Jimmy Page Humbucker Wiring
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Jimmy page humbucker wiring. One push pull switch for each humbucker to select single coil or humbucker mode one push pull switch to combine the neck and bridge pickups in series or parallel and one to select reverse phase. Here is the control layout when the pots are pulled up. This drawing shows a pair of four wire humbuckers using seymour duncan color code but as i said it could be done with three wire humbuckers hot ground and coil shunt. Joined aug 17 2017 messages 413 reaction score 539.
Start date sep 13 2017. 2 humbuckers 3 way toggle switch two volumes and two tone controls. But again it s not limited to a les paul. I chose an alumitone humbucker for the neck and a deathbucker for the bridge.
This wiring mod popularized by the great jimmy page gives your les paul or sg style guitar a multitude of new tones not available with the stock wiring including the normal 3 way humbucker switching strat like single coil tones out of phase tones and the huge sounding broadbucker tone. Without wanting to damage his beloved guitar jimmy employed a master electronics technician. Guitar wiring diagrams for tons of different setups. 50 videos play all mix jimmy page 50 s style wiring diagram on my epiphone youtube whole lotta humbuckers with jimmy page wiring explained on my epiphone les paul duration.
At first my intention was to use a 4pin jst connector top center on the above. Here is a link on amazon to purchase the covered version of these pickups. It s a complex and super flexible wiring scheme for guitars equipped with a pair of 4 conductor humbuckers that are each connected to a set of volume and tone controls. In the early 1980s jimmy page decided to make his 59 les paul an even more versatile instrument and explore the full range of what the two humbuckers had to offer.
Working with the technician page designed a switching system for coil splitting series parallel and phase reverse options. Bridge volume split bridge neck volume split neck. Jimmy page wiring with lace alumitone pickups. Guitar wiring diagram with the switching options of the jimmy page les paul.
With jimmy page harness you will get the ability to split humbuckers into single coils as well as phase reversal and have the humbuckers is series parallel. This has become a famous les paul mod and in this context it s widely known as the jimmy page wiring.