Wilkinson Musicman Pickup Wiring Diagram

[tumbaobab]

At this point a photo of the cavity is required

 

[miltong565]

aw feck! i have worked so much at it, it is just plain messy! (also i dont know how to uploads photos here :/ so much for my ICT qualifications)

....i'll try. going try one more combination. i have a feeling the pickup isnt coil tapped.

 

[miltong565]

got it sorted! it defo isnt coil tapped. green+white go to pot casing. black and red go onto middle prong. all on the same pot. well thats disappointing

 

[SGD Lutherie]

got it sorted! it defo isnt coil tapped. green+white go to pot casing. black and red go onto middle prong. all on the same pot. well thats disappointing

That's wiring the two coils in parallel.

 

[miltong565]

well i dunno, its working anyway. how muchmore faffing around will it require to wire it in series?

 

[SGD Lutherie]

well i dunno, its working anyway. how muchmore faffing around will it require to wire it in series?

The post above says that red and white connect together, yellow is hot and the thick black is ground.

Parallel is how a real Stingray's pickup is wired, and will give a brighter tone. Series will be thicker and louder.

 

[miltong565]

i should actually try series though, because im not happy with the tone. i dont have a yellow wire. they are black, red, white and green. the white and green came joined together. the red was loose, and the black is stupidly short.

maybe all parts should up their game and realise not everyone who buys a pickup from them is a trained electronic engineer.

 

[SGD Lutherie]

i should actually try series though, because im not happy with the tone. i dont have a yellow wire. they are black, red, white and green. the white and green came joined together. the red was loose, and the black is stupidly short.

maybe all parts should up their game and realise not everyone who buys a pickup from them is a trained electronic engineer.

If the white and green were connected together, than that's the series link. You might be running it in single coil mode.

I'd connect red to hot and black to ground. You have to add some wire to the black. Just twist a longer piece of wire on it and solder it and tape it up.

 

[miltong565]

by hot you mean live, yes? then green+ white to where?

 

[SGD Lutherie]

by hot you mean live, yes? then green+ white to where?

Just leave green and white connected together, and tape up that joint.

Hot is the (+) signal, so yes that's live.

 

[miltong565]

cheers buddy! its after midnight here, so ill have to squeeze it in tomorow sometime after work and lessons and what not! (i hate tuesdays!)

 

[miltong565]

well friends, as i said, i had my pickup wired with the white and grren to pot casing, and red and black to the middle prong. i grabbed my bass when i got home from work and headed straight out to my lesson. what an embarrasment. the bass buzzed quite alot, and playing wasnt that clear through the amp, and very quiet. the buzzing didnt stop when i touched the strings (not earthed?) and eventually my teacher took the bass off me and told me to play his. if you laughed, you are off the christmas card list.

 

[miltong565]

guys, please help me because im total electronics noob. can someone just explain to me, the green and white wires that came soldered together, is one north coil hot and south coil ground (or vice versa)? then red the hot for one coil and black the ground for the other?

 

[scootron]

Wow, now I'm in this bramble bush.

Replacing the MM-style pickup in my son's OLP with a Wilkinson MM-style. Wires are Black, Yellow, Red and White. The black wire is shielded. Pots are V-V-T.

Two of the wired were soldered together when I got it, but I separated them, because the Seymour Duncan sheet said to solder the yellow, white and "bare" wires to the case of the first pot. So, I stripped back the shielding from the black wire, and soldered it to the case along with the white and yellow.

Then, I wired the black wire (minus shielding) to the middle lug of the first pot and the red wire to the middle lug of the second pot.

(It should be mentioned here that when I ran a meter on the various wires, I got the following readings: red/black = 7.23 ohms, white/yellow = 7.50 ohms.)

Nothing worked. The first pot controlled volume pretty well, until you get to about 10:00 o'clock, when it goes silent. Second volume controls all the volume, and the tone doesn't work right either.

I figured that I should unhook the bare wire from the first pot, but that didn't help.

I put a string on it, and the tone was great. It was also quiet as a mouse. It just doesn't control correctly.

Somewhere above it says solder the white and yellow to the case of the pot, and then refers to the red and black as the "hot" leads. Where do they go? One to each of the middle lugs of the V pots? What about the shielding on the black wire?

Any help will be appreciated. Great help will be rewarded.

 

[garyreal]

I just configured my Stingray copy on a V V T configuration:

Photo below:

I followed the diagram Schematics from here:

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Works just fine.

 

[scootron]

I just configured my Stingray copy on a V V T configuration:

Photo below:

I followed the diagram Schematics from here:

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Works just fine.

Thanks very much.

I lose resolution when I try to enlarge your photo, so I cannot see if you have run a "bare" wire to the top volume pot.

I have the same SD diagram, but it didn't work for me. I can see where you ran the red and black (each to a middle lug of a volume pot), but I can't tell whether you have only two leads run to the top pot casing, or whether you also have a "bare" wire as the SD diagram says. In other words, did you pull the shielding off the black wire and use it as a third lead to the top pot?

Thanks.

 

[garyreal]

Hi,

My MM Pickups have 5 wires, 1 red, 1 green, 1 white, 1 black and 1 bare (braided) wire.

The Black and the red goes to the middle lugs of the volume pots, while the bare, white and green (i believe yours is should be the yellow wire) goes to the top/back of the volume pot where the black wire is connected.

BTW, if you are seeing only 4 leads, this means your pick-ups is meant to be used with an onboard pre-amp and configuration would be Volume-Treble-Bass.

HTH.

Gary

 

[scootron]

Hi,

My MM Pickups have 5 wires, 1 red, 1 green, 1 white, 1 black and 1 bare (braided) wire.

The Black and the red goes to the middle lugs of the volume pots, while the bare, white and green (i believe yours is should be the yellow wire) goes to the top/back of the volume pot where the black wire is connected.

BTW, if you are seeing only 4 leads, this means your pick-ups is meant to be used with an onboard pre-amp and configuration would be Volume-Treble-Bass.

HTH.

Gary

Gary,

Thanks, that helps a lot. My pup only had four leads, but the black lead was shielded, so I assume that is the "bare" wire.

I'll get everything squared away as you describe, then check all my other connections. Maybe that will fix everything.

I'll post the results, just in case you are interested.

Lucky

 

[garyreal]

Gary,

Thanks, that helps a lot. My pup only had four leads, but the black lead was shielded, so I assume that is the "bare" wire.

I'll get everything squared away as you describe, then check all my other connections. Maybe that will fix everything.

I'll post the results, just in case you are interested.

Lucky

Yes, update me with the results, would be happy to hear from you that everything finally worked out.

I'm doing the installation of active system for my Stingray Copy this weekend. then it will be a Vol-Treb-Bass config. looking for a 50K-250K push pull pot so i can make an active passive switch but could not find any out there.

 

[FRY2144]

Hi new member here i got got the same pup & i got a note in mine it says
Wiring colours
Black-earth/ground
yellow-live
red & white - coil tap (joined together taped & ignored if not required)
my olp bass is v.t.t how would you wire this & can someone tell me about the coil tap thanks for any help