Jimmy Page Humbucker Wiring

Working with the technician page designed a switching system for coil splitting series parallel and phase reverse options.

Jimmy page humbucker wiring. At first my intention was to use a 4pin jst connector top center on the above. 2 humbuckers 3 way toggle switch two volumes and two tone controls. This has become a famous les paul mod and in this context it s widely known as the jimmy page wiring. Plus info on switches pots coil splitting and more.

Here is a link on amazon to purchase the covered version of these pickups. 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. But again it s not limited to a les paul. 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.

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. Joined aug 17 2017 messages 413 reaction score 539. Without wanting to damage his beloved guitar jimmy employed a master electronics technician. Jimmy page wiring with lace alumitone pickups.

I upgraded an epiphone les paul traditional pro with seymour duncan whole lotta humbuckers and explain the jimmy page wiring. 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. However aside from that difference in the wiring it still gives you the 21 different combos that appear on the jp tone chart and certainly captures the essence of the original jimmy page mod. 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.

I chose an alumitone humbucker for the neck and a deathbucker for the bridge. 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. Single coils humbuckers hum sing sing hum sing hum and much more. Guitar wiring diagrams for tons of different setups.

Start date sep 13 2017. Guitar wiring diagram with the switching options of the jimmy page les paul.