Carvin to Seymour Duncan wiring help please

[FPFL]

Greetings,

I know some folks here have done this swap, but I've found confusing some times contradictory info on the Net. I'm searching this and the Carvin forum like mad...

Could someone give me the rosetta stone for Carvin to SD for my lovely SH-11's sake!

1,000 thanks!

Paul

 

[Zhangliqun]

Re: Carvin to Seymour Duncan wiring help please

What are you trying to do exactly? Are you replacing a Duncan pickup with a Carvin?

 

[FPFL]

Re: Carvin to Seymour Duncan wiring help please

No, the reverse.

Pulling a stock Carvin to put in a new SH-11.
I find tons of wiring rosetta stones on the web to explain wiring color, so when you wire in brand x to replace brand y you put the green where the black was etc...

 

[Zhangliqun]

Re: Carvin to Seymour Duncan wiring help please

You only need to know how Duncan's wire color code works, and Duncan pickups come with wiring schemes in the box. If you're not doing coil splitting, it's as simple as soldering red and white together and taping it off, then soldering black to wherever the hot lead on the Carvin was wired and green to ground (solder to back of pot).

 

[FPFL]

Re: Carvin to Seymour Duncan wiring help please

Thanks, I didn't realize there was a diagram under the foam.
Two things -

I am doing coil splitting.

I think I have a better idea, but I'd still love to hear from someone who has done this already.

The base plates don't match nicely either. They don't make it easy to swap out do they?

-P

 

[Sykes]

Re: Carvin to Seymour Duncan wiring help please

They don't make it easy to swap out do they?

-P

Carvin is real bad about that. As you have noticed, the Carvin pickups have three height adjust screws, one top, two bottom. I had to drill a hole in the middle of the bottom pickup mounting ring to make it work with the Duncan, any other pickup for that matter. I need to find some flat two hole mounting rings.
I would suggest getting new pots and rewiring the whole thing.

Good luck!

What model Carvin and options?

 

[FPFL]

Re: Carvin to Seymour Duncan wiring help please

Sykes,

I've got a CT4M - birdseye maple neck, SS frets, stock pups (strident in the highs) with a lighter blue finish. It plays like a dream , sustains wonderfully and sites just right on me. I love it like nothing else - except for the pups.

So you redid all the pots and wiring? Wow! Thats a little beyond me at this point. Did you change any of the vaules from before on anything? I've heard different things about Carvins and the other electronic pieces. The worksmanship inside mine in nice and neat so I'm incline to leave it and simply bridge the new pickup in by splicing the wire rather than resoldering - its pretty tight in there and I'm a noob at that stuff.

-P

 

[Zhangliqun]

Re: Carvin to Seymour Duncan wiring help please

The 3 height adjust screws are a great idea for preventing the pickup from rocking back and forth. I'm surprised it hasn't caught on or DiMarzio hasn't patented or trademarked it yet.

Anyway, it shouldn't be a problem if you just buy a regular 2-screw pickup ring.