![]() it doesnt say anything about which wires relate to which coil and you need to make sure theyre connected in the right phase or youll get low scratchy output as you describe wther you go for series or parallel. That doesnt say anything you wouldnt have expected, thats about 7k resistance per coil. Edited Jby SpartacusĬable colours/needle settings Red and white are rarely used as ground colours, their usually hot outputs so im assuming yellow and black are grounds. MM pickup coils in parallelīod2, if blac & yellow are grounds then your instructions for series are incorrect as that would wire the pickup series but out of phase giving a weak scratchy sounding output. The second combination should give a higher output.ġ. Make sure you wire both pickups the same way. Wire up as the Standard Jazz bass diagram using the MM red wire as the Jazz bass white (hot) and the MM white as the Jazz bass black (ground). ![]() Put insulation tape over the black/yellow join to cover any bare wires then leave this "floating". The rest of the wiring would be the same as on the Jazz bass diagram. The black/yellow combination on your pickup would be equivalent to the black (grounded) wire on the Jazz bass diagram and you would then join the red/white wires together to be equivalent to the white (hot) wire on the Jazz bass diagram. If this is the case then there are two possible ways to wire the pickups with reference to the Standard Jazz Bass diagram I would expect the resistance to be highest between the red and white wires (maybe twice as much as the other two combinations). If you have a multimeter measure the resistance between the black/yellow and red wire, then the black/yellow and white wire, then between the red and white wires. What you could try is to take the first diagram and combine that with the standard Jazz bass one Given that the pickup is a MM clone then have a look at these two diagrams to see if they make sense first (ignore the actual wire colours on the pickup as these seem to be different - it's more about what the pickup is capable of).įrom these you can see that a single MM pickup can actually be split into two separate coils, which probably explains the extra wires. Some trial and error might be required, unless you have a multimeter that you can use to determine how the pickup is to be wired. ![]() There don't seem to by any Wilkinson pickup wiring diagrams around anywhere ! I don't really understand the whole hot wire thing, so if anyone has a simple diagram that will help, or (if you're in a say thirty miles radius of Reading), I'll happily drive over and buy you a beer.įinally, I'm away now until the 13th. The black and yellow wires are/were soldered together. They have four wires coming out of them coloured a (thick) black, yellow, red and white. I'd like to run these is much the same configuration as a Jazz (V/V/T), but I can't find a schematic anywhere that will allow me to do this - I'm really not so worried about what the pickups can achieve when wired a certain way.I'm a straight rock player, so generally all the onboard bass controls are generally full onĪnyhow, the pickups. Everything on this build has been going quite smoothly until it came to actually getting some noise out of it! don't actually know whether the pickups are active or passive (this only just dawned on me a few minutes ago) I paid until £25.00 the pair so I'm suspecting passive, which is fine. ![]() I've been throwing together a Jazz style bass and as the existing body routs were kind of big, I bought a pair of Wilkinson MWM4C MusicMan clone pickups the pickups came raw - no packaging or schamatics.
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