmore Strat. I have it set up for three ways on each pickup, phase switches for each while in single config, but Im lost on seting up a tone for the single and humbucker config. Im adding push pulls for tone caps for a little extra. Thanks
forgot to mention that which coil you want turned off will determine where you will solder connection on the switch. for instance if you wanted to single out the negative one instead of the positive one. Most people just split with the positive coil on though. Just a little extra.
If I reversed the tap with the main hot will it just reverse which coil is on when split? I'm trying to get the coil closest to the neck to come on when split.
I wonder if you could do a video, or at least explain how to wire up an on/off/on mini toggle (dpdt) thats used for coil splits AND as a selector switch. Im doing a custom strat that uses mini toggles to switch thru the pickups rather than a normal 5 way blade switch, and what im trying to achieve is to have the lever in one direction act as the coil split, one direction to turn the pickup off, and one direction to have normal humbucker sound. I've worked with 2 way (spdt) switches before on duel humbucker guitars for coil splits, but never on a 3 pickup guitar like a strat. The strat itself is an hsh setup, with the center pickup is a 4 lead, duel rail pickup that can be coil split (the other 2 pickups are 4 lead seymour duncan humbuckers), and im just having trouble figuring out which lugs to use, and which lug to run the wire out to the next switch....oh, and its just a 2 pot system with a simple master volume and master tone. Any light you could shine on this situation would be greatly appriciated :)
black goes to 5 way switch and green with ground and red and white to dpdt switch and if I want a different slug switch red and black wires for seymour duncan
You will be using the coil that has one end connected to the switch and the other one to your standard signal connection. The coil that has one end connected to the switch and the other end to ground will be shorted out and therefore not active. Dylan didn't "connect" any of the two remaining wires in his schematics, so he basically left it up to you. Which one is which depends entirely on how you wire your pickup. If you know the wiring of your pickup and wire it appropriately, you can therefore choose which one of the coils will be active (for example for the purpose of achieving hum canceling in the inbetween positions with coil split). Just bear in mind that depending on how the leads are wired, you might be wiring the pickup out of phase with another one or even with itself (when in the humbucking mode), so it's not completely trivial to figure out if you do a more involved wiring, and might take a bit of trial and error.
Where many guitarists fuck up with coil splitting, is they don't add a resistor in parallel to the pot, when the switch is engaged for splitting. By not switching in a 250k ohm resistor in, they are trying to run a single coil pickup off from a 500k ohm pot, which kills it's tone.
@@luizfmartins4182 if you subscribed and kept up with our videos you would see that we make videos to address almost every question AND we address specific questions from comments AND mention by name the people that ask the question. We do our best... hundreds of questions a week... we do our best.
I need some help. I know electronics, but not guitars. My son wants to build a strat with hot rails split. He wants to have phase switches on the singles, and a separate tone knob for the single and one for humbuckers. I have wired it on paper a hundred times, but I keep finding errors. Want to give it a go?
I accidentally screwed through my body -_- whilst attempting to screw an earth wire in.... YEah so to mask my major idiotic messup, Im going to make that hole bigger and install one of these. Luckily there is enough room in the cavity and between the pup selector switch and the tone knobs to do this.. *Face palm*.. Good job its a cheap project guitar and not something more expensive.
Yeah great, Now WTF do you do with the hot wires? Top coil to #1 and bottom coil to #3? And what about the jumper connections to insure that both coils have circuit flow thru to the pots and then to ground? You need to put a LOT more work into your vids dude.
Hey just prop the book your looking at up and film that..a manual..come back in 5 min..turn off camera..more informative,less stuttering and no gag reflex when finished..dude you couldn't find a friggin guitar or at least a pickup for a visual? Epic fail..and I am subscribing for sure..we're going to have you run all day at the shop.. Guitar Shop that is..oh your artwork is priceless behind you as is your drawn diagram... medication man..be calm...it's ok..lmao
@@DylanTalksTone I was an avionics tech in the Navy so I know with the average or "layperson" circuit drawings and schematics don't cut it. Like you, I kept assuming that people had the base knowledge to work from, which I finally figured out that they don't. Even the simple concept of "ground" was foreign to many. It's easy for some, not so much for others. If you really want to teach and get your point across to these guys you're going to have to actually create a video with step-by-step component wiring with a real guitar, switches and pickups including real-world soldering. Incorporate your circuit drawings as part of your lesson showing how the drawing translates to actual physical components. In other words; start with the lowest common denominator, in this case, your lowest comprehending student! If you don't take that extra step you will continue to frustrate your audience as well as yourself. Until you make that effort, can you really say you're "doing the best you can"? Sure, it might actually take a few videos, but if you're smart and you are monetizing your channel you can insert a few ads so it actually pays for itself! If people are actually learning something they will stay tuned in to glean the knowledge you have to share.
Another fail explanation…. SHOW US THE COMPLETED WIRED PICKUP SHOW US THE WIRES SHOW US THE INTERNAL DIFFS BETWEEN A SINGLE COIL, DOUBLE COIL IN PHASE AND OUT OF PHASE… show us the wiring of a hum bucket…. How about som sound samples of each of the above
@@DylanTalksTone I guess you’re right… two years of formal electronic training… and many years working on pianos and teaching as a college aviation instructor…. I don’t know much…. Which is why I was hoping to see just the comparative diffs between… series in vs out of phase… parallel in vs out of phase… actual volts as the out put of each of the above and compared against volts out compared to a P90…. Therefore optimum caps for moderate tone trimming…. yes… I need to learn some….. I’m guessing that you have none of the above info…nor might you have any concept of an LRC tank
I do. Just not in this video. We have 1500 videos. I mean… since you shared your flex, it appears you already know these things and just wanted to flex… that’s not my jam. I’m not impressed by what you know… it’s the gratitude you need to learn.
@@DylanTalksTone wow that's nothing to do with the channel the video or sound quality for that matter... but hey what ever makes you feel like your in middle school again. Hope your channel improves and so your actitud good luck sir.
@@jjcarter6539 lol... i just think meaningless comments are funny... why people take the time to criticize something g that doesn't really matter is beyond me...
@@DylanTalksTone maybe I was harsh I get it and I'm sorry if I made you feel bad... But saying that sound quality or your video don't matter ... Idk men ... Plus you are reply quiet often too.
@@jjcarter6539 lol ... youtube comments don't make me feel bad. I also don't regret any videos I've ever made even if the something wasn't right... 600 videos and I'm always trying things. Of one misses every now and then, I just learn and move on...
I must've watched this 70 times, and i still cant get it figured out. You say its easy. Everythings easy when you know how to do it. But im sorry, this video just falls short of explaining things for me. This is like saying "Lasagna is easy. Its just noodles and meat".
I'm assuming this video is for people who understand how a regular humbucker is wired (fair enough, he shouldve mentioned it). If you've installed pickups before, you'll know how switches and pots work. This video explains what to do with those remaining two wires, that I never knew what to do with. If you ground them - coils are split. If you don't - you get humbuckers. I may be in the minority here, but this video was exactly what I needed.
Dylan. Thank you for your research and work then sharing your knowledge with the world. I'm a old hand at guitar having assembled my 1st srat in 1982 with a Duncan Custom and 2 Dimarzio super distortion strat pickups. Now I'vr learned more from you and uour channel and opened up to continue learning. Guitar is a deep subject I have such a passion for and can tell you do as well.
Bravo
Eric D.
Texas
Thanks, Dylan! All of your videos are wickedly awesome. I have a question regarding this video, however. How do you configure the wiring to determine which coil is turned off (north or south coil)? Where does each start wire connect to differentiate north from south? Probably a dumb question, but I have a feeling that I am not alone in asking. Would you consider doing a video explaining the diagram for such?
Hey Dylan, Very nice video. Thanks for sharing. Where did you say the "start" wires go to?? Thanks.
Dylan I have a question. Specifically how to I wire an Dp/Dt On/off/On Mini Toggle Switch to acquire a frontcoil/regularhumbucker/rearcoil effect? Further, how do I wire that to an 3 way selector switch? Any help would be great
Can you do a video on 3 wire humbuckers? How they can possibly be wired for Parallel? Why they can’t be split?
Thanks Dylan. Best 5:08 I've spent trying to figure this out. Just a few clarification questions. Which coil do you typically keep active, the screw or slug side? Also, what does "hot" mean in relation to screw/slug? It looks like the screw side is often the furthest out (closest to neck and bridge on an HH or HSH). Any reason for this? Finally, I assume one start goes to the centre volume lug and other goes to ground. Correct? Thanks again.
Hey sorry to bother you with this but did you end up confirming where the start goes? I feel like an idiot but every video I've watched assumes that I know so much more than I do and I'm lost when it comes to those two wires at the moment
@@radfury23g32 It goes back some time but from memory, I bought a little compass-like device that identifies north an south polarity and just made sure I had them on opposites sides. I discovered screw isn't always south. Different manufactures have screw north. By using polarity rather than the physical characteristics of the screw/slug, I've managed to avoid hum or phasing. Hope that helps.
I did a coil split with both my neck and bridge humbuckers. 2 lug on off mini toggle. wired both humbuckers to the SAME lug on the mini switch and the other lug to ground. This dropped the overall resistance on both pickups even when the coil split switch is not on. They were both high output pickups before the split, but this wiring brought them down to like a nice hot PAF tone. 14k originally bridge, now like 10k, then 5k when split (measured with the pickups all wired up in the guitar with a guitar cable/multimeter). I like the sound of it. I don't think this is a common way to do it, but i have more than one guitar, so experiments like this are fun.
not sure how that happened. When the knob is down, the 2 wires are simply connected, same as when it's just humbucker. There should be, almost can't be a drop in OHM. Unless you got the switch too hot, or changed pots with different ohm. Added a capacitor different then before, thinking it was the same. WHen the knob is down those 2 wires signal should not bleed off. Something is wrong. You like the sound, it's still hotter then a burstbucker3, so you might have just got lucky. If It happens to me, and my 8.5k 490T, then it will sound like total mud. If mine drops like yours I'll come back and post, if I don't return, then mine had no drop...... here goes lol
It would be great if you did another soldering video doing this circuit in real life. Thanks for all your work Dylan! Bob in Germany
If the ends of the winding are connected, and the beginning is left for out and ground, then that is separation in a Parallel connection, right?
What do you do with the other two start wires?
I have a 2007 Firebird VII that is about to get a set of vintage spec FB pickups. It is a three pickup set and I will be using a free-way switch. Are you familiar with this type? If so, how would you wire it up? I have a couple of push-push pots if needed. Each pickup will have 4 wires.
Great info.
By any chance have you done a video on wiring a HSH pickup guitar. I need to wire mine and I am having a problem finding a wiring diagram. I am looking for the standard wiring, not auto split. Thanks and well done video.
Phil
NYC Area
So the start and start wires just don’t go anywhere? How does the sound from the humbucker get to the amp? Seems like a lot of unanswered questions for something that is “all there is to it”.
Hey Dylan, how do you reverse positions 4 and 5 on a Gibson nighthawk that has two humbuckers and the old dimarzio 5 way super switch?
Hi! Does it have to be on the right side or it can be on left side of lug 2 for the two finish wires. I have tried the install but the pickup sounds the same up or down.
I always learn something from this channel and I AM grateful😊
does it have to be on a volume pot, or can i also do it on a tone pot? i have 3 humbuckers that i want to split, and only 2 pots to do it with. ill be using a 5 way switch. i dont want to drill any more holes, so it would be cool if i can use 2 pots (1v,1t) to split the pickups.
Dylan, you do a very good job of explaining things in a way that most of us can understand. Thank you! Question: Do you happen to know the colors of the finish wires on a DiMarzio AT-1? I ordered it but it has not arrived yet, so I can't tell you what colors are there to choose from.
This is the best description I've seen yet on how this works. My question is, how to I incorporate a DPDT switch in a setup where the existing 5 way already does some coil splitting? I have a Charvel DK24 and I would love to be able to have the coil tap toggle that's on the Guthrie Govan signature model (which is what I've described) Any thoughts?
Hey Dylan , just confirming the the push pull pots are the volumes, thats how they are on my Gibson Studio bu Saw another guy saying the push pulls could be on the Tone ?I was hoping to try to get the 50s wiring with the split coils if thats even possible ??
hey Dylan will this same setup work with hot rail pickups?
Thank you so much for the most basic and well explained tut on splitting coils!!! You ROCK!!!!
Ok so while ago this channel got me to go ahead and try alumitone pickups (AWSOME and no noise) im gonna put them in another guitar soon n I've seen something about wiring you coil split to a pot. So the tone pot becoming a coil split "fade knob" you know anything about that?
My name is Dylan too and I been really learning from your videos. Guitar is my life and you help me discover more and more . Thanks for all these great videos. I am going to make my own guitar soon and will do coil splitting
Hey Dylan! So I’m working on a guitar with 2 split coil humbuckers, and I currently have them both soldered to a push/pull pot for a coil tap, but I wanna add an on/on switch to use for outing the neck pickup out of phase. How would I go about doing that? Do I just solder more wire from the pot to the switch? Thanks in advance!
So well explained, thank you. Now I can split my new tele bridge mini humbucker with the DPDT combo tone knob and decide if I want single coil when I pull or single when I push. I used to own a moded Tele Deluxe and I think the push pull pots went single coil when I pulled up, keep it simple.you da man.
Hi,
I have a Casio PG380 Synth guitar.I had to take it apart for obvious reasons.Now I'm trying to rewire the humbucker to a push pull.The problem is that I only have 3 conductors and a ground.The 3 conductor colors are white ,red and blue.The white and blue measure 1.700.The white and red measure the same./The red and blue together and the white read 1.259.So can I assume that the white is the tap?Thanks for any help that you can give me.
i hope i'm not too late to ask this question it is an older thread but...here goes
a variable pot to dial in one side or the other so..at one end of the split sat the bridge side u have it on and as u dial the other side in the bridge gets less as the neck side of the bridge humbucker gets more gain. the idea is to have basically 2 singles and be able to dial in the amount of each one with the middle position on the pot having equal volume ( in effect a parallel humbucker) i hope i'm getting across. not quite the s.duncan approach but similar
What about the 250/500 kohm story? What do i need to do in order to ensure the pickups sound good together?
I have DiMarzios on my RG. On the bridge pickup cane with two wires from each pickup taped together. Are those the ones I would connect to the coil split?
Hi Dylan.
I love your info man thank you. Great to have you passing on education to us all.
Do you have a video on the otax/vlx91 pickup switch for ibanez and how the Jems are wired?
Thanks. not sure if you will see this given age of video, but I have the Gibson PPAT-520 push-pull with only 2 lugs, and have 2-humbuckers, 1-vol, 1-tone, was going to use the PPAT-520 for tone and run each humbucker's north+south finish together into lug 1 on the PPAT-520 and lug 2 to ground. I believe that will work? have a 5-way switch as well to incorporate so still working on the options available with that setup :)
How do you choose the poles so the south pole is the one active in the neck and the north pole is active for the bridge pickup with the coil split?
(Hope you're still here 6 yrs later)
So, if using a mini toggle, the start wires would terminate to their normal position on the volume pot?
A diagram of the whole setup would be awesome.
(Im wanting to split a HB in the neck position of a Tele. Bridge PU is standard Tele)
Thanks for the video!
Dear Dylan, love your videos! This one will get a second installment. pretty sure about that.
Thank you so much for this! I'm so glad I found this wiring diagram. It helped me fixed an older Killer guitar that has been wired incorrectly at some point in its history.
I like your videos. You're good at explaining things in a simple and no-nonsense way.
I've done this to an hss Schecter, but I'm having a problem: In trying to brighten the humbucker, l wired a capacitor to the humbucker, but only one coil is brightened. How do I fix this? There is also a coil split-push/pull master tone knob and one master volume.
Great explanation! For a newby like me, this was so very helpful 👍
Cool. About the mini toggle switch, there are different kinds (On/Off, On/On, On/Off/On and On/On/On. I want to wire my pickup to have a 3 combination (Inside coil, Humbucker and Outside Coil) to be selected individualy. I have a Snake Hollow Body 1973 that has 4 positions rotary switch that does the same (0=Off, 1-=Inside coil, 2=Outside Coil and 3=Humbucker. I'm trying to figure a way to do the same with mini toggles for another guitar, which I believe should be the On/On/On. So, I would have 2 mini toggles On/On/On to select the coils individualy. Am I thinking right?
hi Dylan, this channel is really interesting for those that really care for their instruments and sound!! i have an issue with a les paul and don´t really know where to go, when i play using the bridge pickup with distortion, when i put my hand over the pickup there´s a noise as if the hot wire was being grounded, i live in the middle of the jungle in mexico and don´t really have many options to figure this out, it would be awesome if you coud point me in the rigth directions
Hi Dylan.
Hi to everyone, guitar-electronic enthusiasts.
I hope you can clarify the next question:
¿It's possible, in HH configuration, to have only the outer coils (or only the inner coils) of both pickups, in the middle position of the toggle switch? I would like to avoid using tap-coil pots. The idea is Treble pos: bridge full humbucker; middle pos: outer coils; Rhythm pos: neck full humbucker.
Thaks for the channel, and thanks for your response.
Best regards,
Sorry for my limited language😅
Could you help explain. Same situation same DPDT push pull. But the Luthier I went to first took a single piece of wire and soldered both the middle two lugs (#2 in your drawing) together then soldier grounded them to the case of the pot.
I don’t recall where the other wires went. But it works fine. He said when you push or pull the pot your just grounding out one side of the pot.
Can you please attempt to explain his process. Thanks.
Ps. He the best luthier in Southern California for over 40 years.
if you have one for each picup? i have two seymour duncans
Thanks Dylan, super helpful linear! Crystal clear. Regards, Mike.
Hi dylan wgat exactly means solder to ground??
How would I do a Coil split for a double neck guitar for all the humbuckers?
Does this also work with 3 pickups? And is the rest of the wiring the same as a normal strat? (I am going to build a strat type guitar with single coil sized humbuckers)
where do the other 2 wires go?
Yes I was wondering as well
They go home
They go to the volume pot, depending of which coil you want to select when splitting the humbucker. If you want to select the upper one, that's the wire you want to weld to the volume pot. So you want to weld the start wire of the coil you want to select to the volume pot.
I have a guitar with 4 wires, but I need to revert the split coil. Should I connect each finish and then use one start to hot and the another to ground?
Thx in advance
can you split the sss hotrails to a one togle switch?
To be clear, you can use a regular toggle switch with box, wich is wired the exact same way, right ? It doesn't have to be a mini toggle ?
How about resistors in this application. Can you expand on that. Please.
Is it possible to coil split the Emg 57/66 set?
where do the other wires go
Ground and the 3/5-way switch
Which coil will be muted?
At the moment I'm upgrading my old PRS SE Standard 24 with new pickups and I'm planning on replacing the 3-way blade switch with a 5-way superswitch to allow me to get 1.bridge in series 2. Outside Bridge coil + outside neck coil 3. Bridge + neck both in series humbucking 4. Inside bridge coil + inside neck coil 5. Neck in series humbucking. What I need your help with is in positions 2 & 4 I want the coils to be hum cancelling. Is this possible? Basically I'm wanting to approximate the sound of a tele with both pickups engaged when the 2 outer coils of each humbucker is engaged considering the distance between them and a strat sound with 2 pickups engaged when using the inside coils of each humbuckers is active being closer together having hum cancelling with every position. Complicated. Yes. Doable I'm sure hoping so.
Thanks
Eric D.
Texas
i have a problem understanding grounding , would the ground wire be grounded to the casing of the switch ?
yes
All grounds should be connected together, as well as the ground of your output.
Just getting the reading and viewing before building. You explain so well I had to Sub. Thanks.
Hi Dylan, I know this is a fairly old video. I've just bought a second hand Player series Tele HH, and for some reason when just the bridge pickup is selected, I'm only getting sound when the coils are split, but not in the normal engagement. Do you have any idea why this may be?
You hopefully figured this out by now but something is probably not connected, most likely the opposite side of the humbucker that is getting split. Or, maybe, the side of the bucker that isn't getting split is shorted, or somehow fried. Only 1 way to find out....get diggin
Cool vid Dylan. I need a little help. building a strat for my son. Im splitting hot rails controlled by 3-way switches (on-off-on) and I want to have a master volum, and a tone control for the split config, and a tone for single config.
Here's the concept: My son (12 yoa) wants to a guitar that will come close to a Strat and Les Paul, mimic a Red Special and a Gilmore Strat. I have it set up for three ways on each pickup, phase switches for each while in single config, but Im lost on seting up a tone for the single and humbucker config. Im adding push pulls for tone caps for a little extra.
Thanks
forgot to mention that which coil you want turned off will determine where you will solder connection on the switch. for instance if you wanted to single out the negative one instead of the positive one. Most people just split with the positive coil on though. Just a little extra.
If I reversed the tap with the main hot will it just reverse which coil is on when split? I'm trying to get the coil closest to the neck to come on when split.
i want my humbler to be single in on position and humbler in another in my bridge start. my push pull is volume with a tone bleed.
I wonder if you could do a video, or at least explain how to wire up an on/off/on mini toggle (dpdt) thats used for coil splits AND as a selector switch. Im doing a custom strat that uses mini toggles to switch thru the pickups rather than a normal 5 way blade switch, and what im trying to achieve is to have the lever in one direction act as the coil split, one direction to turn the pickup off, and one direction to have normal humbucker sound. I've worked with 2 way (spdt) switches before on duel humbucker guitars for coil splits, but never on a 3 pickup guitar like a strat. The strat itself is an hsh setup, with the center pickup is a 4 lead, duel rail pickup that can be coil split (the other 2 pickups are 4 lead seymour duncan humbuckers), and im just having trouble figuring out which lugs to use, and which lug to run the wire out to the next switch....oh, and its just a 2 pot system with a simple master volume and master tone. Any light you could shine on this situation would be greatly appriciated :)
what if we want to coil split only the neck pick up how should we do the wiring?
just hook up one pickup this way
I want to be able to switch either coil on or off.
black goes to 5 way switch and green with ground and red and white to dpdt switch and if I want a different slug switch red and black wires for seymour duncan
I am working on a guitar and have a very odd Problem: i only get a Sound when i Touch the Tone Pot and the strings! Can anyone Tell me whats going on?
So do the start wires just go to ground?
thats what I was wondering
I can not understand when 1 start and 2 ffnish connected each other how it works? it not to be.... because off short circuit
Awesome brother. Great videos!
I’m failing to hook my sd hybrid up. The volume won’t go down...
Thanks again man.
bless you bro! you saved me here
I'm very confused where does the start wires go?
what about the other two wires? do we just leave them out?
radulica they are your normal hot and ground.
When you spit the humbucker, how do you know WHICH COIL is going to be engaged?
Dylan doesn't have any idea what he's talking about here.
You will be using the coil that has one end connected to the switch and the other one to your standard signal connection. The coil that has one end connected to the switch and the other end to ground will be shorted out and therefore not active. Dylan didn't "connect" any of the two remaining wires in his schematics, so he basically left it up to you.
Which one is which depends entirely on how you wire your pickup. If you know the wiring of your pickup and wire it appropriately, you can therefore choose which one of the coils will be active (for example for the purpose of achieving hum canceling in the inbetween positions with coil split).
Just bear in mind that depending on how the leads are wired, you might be wiring the pickup out of phase with another one or even with itself (when in the humbucking mode), so it's not completely trivial to figure out if you do a more involved wiring, and might take a bit of trial and error.
You're right, dylan, your lashes are perfect.
love the t-shirt :)
Where many guitarists fuck up with coil splitting, is they don't add a resistor in parallel to the pot, when the switch is engaged for splitting. By not switching in a 250k ohm resistor in, they are trying to run a single coil pickup off from a 500k ohm pot, which kills it's tone.
dpdt stands for what?
Double pole double throw
Dylan I'm reading down the posts. It's a real bummer that you never answer anyone's post's.
David Kennedy I do what I can. We have over 400 videos so it’s tough to keep up. Sometimes the conversation just leads itself and doesn’t need me
@@DylanTalksTone then you should not encourage people to ask questions as you did at the end of the vídeo.
@@luizfmartins4182 if you subscribed and kept up with our videos you would see that we make videos to address almost every question AND we address specific questions from comments AND mention by name the people that ask the question. We do our best... hundreds of questions a week... we do our best.
I like your shirt 🌱
I need some help. I know electronics, but not guitars. My son wants to build a strat with hot rails split. He wants to have phase switches on the singles, and a separate tone knob for the single and one for humbuckers. I have wired it on paper a hundred times, but I keep finding errors. Want to give it a go?
Not sure why you guys all ignore the rest of the wiring in these videos? Where do the ground and bare wire go? Where does the pickup hot wire go?
Why can’t you use a switch with 3 contacts instead of 6?
You could
This dudes lashes are perfect
Not every day... but most of the time
fire.
hold on wait...if im looking at your DPDT the right way, wouldn't this just "open" the circuit?
ahh ok nvm, one "start" must be connected to ground, I got ya. Good vid, might wanna clarify that though.
I accidentally screwed through my body -_- whilst attempting to screw an earth wire in.... YEah so to mask my major idiotic messup, Im going to make that hole bigger and install one of these. Luckily there is enough room in the cavity and between the pup selector switch and the tone knobs to do this.. *Face palm*.. Good job its a cheap project guitar and not something more expensive.
Nice shirt.
So real women wont engulf the meat, sucks to be you.
bad diagram.. explain top an bottom of the Push Pull switch
pay better attention
Yeah great, Now WTF do you do with the hot wires? Top coil to #1 and bottom coil to #3? And what about the jumper connections to insure that both coils have circuit flow thru to the pots and then to ground? You need to put a LOT more work into your vids dude.
Hey just prop the book your looking at up and film that..a manual..come back in 5 min..turn off camera..more informative,less stuttering and no gag reflex when finished..dude you couldn't find a friggin guitar or at least a pickup for a visual? Epic fail..and I am subscribing for sure..we're going to have you run all day at the shop.. Guitar Shop that is..oh your artwork is priceless behind you as is your drawn diagram... medication man..be calm...it's ok..lmao
Actually ... there is no book.
😂 what? Where the starts go? Magic?
Half a job.
This was horrible /:
thanks so much for watching. I am going to make an updated one so let me know what else you would like to know
@@DylanTalksTone I was an avionics tech in the Navy so I know with the average or "layperson" circuit drawings and schematics don't cut it. Like you, I kept assuming that people had the base knowledge to work from, which I finally figured out that they don't. Even the simple concept of "ground" was foreign to many. It's easy for some, not so much for others. If you really want to teach and get your point across to these guys you're going to have to actually create a video with step-by-step component wiring with a real guitar, switches and pickups including real-world soldering. Incorporate your circuit drawings as part of your lesson showing how the drawing translates to actual physical components. In other words; start with the lowest common denominator, in this case, your lowest comprehending student! If you don't take that extra step you will continue to frustrate your audience as well as yourself. Until you make that effort, can you really say you're "doing the best you can"? Sure, it might actually take a few videos, but if you're smart and you are monetizing your channel you can insert a few ads so it actually pays for itself! If people are actually learning something they will stay tuned in to glean the knowledge you have to share.
Another fail explanation….
SHOW US THE COMPLETED WIRED PICKUP
SHOW US THE WIRES
SHOW US THE INTERNAL DIFFS BETWEEN A SINGLE COIL, DOUBLE COIL IN PHASE AND OUT OF PHASE… show us the wiring of a hum bucket….
How about som sound samples of each of the above
#gratitude
@@DylanTalksTone thank you
You need to learn some
@@DylanTalksTone I guess you’re right… two years of formal electronic training… and many years working on pianos and teaching as a college aviation instructor…. I don’t know much…. Which is why I was hoping to see just the comparative diffs between… series in vs out of phase… parallel in vs out of phase… actual volts as the out put of each of the above and compared against volts out compared to a P90…. Therefore optimum caps for moderate tone trimming…. yes… I need to learn some….. I’m guessing that you have none of the above info…nor might you have any concept of an LRC tank
I do. Just not in this video. We have 1500 videos. I mean… since you shared your flex, it appears you already know these things and just wanted to flex… that’s not my jam. I’m not impressed by what you know… it’s the gratitude you need to learn.
AWFUL SOUND QUALITY! how ironic! lol
at least I don't look like you lol
@@DylanTalksTone wow that's nothing to do with the channel the video or sound quality for that matter... but hey what ever makes you feel like your in middle school again. Hope your channel improves and so your actitud good luck sir.
@@jjcarter6539 lol... i just think meaningless comments are funny... why people take the time to criticize something g that doesn't really matter is beyond me...
@@DylanTalksTone maybe I was harsh I get it and I'm sorry if I made you feel bad... But saying that sound quality or your video don't matter ... Idk men ... Plus you are reply quiet often too.
@@jjcarter6539 lol ... youtube comments don't make me feel bad. I also don't regret any videos I've ever made even if the something wasn't right... 600 videos and I'm always trying things. Of one misses every now and then, I just learn and move on...
I must've watched this 70 times, and i still cant get it figured out. You say its easy. Everythings easy when you know how to do it. But im sorry, this video just falls short of explaining things for me. This is like saying "Lasagna is easy. Its just noodles and meat".
I'm assuming this video is for people who understand how a regular humbucker is wired (fair enough, he shouldve mentioned it). If you've installed pickups before, you'll know how switches and pots work. This video explains what to do with those remaining two wires, that I never knew what to do with. If you ground them - coils are split. If you don't - you get humbuckers. I may be in the minority here, but this video was exactly what I needed.