To start with we’ll use single-coil pickups as they’re more basic. This creates a series of voltage differences between the start and end of that wire, which correspond to the movements of the string, and thus the sound. This isn’t an article on how pickups work, so for our purposes we will just acknowledge that the strings disturb the pickup’s magnetic field, which is then “read” by the coiled wire. So if you plug into your guitar and you get absolute silence, you know you’ve probably got a short circuit.
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Note that this is different to when you plug a cable into your amp, but don’t plug the other end into a guitar (yes, we’ve all done it, even though our amp manual tells us not to). If the voltage difference between hot and ground is a constant zero, silence is the result. We usually call these two contacts “hot” and “ground”. The most basic piece of knowledge you can have about guitar wiring is this: The two contacts in question are the tip and ring of the jack cable you plug into the input on your amp. This is what turns the electricity into sound. What a guitar amp actually does is amplify the changing voltage between two contacts enough that it can physically move a speaker. This is the first in a short series of blog posts that will take you from the very basics, up to where you will probably feel confident enough not only to follow the schematics you find on the internet (such as those found here), but to design and implement your own wiring schemes. However, it’s still possible to get yourself into a bit of a mess if you don’t have a basic understanding of why you’re doing what you’re doing. It’s reversible, it’s not too hard, and it has an immediate impact on your tone. Guitar Wiring 101: For many players, a change of pickups is one of the very first steps into modding guitars.
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