Wiring dimarzio and Seymour Duncan

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luca.cossu.10

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Hello community, I'm new to building guitars, I have a telecaster body and I'm gonna put an hot rail to the neck and a dimarzio crunchlab on the bridge, I tried many Seymour Duncan before and wanted to try a dimarzio this time, but I find out that the 2 pickups gets out of phase with each others. What does it mean and does anyone have a diagram on how to wire the 2 different pickups?
Thank you so much for the help![emoji106] [emoji106]
 
Re: Wiring dimarzio and Seymour Duncan

Use Dimarzio's wiring code for the Crunchlab and Duncan's code for the Hot Rail. When wired correctly to each's code, they should be in phase.
 
Re: Wiring dimarzio and Seymour Duncan

When I put my DiMarzio in, the wiring instructions said if it was out of phase with another pickup, just reverse the hot and ground leads. I got it wrong the first time and cured the issue by switching the wires.
 
Re: Wiring dimarzio and Seymour Duncan

rgand said:
When I put my DiMarzio in, the wiring instructions said if it was out of phase with another pickup, just reverse the hot and ground leads. I got it wrong the first time and cured the issue by switching the wires.
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Which is no problem if you get at the electronics from the back or with the separate tele control cavity. With a strat or any other pickup guitar it can be a PITA as you have to loosen (or even remove) the strings and unscrew the pickguard. Here is where a multimeter comes in handy to test the phase before assembly:

Step 1: Put a guitar cord into the guitar's output jack.
Step 2: Put the red probe on the multimeter to the tip of the cord plug and the black probe to the shaft. Set the meter to DC resistance in the 20k range.
Step 3: Set the pickup selector to bridge and put a ferrous item (like a screwdriver or plier) on top of the bridge pickup. Now remove the item quickly and watch the meter - did it go up or down in value (if digital) or did the needle go left or right?
Step 4: Set the pickup selector to neck and do the same - again watch where the meter goes.

If the meter went in the same direction the pickups are in phase, if different they are out of phase so the wires on one pickup need to be swapped.
 
Re: Wiring dimarzio and Seymour Duncan

Swissmountain, you mean now that I have perfected removing and replacing the neck on my guitar, it's all a needless skill? LOL.

I will remember to check this way next time I change a pickup. Thanks for the tip.
 
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rgand said:
Swissmountain, you mean now that I have perfected removing and replacing the neck on my guitar, it's all a needless skill?
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For the only purpose of checking pickup phasing, yes. Otherwise, no - on some guitars you need to remove and replace the neck to make trussrod adjustments :)
 
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swissmountain said:
For the only purpose of checking pickup phasing, yes. Otherwise, no - on some guitars you need to remove and replace the neck to make trussrod adjustments :)
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Yeah, my Tele is like that. The new neck I ordered for my Strat will have the side adjustment at the heel. Looking forward to trying that.

Again, thanks for the tip on checking phasing.
 
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