m200cort Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 hey i am a newbie at guitar building/repair... i have an electric guitar that i want to put a different distortion pickup in, but i have no clue on how to do it. if any one that is expierenced in this area please let me know what i am doing. thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cr_XD Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 all you have to do is desolder the wires that go from the pickup to the pots and wire the new ones instead. there should be no problem if they have the same number of wires, in case the number was different, and you wanted to go for something a little bit more complicated as coil phase reversal.... check out the tutorial pages, tutorials or go to guitarElectronicsto the wiring diagrams section and have a look Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonamemx Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 CRXD does not realize that he is speaking spanish to the newb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jehle Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 Buenos dias m200cort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hy_dro66 Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 Basically, the pickup will typically have two wires coming from it, connected to the potentiometer(volume control) or the switch. One wire goes to a pin on the pot(or switch), the other goes to ground. All you have to do remove one pickup and connect the other(putting the wires of the new where the wires of the old were). There are always issues though. Some pickups use different color wires for ground, some have 4 wires instead of two...the list goes on. So I don't have enough space to explain it all. Search this site and the web to learn all the details. You'll get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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