Wiring Question

adriaband

Just bought a SD JB Jr. for my Jaguar and have it wired up like so:

red & white wire from JB going to jag yellow wire

black and green wire from JB going to jag black wire.

does this seem right? I only know how to play the thing and don't know how to wire it. also, am I supposed to tear out the old wires and actually resolder everything or can i just splice and connect them?

robertoriginal

splice and connect, i don;t know about anything else.

try and figure out which one is negative and positive. tint the wires and solder them together, use some rubber tubing to make it official.

that is all

peace

adriaband

so after I twist the wires together I solder them and then tape it up?

sorry for my rudimentary skills. I just don't want to pay some clown a bunch of money to do something I can figure out with a little help

Pedro

I would check out the seymour duncan website and check their wiring diagrams - the way you suggest sounds wrong to me mate! I think for straight humbucking you want to solder or twist white and red together and then tape round and ignore them, then send the black to the live and the green to earth. But check out http://www.seymourduncan.com/ before you do anything!

Aug

right...red and white go together and connect to nothing, green goes to ground and black goes to the lead.

adriaband

someone said:
right...red and white go together and connect to nothing, green goes to ground and black goes to the lead.

so that is the only way I can get a full humbucker sound out of it? or can I still run it through the bridge treble/ parallel/ whatever they're called switches?

I've read a couple things on here saying the pickup had that "quack" sound like a strat with its selector in an in between position when people ran it through the switches

apologies for the amount of questions, just want to find out what I can while the jag is all apart

adriaband

update- got it wired up as suggested above. sounds really good. I still sounds very jaguar-esque to me but with more nuts (?)

well worth it for anyone considering a Jb jr.