3 Duncan Seymour Humbucker P/U Wiring

[ericsmith1172]

Does anyone have the wiring schematic for 3 Duncan Seymour Humbuckers, 1 Vol Control, 1 Tone Control, and a 5 Way Switch?

I reviewed the one online for 2 Duncan Seymour Humbuckers, 1 Vol Control, 1 Tone Control, and a 5 Way Switch, but, adding the 3rd (Center) is a little confusing, and I want to make sure I am doing it correctly.

I want (B-BC-C-CN-N)
(Bridge-Bridge Center-Center-Center Neck-Neck)

 

[Artie]

Re: 3 Duncan Seymour Humbucker P/U Wiring

Hey Eric; welcome to the forum.

Basically, you do it just like this:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/website/support/schematics/S_3singles1vol1tone1switch.html

Which is standard Strat wiring. The only difference is, you use black for hot, and green for ground.

Also, if your pups are 4-conductor, connect red and white together, and tape them up so they don't touch anything.

Artie

Edit: Almost forgot, if you have a "bare" wire, thats the shield. Connect it to ground along with the green wire.

 

[ericsmith1172]

Re: 3 Duncan Seymour Humbucker P/U Wiring

Thank you.

I was a little nervous about trying something that I wasn't 100% sure of. I was planning on getting a little funky with the wiring later - was going to hook up an additional 3 way switch that will allow me to bypass the 5 way switch and turn on all 3 humbuckers at the same time, as well as hook up a 9 Volt Battery, to cut down on the background distortion. PLus I had other plans, but, I have to take it one step at a time.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: 3 Duncan Seymour Humbucker P/U Wiring

I'd wire it as Artie suggests. Just like a Strat.

But I'd use 500K pots for the volume and tone and a .02 cap.

I'd go: master volume, master tone and a Blender pot to combine the bridge and neck pickups.

Or go with a Schaller Mega Switch:

1. neck
2. neck and middle
3. neck & bridge
4. middle and bridge
5. bridge

If you want coil splitting, I'd do it with push/pull pots.

Or you could go custom and have a master volume, master tone, Schaller Mega Swith for the five way and then three little mini on/on/on switches between the volume and tone controls to change each pickup to: series/single/parallel.

THAT would be one extremely versatile ax!

 

[Artie]

Re: 3 Duncan Seymour Humbucker P/U Wiring

. . . as well as hook up a 9 Volt Battery, to cut down on the background distortion.

Eric; I'm very intrigued by what you meant by this. What did you mean? :laugh2:

btw - Lew's suggestion of using the blender pot solves the "all 3 pups at once" problem.

 

[ericsmith1172]

Re: 3 Duncan Seymour Humbucker P/U Wiring

IN the past when I have worked with factory installed pick-ups, I'ver gotten a background hum or slight distortion. I've added a bypass to go through a 9-Volt battery which fixed the problem. I have an Ibanez, which, currently has 2 humbuckers and a single coil, 5 way switch, 1 Vol and 1 Tone. I don't have a place to routher out in the back to put a 9-Volt on this one. The body is too thin. Usually the background hum or distortion is due to a grounding issue.

 

[Artie]

Re: 3 Duncan Seymour Humbucker P/U Wiring

Hmmm . . . I still don't understand what you're doing with the 9-volt. Are you saying that you're putting it in series or parallel with the pup, thus, placing a DC voltage shift to your guitars output?