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Need wiring help!

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Bassslayer69

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Mar 21, 2007
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#1
Ok! This one is gonna be tough!

I have 2 dual coil humbuckers I want to install in my bass.
I want to wire them up so that when I pull up on my push pull volume pot I get only the two inner coils to activate (for that jazz bass tone)And when I push down, I get both pickups actived in parallel.

I have absolutely NO idea what to do!

could some kindly wiring guru post me a photoshop diagram or something?

P.S my pickups are each equipped with 4 conductor wiring+ground.
Thanx in advance!
 
#2
You can only really do this if your pickups have 4 wires coming out instead of 2. If it has 4 you can do coil tapping as you desire, but if you have two then the pickup is only putting out the whole lot so you cant coil tap. I hope that makes sense.

Anyway, here is a standard wiring diagram for soapbar pickups:

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#5
This is a basic diagram of how you split coils on a 4-wire pickup using a push/pull. This is the Seymour Duncan wiring color code so yours may be different. Basically the two wires that would normally get soldered together end up going to the switch. You just need to make sure you kill the coil you want when activating the switch.


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#8
Here is the schematic for what you described...

Edit:
color code added.
 

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#9
jwymore said:
This is a basic diagram of how you split coils on a 4-wire pickup using a push/pull. This is the Seymour Duncan wiring color code so yours may be different. Basically the two wires that would normally get soldered together end up going to the switch. You just need to make sure you kill the coil you want when activating the switch.
Click to expand...

FWIW, that is a series-split coil diagram...
He is looking for a parallel-split coil diagram.
 
#15
It looks like it goes:

North Coil + = Black
North Coil - = White
South Coil + = Red
South Coil - = Green

but otherwise the north and south coils are inverted.

Try it like in the diagram, and then tap the pole pieces with a screw driver to see whether the inner or outer coils are active in single coil mode.
If the wrong coils are active, swap the black and red wires, and swap the white and green wires.
 

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