Seymour Duncans - What's in the package, what do you need?

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ESPJB59JAZZ

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Do you need more than what comes in the package to install?

I bought a guitar with EMG's, am I going to need new pots and caps? anything else?

and what are the best pots and caps to use with seymours?

I'm going to get a JB/59 combo by the way...
 
Re: Seymour Duncans - What's in the package, what do you need?

You'll need new pots and caps (500K and .022 uF would be standard values). Might as well just replace everything, keeping your stock wiring harness together and bone stock. It will make a re-installation easier for you, and it maintains as much integrity of the guitar's originality as possible when doing parts swaps.
 
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Yeah keep the stock pickups too. If you decide to sell the guitar later, you can put the EMG's back in and keep the SD's for your next guitar.

Everything else is just as Itsabass said.
 
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ItsaBass said:
You'll need new pots and caps (500K and .022 uF would be standard values). Might as well just replace everything, keeping your stock wiring harness together and bone stock. It will make a re-installation easier for you, and it maintains as much integrity of the guitar's originality as possible when doing parts swaps.
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thanks for the replies guys. its a zakk wylde custom bullseye, yes I got lucky. I actually love the emgs but im all about duncans...

which pots and caps do you recommend? bumble bee's perhaps?

and honestly, what is stock wiring harness and bone stock?

sorry I know nothing about installing pickups. im new.
 
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ESPJB59JAZZ said:
thanks for the replies guys. its a zakk wylde custom bullseye, yes I got lucky. I actually love the emgs but im all about duncans...

which pots and caps do you recommend? bumble bee's perhaps?

and honestly, what is stock wiring harness and bone stock?

sorry I know nothing about installing pickups. im new.
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I've always had great results with Orange Drop caps, there's no need to spend more than $2 a cap IMO.

By keeping the wiring harness bone stock, they just mean to pull everything out without changing the wiring job. Only unsolder the pickups if you have to (depending on the vintage of your guitar, it may or may not have the EMG Quik connect system) and keep it so that should you have to sell the guitar later, you can return the guitar to the exact same condition it was in when it left the factory.
 
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Being a ZW, it should have the Quick Connect system, so yeah, just unplug the pickups, desolder the quick connect wires from the pots/switch (can't get the plug through the channel), remove the stereo jack from the mounting plate, and then remove the pots from the guitar, leaving them all wired together. Keep the 3-way switch and replace the pots and jack.

Put the pickups and pots and related wires in a box somewhere either for future use or to sell as a complete LP kit.
 
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DrNewcenstein said:
Being a ZW, it should have the Quick Connect system, so yeah, just unplug the pickups, desolder the quick connect wires from the pots/switch (can't get the plug through the channel), remove the stereo jack from the mounting plate, and then remove the pots from the guitar, leaving them all wired together. Keep the 3-way switch and replace the pots and jack.

Put the pickups and pots and related wires in a box somewhere either for future use or to sell as a complete LP kit.
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You can use the same jack. It's possible to get the plugs through one at a time. I did it with a different guitar. I really had no problems at all.
 
Re: Seymour Duncans - What's in the package, what do you need?

You're probably going to need some hookup wire too and I'm not sure if EMG's have their own 3-way toggle but you could get one just in case.
 
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EMGs don't generally come with their own pickup switch. That's the one component they can share with passives just fine.

And I strongly recommend removing the stereo jack and letting it stay with the EMG harness. If you decide to sell the EMG rig as a complete set, including the jack may keep the buyer from throwing a brick through your front window :lol:

If it's cheap and easy enough for the new owner to waddle down to Radio Shack for a stereo jack, it's cheap and easy enough for you to waddle down to Radio Shack and buy a mono jack.
 
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