Help with wiring diagram I found here

[fender3x]

Interesting to see what you did with the wiring, Weirdbits. I am curious which of the B+N options you use. Are they all useful settings?

I have the "Modern Vintage" version, four conductor, not quick connect. I set mine up so that each pup can select SC or HB, and with both pickups selected in SC mode, it has a "traditional" NN as well as a humbucking mode.

It may be because the modern vintage version is a little hotter, but the in SC mode they have a bit more top-end jangle. It's a good setting, particularly with the neck pickup, and particularly for playing clean. They are a little quieter than HB mode, of course, but a good sound and neither washes out. In HB mode the website says they should sound like a "PAF"... to my ear they are more in-between. More like a mini-humbucker. It's a good sound though, particularly with a bit of dirt. I don't use the SC+HB settings, though. In those setting the HB overpowers the SC.

Just FWIW ;-)

[Fat Brian]

I wanted to reply to this thread but my bridge pickup has been on a slow boat from China. It got here today and now everything works as intended. I want to thank WeirdBits for such and interesting diagram that gives so many options. So, long story short, I got this to work with Arctec pickups. They are wired correctly to use with this diagram and work as intended as best as I can tell.

The following information is for completeness sake and for anyone else who wants to try this and finds this thread, I may post it in the original thread too. So, the Kwik Plug GFS pickups are not wired correctly even with the five wire connectors. I got my meter out and tested the connectors after my last post. The plug connectors are wired green for the tip, red and white together on the second area, black for the third and bare for the fourth. I also tried a Fleor brand pickup and they aren't wired right either. They come green and bare together, red and white together, and black by itself. No matter how I wired it in the it didn't seem to work, I tried every orientation of colored wires I could think of and it never made a good noise. So shout out to Arctec pickups for being wired correctly.

[fender3x]

I got a great deal on my GFS pickups that were NOS and did not have the quick connects. I don't think the color codes are 100% consistent. There are lots of guides to how they are wired like this one...

https://madhatterguitarproducts.com/...ets-references

...but YMMV, particularly for the MIC pickups and double particularly when the company that sells them is not the company that made them, (both true with GFS). I can't complain about the way mine sound, but it's best to test them to see what goes where if there is any doubt.

By reputation Artec pickups sound good, and Korean made products have been pretty good quality in my experience. Should sound great. Hope you're happy with them and glad you got it playing!

[Fat Brian]

Yeah, I really wanted to use the GFS pickups, I'll find a project to put them in eventually. The Arctec pickups seem fine though, at least for now.

[fender3x]

Funny how that works. I started one build because I had a neck, and just stared acquiring parts until it became a bass. Did the same thing with a body. Now there I have this one really nice pickup on the shelf that keeps calling to me...

[Trevor Davies]

Funny how that works. I started one build because I had a neck, and just stared acquiring parts until it became a bass. Did the same thing with a body. Now there I have this one really nice pickup on the shelf that keeps calling to me...

This sounds like "silently" guitar building!

[fender3x]

Shhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! She'll hear you!