[noname]

I am new to humbuckers, although I know my way around single coil pickups a bit. I want to wire a Burtsbucker and a Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates into my Les Paul Classic. I know that Seymour Duncahs are reverse wound from other brands such as fender pickups, and you have to keep that in mind when following the wiring diagrams.

does that also apply to Humbuckers? will I need to adjust the wiring diagram to put Gibson pickup with an SD?

thanks.
Matt

[Wally]

IF Gibson has held true to their wiring colors, then here ya go.....
A-B one coil, C-D the second coil
Gibson ....A is black, B is green, C is red, and D is white
SD..........A is black, B is white, C is green, and D is red

Standard serieslinked/out-of-phase is the normal humbucking wiring scheme. That would be A-hot, B&D linked, and C to ground. IF you have 4 conductors and you wire those two pickups up in that manner and they don't relate to each other as you want when in the middle position, then you can experiment and see what arrangement yields what you want....in phase or out-of-phase regarding the two pickups together. IT might be as simple as taking A to ground and C to lead on one of the pickups.

If both pickups are already wired as two conductors, then you are stuck with what the combination yields unless you remove the pickup covers and start rewiring those four conductors that are the ends of the two coils and/or changing orientation of the magnets. Google humbucking pickups and start studying if you go that far.