Hah, the timing of this video couldn’t be more perfect! I was just trying to explain to a friend why I wanted him to purchase a different pickup, he purchased a two wire not knowing there was a difference, he obviously wanted me to give him coil splitting capability however he had the wrong style pickup 🤣 I’m going to send him the link to this video since you’ve just explained it here so much better than I ever would Dylan, thanks for doing this man! 🤙 PS ~ I always have a hell of a time stripping back the vintage braided two wire style braided ones, I’ve used strippers, cutting pliers etc… How do you do it so it’s easier and more importantly neater? The strippers just don’t peel it real neatly here ( Ya, I’m pretty anal about making the wiring as neat as possible 🤣 ). Thanks again!
Great video for those trying to figure things out. I've referenced one or more of your "older" coil splitting videos MANY times in the past when working on mine. Thanks!
Do you have any videos on why pickups fail. I had a neck humbucker stop working. So i ordered another. Which failed to work too. So i currently have wired in a spare bridge humbucker i had. But it doesn't sound great obv I just don't understand how they would fail? I guess the coil wire breaks? Maybe?
I so enjoyed this video! I want to see more deep diving into pickup wiring. Bored with HH 3-way selecter switch....how do I change my HH to a 5-way switch with push/pull pots?cheers Dylan
Thanks a lot for your lecture again Dylan. I noticed that you mentioned a little about the signal flow direction of a pickup (or of a humbucker pickup), is it possible you can elaborate more about this in your future video please? I always struggle to understand whether the sound signal is flowing from the ground terminal to hot terminal or the way round. Also, I understand that with a 4-conductor humbucker pickup, we can do coil-splitting, can we also decide which coil we want to sound and which coil to ground? Many thanks in advance! Again, great videos and lectures as always! Cheers from Hong Kong.
liked and subbed. Yes You were right not to jump on the redundant bandwagon. I don't understand why people think a buzzillion video on H v. S is necessary...
This might be a good time to ask this, especially since the topic includes 4-wire humbuckers. Is there any significant difference, outside of DCR, between wiring the two coils in series vs in parallel?
Came to try and get some understanding of humbuckers as im building my first guitar which is a multi scale baritone and I'm attempting to modify some cheap Amazon humbuckers to be multi scale ones before upgrading to better ones. I am unsure if perspex would be an ok base plate material or if i need a conductive base plate? Any help would be most appreciated 👍
OK, according to that scheme, the majority of HB is connected to the end of the north with the end of the south PU, the start of the south is the ground, and the start of the north is the hot part-circuit. I am interested in your opinion in the case when the HB is wired differently, so that the start PU is connected. Connected start of the north with the start of the south PU, the end of the north is grounding, and the end of the south is the hot part - circuit. Is there a difference in tone with this way of binding, compared to the standard one, in case it works as a humbucker? The signal path is different in that case, isn't it?
Hi, I’m just starting on cheap guitars and have a Wilkinson m series neck position. 4 wires, red, white, black ground , yellow hot. No diagram, is it red, white together and not connected, yellow hot to pot pole and black ground to the top of the pot?. Just a straight pickup swap everything else is wired. Thanks
Hello sir very interesting video. I have subscribed and will be watching your stuff in the future. Currently I have a guitar with only a volume knob no selector switch or tone. It has one humbucker in it. It has one red wire coming out of it going to that volume knob And I want to put in a fleor hot rail that has 15 K of output and it has four wires, the red white, green and black and a bare silver wire looking like a ground. That’s just straight silver with no shielding. I want to get to complete 15 K out of it so I don’t wanna coil split as in your video. What would I do here would I make that centerpoint out of the green and black and just do the red and white to the volume knob and also what do I do with that silver bare wire? thank you, 0:35 I’ll wait for your reply. I am going to reply to my own comment with a couple of pictures.
Is each of the single coil in the humbucker wound the same, eg. number of turns, DC resistance and inductance? If not, will it affect the hum cancelling ability?
I just was thinking: why is it that most humbuckers are made where both coils are wound in the same direction and then have their finishes attached to each other rather than winding each coil in opposite directions and doing start-to-finish from one coil to the next? Is there some hum-cancelling benefit to having the opposing coil's signal direction going from the "outside" of the bobbin inwards (i.e. from Finish to Start)? Just curious, I suppose in general it's just easier to have a setup where you wind all your coils in the same direction as back in the day they probably used whatever they had lying around to wind the coils (sewing machines, etc.)
Shout out to Matt & Chris at TTG! Note to you guys and Dylan, I'm a regular viewer/commenter who was subbed to both your channels since early Covid and apparently YT has repeatedly unsubbed me. I can only guess this is because I've freely criticized certain guitar brands by name- not the guitars necessarily but more the corporate management of a few of the companies who build and sell them. I've resubbed a few times, some time would go by, and I'd start to wonder why I'm not getting your channels or notifications in my YT feed. This also seems to be happening to other YT viewers on a number of other channels. How or why, who knows? But it's happening. Seems possible that YT is somehow picking winners among their content providers by manipulating your raw channel analytics. That's just my 'conspiracy theory' anyway. Still watching, still hitting the thumbs up, but not currently being reflected in your subscribership numbers. Anyone else experiencing this?
How about the Burstbucker pickups? Burstbuckers have a total of five: red, white, black, green, and bare wire. How would that be wired for a standard humbucker in an SG or LP, say, lacking the coil splitting feature?
We know electrical current will take the shortest path to ground. I dont get why a pickup bobbin with unshielded copper wire maintains a circuit thru its coil and doesn't just short to ground immediately.
Not surprised that you use a fountain pen and a Rhodia pad.
Very instructive video. I actually get what is going on in a humbucker now.
This was a great video on what is a Humbucker. I assume part 2 will follow on how to actually wire it i.e. connect it to a loom!
Hah, the timing of this video couldn’t be more perfect! I was just trying to explain to a friend why I wanted him to purchase a different pickup, he purchased a two wire not knowing there was a difference, he obviously wanted me to give him coil splitting capability however he had the wrong style pickup 🤣 I’m going to send him the link to this video since you’ve just explained it here so much better than I ever would Dylan, thanks for doing this man! 🤙
PS ~ I always have a hell of a time stripping back the vintage braided two wire style braided ones, I’ve used strippers, cutting pliers etc… How do you do it so it’s easier and more importantly neater? The strippers just don’t peel it real neatly here ( Ya, I’m pretty anal about making the wiring as neat as possible 🤣 ).
Thanks again!
Great video for those trying to figure things out. I've referenced one or more of your "older" coil splitting videos MANY times in the past when working on mine. Thanks!
Thank you so much for this content! I get it now 🙂 Hi from the UK
you do a good job w this stuff dylan. ding dong says " u yanks soldering " ding dong !
8:45 thank you for that. Ive figured as much but its counter intuitive.
Do you have any videos on why pickups fail. I had a neck humbucker stop working. So i ordered another. Which failed to work too. So i currently have wired in a spare bridge humbucker i had. But it doesn't sound great obv
I just don't understand how they would fail? I guess the coil wire breaks? Maybe?
Great explanation
Thanks - great video, concise explanation - Cheers from Canada
Fun guitar nerd video. Congrates on hitting 100K!
Liked the video! Thanks for the humbucker content.
bold life choice with the LH fountain pen 👌
Why? I wrote w a fountain pen every day.
I so enjoyed this video! I want to see more deep diving into pickup wiring. Bored with HH 3-way selecter switch....how do I change my HH to a 5-way switch with push/pull pots?cheers Dylan
Thanks a lot for your lecture again Dylan. I noticed that you mentioned a little about the signal flow direction of a pickup (or of a humbucker pickup), is it possible you can elaborate more about this in your future video please? I always struggle to understand whether the sound signal is flowing from the ground terminal to hot terminal or the way round.
Also, I understand that with a 4-conductor humbucker pickup, we can do coil-splitting, can we also decide which coil we want to sound and which coil to ground?
Many thanks in advance! Again, great videos and lectures as always! Cheers from Hong Kong.
liked and subbed. Yes You were right not to jump on the redundant bandwagon. I don't understand why people think a buzzillion video on H v. S is necessary...
This might be a good time to ask this, especially since the topic includes 4-wire humbuckers.
Is there any significant difference, outside of DCR, between wiring the two coils in series vs in parallel?
Came to try and get some understanding of humbuckers as im building my first guitar which is a multi scale baritone and I'm attempting to modify some cheap Amazon humbuckers to be multi scale ones before upgrading to better ones. I am unsure if perspex would be an ok base plate material or if i need a conductive base plate? Any help would be most appreciated 👍
OK, according to that scheme, the majority of HB is connected to the end of the north with the end of the south PU, the start of the south is the ground, and the start of the north is the hot part-circuit.
I am interested in your opinion in the case when the HB is wired differently, so that the start PU is connected. Connected start of the north with the start of the south PU, the end of the north is grounding, and the end of the south is the hot part - circuit. Is there a difference in tone with this way of binding, compared to the standard one, in case it works as a humbucker?
The signal path is different in that case, isn't it?
Hi, I’m just starting on cheap guitars and have a Wilkinson m series neck position. 4 wires, red, white, black ground , yellow hot. No diagram, is it red, white together and not connected, yellow hot to pot pole and black ground to the top of the pot?. Just a straight pickup swap everything else is wired. Thanks
Hello sir very interesting video. I have subscribed and will be watching your stuff in the future. Currently I have a guitar with only a volume knob no selector switch or tone. It has one humbucker in it. It has one red wire coming out of it going to that volume knob And I want to put in a fleor hot rail that has 15 K of output and it has four wires, the red white, green and black and a bare silver wire looking like a ground. That’s just straight silver with no shielding. I want to get to complete 15 K out of it so I don’t wanna coil split as in your video. What would I do here would I make that centerpoint out of the green and black and just do the red and white to the volume knob and also what do I do with that silver bare wire? thank you, 0:35 I’ll wait for your reply. I am going to reply to my own comment with a couple of pictures.
Very interesting, always had a thing for pickups .
Is each of the single coil in the humbucker wound the same, eg. number of turns, DC resistance and inductance? If not, will it affect the hum cancelling ability?
I just was thinking: why is it that most humbuckers are made where both coils are wound in the same direction and then have their finishes attached to each other rather than winding each coil in opposite directions and doing start-to-finish from one coil to the next? Is there some hum-cancelling benefit to having the opposing coil's signal direction going from the "outside" of the bobbin inwards (i.e. from Finish to Start)? Just curious, I suppose in general it's just easier to have a setup where you wind all your coils in the same direction as back in the day they probably used whatever they had lying around to wind the coils (sewing machines, etc.)
Of course, they all have 4 wires but when I get them I only want 2.
Shout out to Matt & Chris at TTG! Note to you guys and Dylan, I'm a regular viewer/commenter who was subbed to both your channels since early Covid and apparently YT has repeatedly unsubbed me. I can only guess this is because I've freely criticized certain guitar brands by name- not the guitars necessarily but more the corporate management of a few of the companies who build and sell them. I've resubbed a few times, some time would go by, and I'd start to wonder why I'm not getting your channels or notifications in my YT feed. This also seems to be happening to other YT viewers on a number of other channels. How or why, who knows? But it's happening. Seems possible that YT is somehow picking winners among their content providers by manipulating your raw channel analytics. That's just my 'conspiracy theory' anyway. Still watching, still hitting the thumbs up, but not currently being reflected in your subscribership numbers. Anyone else experiencing this?
Nice pen!!!😊👍
How about the Burstbucker pickups? Burstbuckers have a total of five: red, white, black, green, and bare wire. How would that be wired for a standard humbucker in an SG or LP, say, lacking the coil splitting feature?
All the bare wire does is grounds the baseplate to the pots
Another cool video thanks
Write l hand, play r hand! Ambidextrous! \m/
We know electrical current will take the shortest path to ground. I dont get why a pickup bobbin with unshielded copper wire maintains a circuit thru its coil and doesn't just short to ground immediately.
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How about a 6-wire humbucker with coil-tap on each coil?
Waste of time
@@DylanTalksTone You don't need several pedals to play but it may be fun.
It IS ok to salt your Hamm's though !
do they still make Hamm's? LOL
@@leftyo9589 I am drinking one as I text !
What do north and south mean though? Oh never mind you just answered.
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