Wiring Electric Guitar - 1 Pickup 1 Volume 1 Input Jack
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- Опубліковано 31 жов 2012
- axmaxtremolo.com/blog/wiring-e... Alex "Guitar Medic" shows you performance techniques for your soldering iron and demonstrates an Eddie Van Halen - type wiring setup with one pickup, one volume, and one input jack. See the rest of Alex's wiring demonstrations at axmaxtremolo.com/blog/wiring-e...
stop apologizing man this is the greatest video i found to teach me how to wire up my own guitar
(im beginner by the way...)
For sure. What a great idea. Using a mock up demo board instead of a crazy wired guitar.
Teachers have to apologize all the time, students can be cruel...
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10 Years Later:
Still one of the best, clear cut videos!
Thank *insert god of your liking* that it's still on here!
Completely agree!
Agreed
Probably the 5th time in the last few years I've come back here to refresh. I don't do much wiring, and I hate to waste my time when experts like this are on UA-cam. Thanks, again!
Ground wire should connect from the bridge to the back of the volume pot. The ground on the back of the volume pot should connect to the ground on the output jack (the pole that touches the shaft of the cable). The last ground connection is made by bending the pole on the pot to the back of the pot. No wire is required. Solder the pole to the back of the pot and make sure your connections are solid. I hope this answers you question. Good luck and thanks for watching my video.
Is this the case for all guitar set ups? For instance, wiring a humbucker? I’m getting lots of buzz and hissing - clearly a ground issue. Great video by the way.
Can you simply put all the required ground wires onto the last pole that gets bent onto the potentiometer housing ?
One of the best, most informative and clear cut vids i have ever seen. Are you listening to your standing ovation? Greatest teacher you are. Thanks
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3 Guitar repairmen couldn't fix my EVH Frankenstrat.. All I did was watch your video, and ran a razor blade
between the Pot and the Hot input. The granule of solder was soo soo small the naked couldn't see it but it was touching ( causing a horrible noise when strumming or every note played.
It's fixed!!! Thank you for this fine detailed video...
For any tremolo style guitar, the wire is usually soldered to the spring claw that the springs hook up to in the back of the guitar. This will ground your wiring to the tremolo. If it were a fixed bridge such as a Les Paul, there would be a wire coming into the wiring cavity from one of the bridge pieces. Good luck with your project, and thanks for checking out my video.
I'm rewiring my Washburn pro Maverick myself and this video did it for me...thanks bro!
7 years after being made, video is still as relevant as ever. Thank you!
I usually don't comment, but this is probably one of the best explanation videos on guitar wiring.
Suggestion: You should make an updated version with better video quality for those who have a hard time seeing
This was awesome, re-wiring an old guitar as a fun project for myself and couldn't make sense of how to get it all hooked up (previously had 3 pickups, 2 tone and 1 volume). This gives me the confidence to just go buy what I need now!
I have been waiting all my life to get my own EVH set up! Your video was just what I needed to complete my project! Thanks so much for your time!
11 years later still a Great simple explanation.
Man this video is amazing. Simple instructions but he doesn't treat us like we're stupid
Man stop apologizing you’re doing us more than a favor and I’m so grateful you took the time to help us newbie’s
Thanks you so much dude. Building a 5150 tribute and was terrified of doing the electrics but you made it so clear and easy to understand. Brilliant video. Can't thank you enough!
This was just what i needed. You described every step of the way and now i understand what to do . Thanks for taking the time to make this it really helped me out !
This video is fantastic. Exactly what I was looking for. Everything is explained in a way that beginners understand what's going on. Thanks.
Thanks you inspired me to wire mine for the 1st time! This was the most helpful video I could find. Keep up the good work!
I just discovered your channel and this is a fantastic tutorial. Legs 1 and 2 of the pots are interchangeable between hot and output (if there just one volume it doesn’t really matter, whereas if there’s two volumes like in a Les Paul, it makes a big difference)
Thanks very much for taking the time to make these videos. They are very helpful to learn about soldering.
As I had not done any wiring for quite sometime, this helped me a lot. I wish other vids were as simple to follow as this one! Cheers.
Thank you for posting this, It's nice to see a video where you are told why this wire goes to this lug and that wire goes to that lug rather than the usual this goes here this goes there without any explanation as to why. Thanks again, very informative video, much appreciated.
Thanks for the comment and the great info. Always willing to learn new techniques.
Helping my brother wire a Frankenstrat replica. You're a boss, boss!
Great video Buddy! I recently picked up an old Kramer ZX10 from a garage sale and this is exactly what I needed to repair the mess of wiring someone did to it!
Thank you. I watched this and installed a Dimarzio Blaze in one of my ole 7 strings. Great tutorial
Brilliant concise video.Straight to the point and no waffle.l"ll try this on my box guitar tomorrow.
You keep apologizing. This is one of the better straight forward videos I have come across. Well done.
Just gotta say props dude. This helped me so much. I just rebuild an Ibanez Destroyer with a piece of a Fender Strat with the bolt on set up, and finished it off with an ESP Kirk Hammett neck. The Destroyer was broken at the neck. But I put in an EMG H4 for the bridge, no neck pickup. No tone, no switch, just a volume and a pickup. This helped a lot. Thats how my jackson is set up too, but with a Seymour Duncan Dimebucker. But thank you for the video.
thanks for the vid, I make banjo's, im 66, I sit all evening after supper in my recliner, next to my wife of 46 years as she watches tv, I don't like tv, so im playing my electric guitar, with one of those mini amp plugs and listening with headphones, because I can do so without disturbing her, but I need a banjo that I can do the same thing, so the next banjo build will be an electric banjo with one pick up so I can play it in the evening in my recliner, and now I know how to wire it up ! Thanks !
i put off for so long thinking id mess up but finally went and bought a soldering iron and did it myself. thanks alot.
Excellent tutorial. Well done. This will save me time and $$ on my EVH build. Great job!
Thanks for showing this with the simple EVH setup, it's exactly what I was looking for. Cheers man.
Thanks for a first class lesson, I have just updated the wiring on my Gibson LP junior 🙏🏻 works brilliant 🙏🏻
bro this is so helpful to me. I'm building a frankenstrat and I'm at the wiring stage and this is literally exactly what i was looking for
I'll be using this video tomorrow in conjunction with the wiring diagrams that came with my pick-up. With me and thanks for the helpful vid!
Awesome and easy to follow tutorial. This is a huge help. Thanks you!
Inever soldered in my life, and... thanx to u I've fixed my bass last night. BIg Big fat thank you.
Today I found my old jazz archtop pickup wires had come off. This video let me know where to re-solder them. Thank you very much.😃
this is probably the best explanation of a straight wiring I have ever seen
Man Thanks heaps for this vid.It helped me out of a tricky situation with a detatched wire on one of my volume pots. I am a Guitarist who knows nothing about the electronic insides of my Guitar. You explain everything so that even I can understand it. Cheers Mate.
thx man i finaly finished my franenstrat build
how did you wire the guitar?
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!! what i needed. Thank you for the time you took to make this video. Guitar now working with a new volume control. V pleased.
Straight outta the gate: proper soldering iron care. I knew this was gonna be an excellent video 🤌🏽🤌🏽 and it was
Fantastic!! many many thanx..you pulled me out of a right hole!! just finished working on a mini fender style guitar for a friends 3yr olds birthday!! all sorts of problems with the wiring but thanx to you it's sorted! your'e awesome dude!! cheers!! clear well presented vid!! best on youtube you made it easy!!
Great video mate, thanks for taking the time.
I got a problem now with a ground and its nearly got me beat, but will have another go.
Great video. I'm the worlds worse when it comes to this kind of work. Wasn't even going to try it but you made it look so easy. I did my guitar, it worked perfectly. Thanks.
this was my 2nd attempt at start to finish wiring, and i ran into a slight hiccup wiht the grounding, spent about an hour trying to figure it out and couldnt for the life of me get a solid ground connection. Then about 4 minutes into this video i found my problem... i had the wires the wrong way round on the output jack 😐, now it is fixed, thank you very much
Thanks...Needed this vid for rewiring my LP Jr. Nicely done!
Thank you very much for this video - finally got my old bass working!
Hands down best vid on simple soldering. Thnx
I was always told not to blow on a solder joint because it might cause a "Cold" solder joint.
That's true
Brilliant simple video. I like the effort you made of the soldering mock up board. Made it easy to see the whole picture. I like the error you made, gives that human touch, not so 'i'm so perfect approach' Brilliant just subscribed . do not want to miss anything else
Awesome video. Exactly what I was looking for (the VH setup). Thanks so much.
One single humbucker , my favorite and all I need. Cool video 👍
Ive always been so intimidated by the thought of pickup soldering so ive been using emgs because of the somderless system. Ive got this single humbucker strat i wanna do a single Dimarzio D-Activator in tho and I figured this would be a great opportunity to finally learn sonce its only one pickup to get started. This video was crystal clear and im like 100 confident i can do it now so thank you! Its so much more simple than I thought.
Same
Just amazingly simply explained. Very Good. Best regards from Portugal
Brilliant, easy to follow and very constructive too, plug in and go... thanks for this video.
Excellent tutorial. Clear and concise. Thank you.
I appreciate the video, because it is really simple and easy to understand for most people. However, there is no such thing as a guitar "input" jack. There is only an OUTPUT jack. The signal goes OUT from the guitar "IN" to the amp. Also, do not ever blow on your hot solder joints! It will cause cold solder joints and bad connections, even if it does "feel like" a solid connection. There is absolutely no reason to blow on it anyway, as solder hardens very fast, almost as fast as you can blow on it. This being said, I do appreciate you taking your time to share your knowledge, there is a lot to be learned here. Thank you! P.P. Some of that hummm you may be hearing from your guitar is normal if it is single coil, but some of that hummm could be from blowing on your solder joints and creating bad connections or grounding.
You wrote a whole ass paragraph and no one gives a fuck
This was very helpful explaining the basics. Thanks!
Thanks, this was so helpful and now I can finally finish my 5150 replica!
Man it totally worked out! i checked the wiring and like you said the pole on the pot was loose, not well soldered to the back of the pot, so soldered it well and that's it, when i turned down the volume it kills the sound. Thanks a lot for the video and your helpful comments dude. I'll suscribe, have a nice day
Very informative. Made wiring up my strat super easy. 10/10
You are correct. The ground to the bridge on most tremolos is located on the spring claw in the back of the guitar. Make sure you get a good connection with solder and Don't Blow On Your Solder to cool it! Thanks for you question and good luck with your project.
thank you so much for this video. i recently set up a guitar like this but i had a guitar tech install the pickup because i was having it set up anyways. I got the guitar back and the pickup sounds dead. I'm not sure what the problem is but now i feel more confident about opening the guitar up, identifying the problem and trying to correct it. so thanks again!
thank you so much my dad doesnt live with me anymore so now i have to learn everything myself and this helped so much
Dude. This is the best video for a simple pickup wiring on YT. Never done this before but after watching your video I was confident. So I installed a pickup and a potentiometer all by myself for the first time and it works like a charm. Finally. ^^ Unfortunately your not uploading videos anymore. Three pickups and a 5-way-switch? ^^ Anyway. Thx.
This video helped me tremendously. Thank you so much.
Thanks for the question. I have a Basic Wiring DVD that you can purchase at my website if you want to learn more about wiring. It will take you through the wiring you see in this video, adding the tone control, and then adding two pickups with a 3-way switch volume and tone. Capacitors are a great and inexpensive way to change the tone of a guitar. I would recommend Orange Drop caps .047uf or .022uf. The larger the number the more low end is produced through the electronic. Good luck...
It was very kind of you to post this video.i worked in the wood shop at Hamer. i never went near the finishing dept.
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Thanks so much for posting this video no more paying $40-$85 for somebody else to do this when it’s such a simple thing to do to begin with!
That is true. I have been told this a bunch of times since the videos came out. Personally I have never had a problem with connections failing. Knowing what I know now, I can not reccommend blowing on solder anymore. My regret is that I don't have time to reshoot all the videos. Thanks for your comment and helpful information.
Excellent Video Giving my strat a rebirth after this !
This is a great video! I'd love to see you do one for a 5 way super switch and 2 humbuckers. I'm about to try this on my strat but all the videos for super switch wiring are crap
love your vids man its helping me understand so much on how to fix my problem
Thanks! Now to see if you have one with a pickup, volume and tone pot.
Thanks man! just used this one now to wire up EVH Bumble Bee with Dimarzio SS
I absolutely appreciate you showing this. What are your thoughts on pre tinning your wires?
And I didn't notice you using any type of flux,,,that also could be the culprit for popping off?
please keep them going. Very informative...
best tutorial i've seen! thanks. not even a selector switch on this, just basic wiring. what better place to start to learn? thank you!
5:30 Thats what he said
Thanks!
You did good. This video is perfect for students.
You can do this final connection with wire, but I usually just bend the pole over to the back of the pot and solder it directly. If you choose to use wire, the easiest way is to thread the wire through the pole and solder the end of the wire to the back of the pot and then the wire to the pole. I try to keep the number of connections to a minimum to reduce the risk of circuit failure later. Thanks for your question and good luck with your project.
Hey man, all is good. You are not the only one to tell me not to blow on the solder. I will also say you are correct in this information. I learned how to solder by trial and error, until a friend showed me some tricks. I have never had a connection fail by blowing on it. My only regret is that I can't go back and re-shoot the videos. Thanks for the info and letting my viewers in on some good advise. Thanks for looking and thanks for your comment.
Thankyou finally so clear you cant not understand exactly what to do. Thanks man im so glad i found this
What wires should I get for the ground and for the hot (and where to get them?) going from the pot to the output jack?
Hey there! Thank you for explaining the process step by step. I have a question: what if bridge is made of wood? Can we connect the ground to any other metal part instead?
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks. Subbed.
This video really helped me. Thanks!
Thank you for the video. It helped me greatly
Thanks a lot for this video mate, I've got a query hopefully someone can help with,
I have a non-functioning Piezo pickup with a red and black wire coming out, the black wire is disconnected, assuming the back wire is the piezo ground wire, I'll solder it to the back of the appropriate volume knob. Does anyone know if piezo wiring is different in any way? also is the ground lug on a pot always the same one? thanks in advance for any responses, Sam.
So im wiring electric parts on my acoustic (two pickups one volume) and it worked when it was just the switch and jack and now im wiring in the volume and when the ground on the pot isnt connected it functions like a tone knob and when I connect the ground theres no sound. Any suggestions?
Many thanks for the upload, it was my attempt to wire a guitar. after following your instructions I got my SD 59 wired up and it sounds great with no earthing issues. am i right in assuming that the pickup sounds more open?
You are a great teacher. Thank you!
this video is solid gold!!!
What goes into the rightmost spot on the pot? The one he soldered at the end?
How do you strip the ground mesh from the plastic cover in pickup wire?
Thank you for this. I used this same arrangement with a homemade pickup and a get a loud hum out of my amp that goes away when I touch the metal part of my input jack or the metal part of the pot, any solution for that?
how to connect to the socket humbucker electric guitar without volume?
does somebody know what kind of wire he uses for the ground wire and what the white wire is?