The Guitar Wiring Blog – Diagrams and Tips: 4-Wire Humbucker Connections from The Guitar Wiring Blog
The Guitar Wiring Blog is an old established site where I picked lots of diagram when I started modifying guitars.
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I’ve made a diagram that shows how 4-wire guitar pickup (Humbuckers) are configured. It can help you understand how many types of Guitar P-Up Wiring (like coil split, series, parallel) works.
As you can see, a humbucker is a guitar pickup made up of two coils. It’s basically like two single-coil P-ups on a plate in series, out of phase with reverse polarity (north / south). Sometimes they share a magnetic bar, sometimes they have independent magnets.
All guitar pickup wire fun is based on changing their relationships. The examples in the illustration show two basic, popular methods of wiring 4-wire humbuckers. The first example shows typical HB cabling. The second shows the split-coil system.
As you can see, the split humbucker configuration is based on a work coil with the hot wire. The second is connected to earth via both wires. This coil doesn’t work like a pickup, but is part of the guitar wiring ground. So a humbucker can work like a single coil guitar pup.
Coils for HB usually differ from coils for classic SCs. Because of this, you likely won’t get the true Strat guitar tone with a split humb. It doesn’t mean you’re getting the worst of sounds. It means that I am writing over two, slightly different types of tones.
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I am Hervé Senni, a pro musician and performer, Composer and arranger for quite some time. My main musical instrument is the electric guitar. I am also a bass player, mandolin, Ukulele player. I also invented string instruments.
Over the years, repairing and improving electric guitars that did not have to be upgraded converted me into a self-taught luthier.
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Hervé Senni
I am Hervé Senni, a pro musician and performer, Composer and arranger for quite some time. My main musical instrument is the electric guitar. I am also a bass player, mandolin, Ukulele player. I also invented string instruments. Over the years, repairing and improving electric guitars that did not have to be upgraded converted me into a self-taught luthier. Read More
