How to test your electric guitar pickups without strings | Guitar Tech
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2015
- Sometimes when you are working on your pickups you want to make sure they are working correctly before putting your strings back on. In this video I will show you my method for testing your electric guitar pickups so you can be confident they are working. Be sure to subscribe and click the bell so you will be notified of all future videos.
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This is awesome and totally worked for me. Thanks for sharing
What guitar were you doing this on?
Worked for me thanks!
Great to hear!
plug a gtr cable into input jack - use a multi tester set at 20 ohms range - turn vol + tone on full clockwise
- each setting on 5 way will give a diff reading although some will be similar - single coil settings read highest - single coil combo's or pairs are humbucking in a strat and read 1/2 the ohms - in a Tele they are in series so I'm not sure of reading - you could do that in a store if you needed to know and staff didn't object
That's a cool way of doing it especially if you are splitting coils and more advanced wiring.
Man I appreciate this video! Bought an old Japanese display guitar with no strings and want to test the pickups/hardware before throwing strings on there
Cool. Let me know how the guitar turns out.
@JesterGP3 Soo...? How it turn out you kept us waiting
Can you connect the guitar to the amp with the pick guard upside down with the electronics part visible in order to make new connections or rectify something wrong with no electric shock risk if you touch some part? I answer becouse I usually mount the strings, electronics etc and have to mount/desmount all the time and wast too much time and effort...
Wire it up, check it twice and then use the method in this video to check each pickup configuration. How often do you mod your guitar?
ty bro
Your welcome. I have some "guitar tech" videos coming out soon. Should be fun.
maybe this is a dumb question, but they are only magnetic when the select pickup is on ? he was just tapping them with the screwdriver it didnt seem like they were magnetic to
Eric Riley you should hear a thump when you touch the screwdriver to the engaged pickup.
Can someone turn me in the right direction on my problem. I always tap on my pickups when I change or rewire. My problem is that I tap on each pole separately and they all sound even, but yet 2 poles are not as loud as the others. Anybody ever have this problem? Thanks
bwyou812 it’s my understanding that some pickups have a vintage setup where the lower output poles should be toward the thicker strings and doesn’t have as much magnetic pull.
Does this work with hotrail a too? I'm afraid to tap it since I just bought it lol
You can do this with any pickup since it is magnetic. You wont hurt your hotrail at all.
Lol cool thank you. Cuz I just bought my first electric an SSS strat but I wanted to make it a little beefier so I had the hot rail installed in the bridge (later I'll probably get the other two changed to a cool rail and vintage maybe) but after I got it out of the shop I dont know what the guitar tech did cuz now it all sounds the same when I'm in the neck middle or bridge position. So 1-3 sound the same and so does the 2-4 position lol.
So I want to go through and see which position my hot rail Is in and so on.
+Daniel Malone that does sound odd. Keep learning the ins and outs and do it yourself next time. Its easy to do and will save you some money.
Yea I'm new to electric but acoustic I'm not haha. But I left my foot pedals and amp settings the exact same and was expecting when I got home to have some killer distortion and honestly it sounds kinda the same as the original single strat coil (mim roadhouse strat before the s1 switching) but a little more treble. Which honestly I love playing nirvana and kurts highs was high (no pun intended) and bass was low but it's weird cuz I thought it would have way more crunch than stock coils and I thought the positions would sound diff
I remember my guitar mentor putting up the speaker of his phone and played music through the pickups to the amp
that sounds like a cool trick.
So for hotrails just tap anywhere?
Yeah pretty much
It´s really strange the order to select the pickups....jejejjeje
its not that strange.
yeah..i think..cause isn´t the ordinary way to wiring the picks.. by the way... every one can set it like his owns ways
+JOSERAMI29 my next mod is to make the tone knob into a blend knob so I can have a conventional 5 way configuration and blend the bridge into the neck or the neck into the bridge.
@@DoctorMcFarlandStudios I wanna try that too
can I do that with strings on also?
sure can
Also the safer way you can just use a television remote controller hover it over the pickup and makes a frequency sound
Is this really a thing??
Interesting :)
how about tone control
Just gotta follow the schematics.
How to know my guitar pickup brand is .......???
sorry I don't know.
Look for a serial or product/manufacturer code. Buy brand name products.
You didn't say a word about what you were hooked to or whatever.
Well if you want to hear something you need to plug into an amp. Makes sense right?
Your brain isn't hooked up or wired correctly.
@DoctorMcFarlandStudios some people need extra help 😂