Wire cutters Solder sucker Solder Stratocaster or S-type guitar New pickups Patience To begin, remove the strings from your Strat. Once the strings are off, remove each scratchplate screw and carefully flip the pickguard over onto a soft surface, such as a cloth or tea towel, to prevent sc...
First, remove the pickguard by unscrewing the small screws on the outside of the pickguard. I like to put a piece of tape down on my workbench and stick the small screws on the tape once I remove them from the guitar. It’s a good way of not losing them. Once you have all the ...
strip the wires with a pair of wire strippers, and solder the wires to the correct lugs. After everything is soldered in place, reattached the cavity cover or pickguard. For more information about how to solder wiring, seethe soldering page. ...
Note:AC and DC voltages can coexist on the same wire. In a guitar amp, the AC guitar signal is imposed on top of the high DC voltages. Fortunately, that AC signal can be separated: Capacitors in the circuit block DC voltages but allow the AC guitar signal to get through. The Guitar ...
“Audio is unique when it comes to electricity, in that it’s more susceptible to issues like noise in electricity than almost anything in your house is,” explains Seth Berman, the creative mind behind Chicago-basedBlack Lion Audio’spower conditioning program. “When electricians wire up a ho...
invented by Paul H. Tutmarc. Inspired by the inner workings of the telephone, which employed magnetics to create vocal vibrations, Tutmarc experimented on the Hawaiian guitar, building a magnetic pickup out of horseshoe magnets and wire coils that amplified the vibration of the instrument's ...