pickup wiring question

duffman · June 2006

Hey all, relatively new here(just got my gnx3k a month ago, definetly love this thing). I'm asking this here because you guys seem to really know your stuff, anyways heres the deal. I have a jackson dkmg that I just put the emg 85/81 set into. They work and all, but I'm not sure if the switch is wired correctly, since a buddy and I just sort of winged it and did some trial and error(I'm an idiot and just pulled all the old wiring out without marking down where everything went). It's a 3 way blade switch that doesnt seem to match up with any diagrams I've found online, and it seems that I've searched just about everywhere. The switch has 8 solder points on it, all on the same side of a small metal box. I can upload pics if that would help, or if anyone has a Jackson or guitar with the same style switch and could check out how it should be wired that would be great.

Manitou · June 2006

First off...Howdy duffman...welcome!
I posted what I thought answered your switch...but after looking at it again ...I need to check into this further. :oops: :P
I am pretty sure I have the same switch on my DK2, but it's wired H-S-S.
regards Manitou

shredd · June 2006

Yah, you might have things outta phase or something like that. There are some of the posts on the 3-way that're supposed to be empty, or connected to each other. Tyr looking at this:
http://www.1728.com/guitar.htm

Or this:
http://www.guitarnuts.com/wiring/stockgibson.php (remembering that with basic Les Paul wiring, there's a Vol/Tone for each pup; with a dinky you'll be putting both pups to the same set of controls)

Either that, or you can send it to me and I'll build it and set it up for you, in exchnage for the loving devotion of the hottest girl you know...

Manitou · June 2006

shredd....this is the switch on my Jackson DK2 showing the Chinese Awfooie Switch I think duffman may have. Mine is wired for H-S-S. I looked at those sites too. Maybe he's wiring up the Zakk Wylde EMG set. Mine are Duncan. You can see top 4 posts are not used.

duffman · June 2006

Yep, thats the switch. Haha thats real different than the way we hooked mine up. Yeah its the Zakk Wylde set, I'm thinking that the type of pickups doesnt really matter, it's mainly just finding out which solder points get hooked up to the pickup leads. In that picture, I'm guessing that the two white wires at the top, and the green wire are going to the pickups?

Thanks a bunch

Manitou · June 2006

duffman...mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm B-E-E-R

...right ...the black wire you can see off the end there, and the first large white wire come off the volume pot. Since I have 3 pickups...your right...they are the bottom three..H (green) S(white) S (white). The order looks reversed. Neck pickup is the very bottom, then the middle pickup, and finally the green bridge humbucker.

Hope this puts you in business.

duffman · June 2006

Haha yep, gotta love the simpsons. Thanks alot for the help. I tried hooking it up like yours is, but I'm thinking that theres a difference in the fact that I have a 3 way, vs. the 5 way in yours, since when I did that there was alot of static and I couldn't get a middle position sound. Tomorrow I think I'm just going to get a new 3-way switch and start fresh.

Thanks again for the help though

pickup wiring question

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