SD hot rodded with coil splitting/parallel

[J.P. Tosxa]

Hi everyone! First of all, thanks again for all your help on my previous posts. I finally received the pickups this morning and got them installed, but I’ve run into a couple of issues.

The guitar is this Ibanez AR420:

AR420 | AR | ELECTRIC GUITARS | PRODUCTS | Ibanez guitars

AR420 at Ibanez. Ibanez offers electric guitars, bass guitars, acoustic guitars, effect and pedals, amps, plus guitar accessories like tuners, straps and picks.

www.ibanez.com

I installed a set of Seymour Duncan Hot Rodded pickups.

As you can see, this guitar has a tri‑sound switch for each pickup (standard / coil split / parallel). In standard mode the pickups sound amazing — I’m really happy with that part. But when I switch to coil‑split mode, I can’t hear any noticeable difference. And when I switch to parallel, the output becomes extremely quiet.

For what it’s worth, the stock pickups used the exact same wire colors.

Could you please let me know if these pickups are compatible with these switching options, or if I might have wired something incorrectly?

Thanks in advance!

 

[jeremy]

your new duncans have the same four color wires, but the connections are not the same as an ibanez pup.

duncan is black - north start, white - north finish, red - south finish, green - south start
i believe, ibanez is red - north start, black - north finish, white - south finish, green/blue - south start

what schematic did you follow?

 

[J.P. Tosxa]

your new duncans have the same four color wires, but the connections are not the same as an ibanez pup.

duncan is black - north start, white - north finish, red - south finish, green - south start
i believe, ibanez is red - north start, black - north finish, white - south finish, green/blue - south start

what schematic did you follow?

I followed just the colors as they were connected on the original ones.

 

[jeremy]

ah... that would be the issue. it would be nice if there was some kinda of universal color code agreement, but thatll never happen.

if you have dpdt on/on/on switches, this should give you some guidance. the push/pulls are just dpdt switches attached to a pot.

2H_3G_2VppSP_2T.pdf

 

[J.P. Tosxa]

Well with the info you gave me I was able to figure it out what goes where lol.

It seems it is working fine now and if not I will post an update, thanks for your help @jeremy this was extremely helpful.

 

[Artie]

Hope it's all sorted out. Sweet axe!

 

[jeremy]

glad you got it worked out!