Jimmy Page Humbucker Wiring
2 humbuckers 3 way toggle switch two volumes and two tone controls.
Jimmy page humbucker wiring. 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. Start date sep 13 2017. 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. 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.
Here is a link on amazon to purchase the covered version of these pickups. At first my intention was to use a 4pin jst connector top center on the above. Here is the control layout when the pots are pulled up. Without wanting to damage his beloved guitar jimmy employed a master electronics technician.
Bridge volume split bridge neck volume split neck. 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. Working with the technician page designed a switching system for coil splitting series parallel and phase reverse options. 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.
Jimmy page wiring with lace alumitone pickups. Guitar wiring diagrams for tons of different setups. Guitar wiring diagram with the switching options of the jimmy page les paul. Single coils humbuckers hum sing sing hum sing hum and much more.
Joined aug 17 2017 messages 413 reaction score 539. I chose an alumitone humbucker for the neck and a deathbucker for the bridge. 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. This has become a famous les paul mod and in this context it s widely known as the jimmy page wiring.
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. Plus info on switches pots coil splitting and more.