5 leads from a Pickup? SD Jazz Hotstacks

[tortoise.sg]

Hi guys,

Need some help here.. I just unwired my Jazz bass to put in my new Audere preamp.. But in the process forgot to remember which wires are supposed to go where.. I wired it up with black as the lead and the rest as ground.. didn't work.. I had the pickup instructions but trashed it when i first wired it up a year ago.. and it worked then so ya..

It reads STK on the pickups
There are 5 wires per pickup.

Black - I'm very sure this is the lead.
White and Red these 2 were soldered together
Green and Unshielded these 2 were soldered together and i'm pretty sure these are the ground.

and also about the Audere preamp, I'm not sure which lead to which wire too. there is one for the neck pup, one for the bridge pup. and the last one for the earth? but there is a grounding wire from the input jack so I'm not sure.

any help would be appreciated.

regards,
Eugene

[millahh]

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support...ss_stacks.html

Green & unshielded go to ground. Black as the lead. Leave the red & white floating, unless you're doing a coil tap.

[tortoise.sg]

Thanks for the prompt help.
Strange how I couildn't find that on the website.
You mentioned coil tap. How does that work for single coils?

Eugene

[millahh]

It was listed under support -> wiring, rather than with the info on the pickup itself...

As far as a coil tap, the hot stacks are stacked humbuckers. The red & white wires are the lead of one coil and the ground of the other, soldered together so that the two coils act in series. If you connect the red/white leads to ground, it will completely ground one of the coils, resulting in getting a signal from only the second coil in the series. This is easily done by adding a switch...in one position the leads are floating, in the other they connect to ground (and therefore the coil is tapped).

[Audere]

Originally Posted by tortoise.sg

Hi guys,

Need some help here.. I just unwired my Jazz bass to put in my new Audere preamp.. But in the process forgot to remember which wires are supposed to go where.. I wired it up with black as the lead and the rest as ground.. didn't work.. I had the pickup instructions but trashed it when i first wired it up a year ago.. and it worked then so ya..

It reads STK on the pickups
There are 5 wires per pickup.

Black - I'm very sure this is the lead.
White and Red these 2 were soldered together
Green and Unshielded these 2 were soldered together and i'm pretty sure these are the ground.

and also about the Audere preamp, I'm not sure which lead to which wire too. there is one for the neck pup, one for the bridge pup. and the last one for the earth? but there is a grounding wire from the input jack so I'm not sure.

any help would be appreciated.

regards,
Eugene

Hi

I assume this is a 3ZB preamp?

So the braded is a shield - connect this to the grey/white wire (connected to your jack)

Leave white and red connected (this makes the pickup humbucking) - you can make it single coil and change the series/parallel connection style later

Connect the black to the black/white (bridge) or blue/white (neck)
Connect the green to the green/white

Do not connect the green/white to ground - it will not sound good (lots of distortion)

You might want to email me for faster response if you need more help

David

[tortoise.sg]

WOW! I got a response from the boss! And my thread title didn't even say "Audere".

Thanks so much.. Will mail you if I need more help