Gus G neck Blackout and regular bridge blackout combined!

[Alan Elias]

Hello, I contacted you guys trough facebook and you led me here. Thanks!

I have a gus g guitar with a Duncan distortion and a 59. I also have the gus g fire blackouts and the regular blackouts. I really like the bridge pickup for the regular blackout and really love the gus g fire blackout for the neck. I asked on facebook if it was possible to combine the two and you said it was possible.

I tried many wiring combinations and simply cannot get the two pickups wired together.

Is there a diagram for this? I would really appreciate it! I really like those two pickups and would like to have them in one guitar. plus it would look super awesome. one passive looking pickup with an active pickup!

please let me know how to wire them together!! a diagram would be killer!!!


Thanks a lot Duncan Team !!!

 

[Scott Miller]

Re: Gus G neck Blackout and regular bridge blackout combined!

What is the control setup on that guitar. How volumes, tone, and what type of selector switch?

 

[allstarrme]

Re: Gus G neck Blackout and regular bridge blackout combined!

is this a single volume version? its pretty simple really,

Run the 2 battery reds to the battery connector, the battery negative to the ring terminal on a stereo output jack.

The neck Gus G runs the 5 pickup wires into the BMP. Whichever side you put the pickup on runs its output to one side of the 3 way switch. Run the blackout bridge white wire to the other side of the 3 way switch. The center of the 3 way runs back to the pot signal in on the BMP.

The pot signal out goes to the tip of the stereo jack. The bare ground from the blackout bridge goes to the BMP ground. The 3 way switch and bridge ground go to a BMP ground. A ground wire out from the BMP to the sleeve on the output jack and completes the circuit.

The coil tap is left out, unless you wanted to wire it up as a kill switch or add a booster like a PA-2 in there. I would draw it out but my scanner is broke and my only program to do so is paint.

I personally like the blackout metal bridge the best, but the livewires 2 neck is pretty nice for cleaner tones. I also have a Gus G setup in another guitar, its really good but the bridge isn't quite there. Maybe a double thick ceramic mag will help it though.