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Posted by: HiimAlex Jun 3 2016, 07:30 PM

Hey!

I received my Seymour Duncan Sh-2n Jazz and Sh-4 JB today to my Jackson and when I was going to install them I became unsure since this is the first time changing pickups. The thing that made me unsure was that I was looking at this Wiring Diagram http://www.seymourduncan.com/wiring-diagrams?meta_params=guitar-options,2-pickups,neck-h,bridge-h,1-volume,1-tone,3-way-blade there was some differences compared to how the standard pickups were wired. So I wonder should I either wire the new pickups according how the old pickups were wired or should I wire them according to the Wiring Diagram?

Cheers

Posted by: Mertay Jun 3 2016, 07:38 PM

Not very experienced with this but on the upper menu I also saw this if it helps; https://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seymourduncan.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F05%2F2H_3B_1V_1T.pdf

Posted by: HiimAlex Jun 3 2016, 09:23 PM

Thanks Mertay, I just watched this video which cleared up things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rk9ZEJsUdg and since I only would be swapping pickups they said it is best to do same connections

Posted by: Mertay Jun 3 2016, 09:31 PM

Cool, I suck so bad with the soldering (lack patience ) iron always left it to the luthier let me know how your new PU's sound, specially the jazz

Posted by: HiimAlex Jun 5 2016, 12:47 PM

Haha I did quite a lot of soldering in school and I remembered it quite well, just little rusty in the beginning
However the new pickups made a huge difference compared to the stock PU's. I definitely like the versatility of them and the jazz has a lot of sustain, brightness and clarity