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Dirtyworks

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Mounting question
« on: April 13, 2013, 07:05:40 AM »
How should the pickups be mounted on the guitar?


If we were able to see the writing on the back of the pickup, which way should they be mounted?
Right now (on both neck and bridge), the cable coming out of the pickup is opposite the cavity exit, like the bridge pickup depicts. Should they be the other way around, so that the cable coming from the pickup is closest the cavity exit (as the neck depicts)?

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Re: Mounting question
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2013, 10:34:13 PM »
Seriously? 2 days and no one can answer a simple question?
« Last Edit: April 18, 2013, 11:07:04 AM by Dirtyworks »

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Re: Mounting question
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2013, 11:20:47 PM »
Thought someone else who is more sure might chime in, but now I might as well. In most cases people answer faster, but the tech portion of the forum is not as highly frequented. Sometimes things get overlooked. I am not 100% on this far from that as I donīt quite recall where the engraving and wires come out relative to each other, so basecally not really how these should be. Would be easier on normal HBs which are not double screw rows.
Normaly you want the slug coil to be the inner coil, as that will deliver the splits you are used to. If you turn em around like I do (slug coil outer) you get different sounds when the split and their general sound is slightly brighter, but rather negligibly so.
Thing is that if I am not horribly mistaken it should be irrelevant in this case, as the AM does not really have slug coil (2 hot / screw coils) and is symmetrically wound, so only if you are going about splitting it this might matter as you would now get the outer coils I think (?). If you are doing split wiring this is an easy test after all. Give em a tap with the old screwdriver to see which ones are still on. Just turn em the way you want em for splits then, matter of taste (though as said, most like the split coil to be the inner).
If there might be implications when using other special wirings such as out of phase I cannot say, but I doubt it.

Bottom line: If you are not splitting them the way they are turned should not matter on these ones.
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Re: Mounting question
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2013, 12:46:08 AM »
Usual orientation of humbuckers is that bridge wire exits bottom right and neck one exits upper left.

May just be that you asked a question on the first sunny weekend of the year and people were elsewhere
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Re: Mounting question
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2013, 11:06:37 AM »
Alright, thanks for the replies, guys. The guitar didn't come with the Ibanez 5-way, and instead a teles 3-way. I bought a strats 5-way and it just wasn't working. I gave up (at least for now) trying to work it out and did the pickups on the 3-way switch.

What effect would come of soldering the green and white wires (north and south finishing leads) to the middle position, instead of bridging the reds?

EDIT: Would that mean it'll be mounted the opposite of what I've shown in the picture?
« Last Edit: April 18, 2013, 11:18:09 AM by Dirtyworks »

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Re: Mounting question
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2013, 02:02:33 PM »

What effect would come of soldering the green and white wires (north and south finishing leads) to the middle position, instead of bridging the reds?

The green and white wires are soldered together for normal series humbucking operation. Putting these wires to ground will switch off one coil for single coil operation. If you put this to the middle position it may be that the other coil is shut off when the switch is in the middle position, or the coil is generally shut off.

What do you want to achieve with the wiring, i.e. which pickup combinations do you want?

EDIT: Would that mean it'll be mounted the opposite of what I've shown in the picture?

Yes.

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Re: Mounting question
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2013, 09:35:53 PM »
I'm not sure what I want to achieve with the green and white.
I rarely use the middle position anyway.

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Re: Mounting question
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2013, 09:50:35 AM »
In that case I would solder the white and green together, tape it and not connect it to anything. BTW most of my humbucker guitars are set up like this. And I am also a bridge or neck only guy, playing about 2/3 of my time on the bridge and the rest on the neck.

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Re: Mounting question
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2013, 10:32:03 AM »
And I am also a bridge or neck only guy, playing about 2/3 of my time on the bridge and the rest on the neck.

Cheers Stephan
I do that too until I had one of my axes wired Petrucci style. That means in the middle position the inner coils of both PUs are on to give you somewhat of a strat sound, which I found very usable. Still use neck or bridge more, but for certain lead runs or riffs and especially clean stuff I really like to use it sometimes, loads more than a normal middle position which I hardly ever find a use for anyhow.
Only problem is that you need a 3 way switch with a lot of poles (canīt recall how many) for that one if you want an autosplit.
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