Mapping A Humbucker Guitar Pickup

This video will help you to identify the wires coming out of a humbucker pickup as well as the polarity of the pole pieces.

[RaymondLandis]

Hey Chris, this was an amazing video. Your patience and thoroughness is greatly appreciated. I learned so much from this one! You're definitely one of the best on YouTube doing this stuff. May you be blessed and able to do many more of these! Thank you so much!

[braksandwich]

Great video, this helped me swap some pickups on a set that had absolutely baffling wire colors

[sergioavila]

Awesome, thanks for explaining that! very didatic and well explained!

The most important instructional video on the net today.

[swissanthony]

I’ve been tentatively researching this subject and I’m finally getting my head around it all. This video has really helped me confirm what I’ve learned. Thank you Sir 👏👏👏👏👏

[Helllllllsing]

My first test created a hum generator instead of hum cancelling.
This video makes it easier for my next time.

[chrisudell]

One tip. When performing the polarity test, set the multimeter reading to 20v. MUCH more consistent.

[rutiger]

VERY GOOD DEMONSTRATION! THANKS for going through the tools and explaining how they work, how to use them. A good "tools 101" video.

[Teddy-Cool]

hi, nice video! one thing about polarity: i recommend an analogue meter (is much slower)

[oooppiikkk]

so thats why my bridge humbuckers just buzz like hell. THANK YOU!!

[jesusgerada]

Very well explained. For hum cancelling you have to repeat the process for the two pickups and the correct wiring is parallel electrically with opposite magnet polarity.

[NaudioElectronics]

Great Video Chris! I'm happy that you are using it.
Best Regards

[Tzuau]

Good vid… I wish I had this earlier😅 So clear and easy to follow. 👍🏻

[daleagner]

I've purchased the parts I need to add coil spits to a firefly guitar. Can you tell me which of the single coils in the pair should be active once split? The inner coils, outer coils or perhaps one inner and one outer?

[williamerlewein]

I hope I'm not doing this the wrong way but I'm an old guy this is as close as I can find. I'm just a guy who plays around with guitars and I have a general question. I have a Kramer 450g aluminum neck that I've had since the early 80s. Foolishly I installed a set of DiMarzio super Distortion in it back then and lost the original pickups. Since getting sick and retiring I have been playing around with some guitars I've modified some cheap ones purely for my own entertainment. With some success. I successfully transformed a glary into a pretty nice guitar having replaced everything but the body and the neck. I have some parts ordered a Les Paul bolt-on neck and body and I'm thinking about putting the DiMarzio in it. I ordered a set of Gretsch pickups with the very nice Chrome surrounds and I think they would match up nice on the Kramer as kind of matching in class. I suffer from neuropathy so I can barely play anymore not that I was Eddie Van Halen to begin with but my playing is very limited this is just a hobby for me now. I know the DiMarzio are probably a bit of the Holy Grail twosome because of their vintage. Just looking for an opinion thanks and God bless

[zAvAvAz]

Important pickup readings are = Resistance Kohms. Millivolts. Inductance. top three to name a few.

[johnnygreenway]

I'm trying to mod a Donner dlp124 guitar with new humbuckers and one volume push pull potentiometer and one tone push pull potentiometer. I want to coil split these separately. I have a three way toggle switch. I've looked at the wiring diagram on Seymour Duncans site, so I would appreciate any help you could give me. Thanks.

[janrichescabungcal]

What color of the wire soldered 2 wires?

[zeffneeson]

Very valuable Thankyou for your time 👊🏻

[TheVigiIante]

Ok, but for hum cancellation, how should I connect the wires? Position from coil 1 with positive from coil 2? And which should be connected to the ground, the positive or the negative?