Wiring my pickups, really want help :(

[Jonny]

GAH! Double postage.. Sorry :(

If anyone could give me their email address so I could talk to them like that, would be much appreciated.

So I got BKPs and I want to install them. But I can't relate the schematic with what I'm looking at.

All I know so far is that the black and screen (bare wire?) is to be soldered onto the trem to ground it.

I don't know where the green, white or red goes to on the pickup selector.

Here's a few pics:

[HTH AMPS]

The easy answer is to trace back where the wires are currently going to and do the same with your BKPs.

Does your guitar ONLY have a single vol pot and a 3-way switch? (no tone pot)

 :twisted:

[Jonny]

Yep. One volume, one coil tap, and pick up selector. That's it.

The wires aren't the same color.

[FELINEGUITARS]

Black wire and braid soldered to back of pot
Red wire to input tag of 3 way switch
white and green soldered together and to appropriate  tag on coil tap swith

[Jonny]

Which one's the input tag?
And which is the appropriate one, lol?

I got it wired! I got a sound![/b] but not the right sound.. a terrible horrible sound... as if my guitar changed into a 'drum & bass' synth machine or something.

But I don't know why..

[il˙ti]

I think it would be best just to wire everything back as it was before, just leave the pickups unwired. Take it to the shop and have someone experienced do it for you while you see how it's done. As far as I understand, you wire the pickup to the pot only, not to the selector switch or to the bridge. Those things are already wired to the pot.

[WezV]

if this is the guitar in the other thread then you are correct to wire it too the switch first.

control layout is 3-way switch, master volume  and is there a coil tap as well??

if it was seperate volumes for each pup it would go to the volume before the switch but it aint.


In your picture of the switch you have the green wire going to the hot tags, red and white taped together and black/ground to the back of the switch

wWith BKP's the red wire should go to the hot tag where the green is in the photo.  Green and white should be taped together and the black should go to the back of the switch.

All the other wires should be just like they were. will do you a diagram in a mo

[WezV]

The black wires are gound wires and i have drawn them all on which you dont normally get on diagrams.  

if i am wrong about there being a coil tap leave of that middle switch and jhust tape of the green and white wires.  speaking of which, it might have 6 tags instead of three.  if it does you can use each side to coil tap both pickups

ideally i would have sent the black wires from the pickups to the back of the volume pot with all the other grounds but i dont think your control cavities are together are they

[Jonny]

I think that sort of worked. But it still sounds shitee. I did how you showed it there. But the sound keeps fading. And the higher strings just give no sound at all, even when I adjust the humbuckers so they're closer. Just nothing.

[badgermark]

Then take it to be done properly. Sorry but if you can't see what's wrong then get someone who knows what to do to fix it.

[Jonny]

Yeah, I guess I will.

The warpig is loud as anything, but it still cuts out.
And the Cold Sweat just dies and doesn't do anything.

My birthday's just a bad day... -_-

[WezV]

yeah - take it to a pro.  but personally i would ask if you can see what they do so can learn a bit at the same time.  not all techs will like that idea.

[ailean]

Yeah, I guess I will.

The warpig is loud as anything, but it still cuts out.
And the Cold Sweat just dies and doesn't do anything.

My birthday's just a bad day... -_-

Sorry to hear it's gone wrong for you, and it's a shame when you can't get your new toys to work, but hey, look on the bright side, at least you can't break a pup by wiring it up wrong, if you'd done that to your PC you'd be looking at the Blue Smoke of Death :)