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Twin jazz wiring help

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Sep 21, 2004
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I'm making a twin jazz pickup out of a set of Dimarzio J. Two split coil J pickups glued together.
I'm planning to have single J, P, reverse P and dual J configuration with passive tone. No need for parallel/series switching inside each J. However I have no clue how to wire it. What kind of switches, vol-tone or vol-vol-tone? Wiring gurus please help!
 
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Coils are like this. Red and white are hot, black and green are ground of the coils.
 
I'm making a twin jazz pickup out of a set of Dimarzio J. Two split coil J pickups glued together.
I'm planning to have single J, P, reverse P and dual J configuration with passive tone. No need for parallel/series switching inside each J. However I have no clue how to wire it. What kind of switches, vol-tone or vol-vol-tone? Wiring gurus please help!
I would not expect a massive tone difference between inline and staggered split coils, reverse or not... Do you have reasons to think otherwise?
Do you know where those 2 pickups will be positioned relative to the bridge ?
I believe there are ways to achieve more tonal variety with this dual split J setup :thumbsup: But it's OK if you really want that single J / dual J / P / reverse P thing, someone here will certainly be able to help either way !
 
I've made a three coil MM in the past and that had clearly audible difference between different wiring. I suppose dual J and P will also have an audible difference. Pickup will be in MM position. I'm going to test different wirings and then make the final wiring with the coil variations I like.