MoJoKe Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 For my Jazz fretless project I have acquired a pair of "Duncan Designed" pickups from a Squier VM Jazz, can someone tell me how to wire them please? They have a shield, white and red. The only diagram I can find on the Seymour Duncan website which is similar is for active jazz pickups, as all the rest have only two wires (like my Lakland JO), but I don't think this is correct as I thought VM's were passive.? So, can anyone help me, or post a pic of the wiring inside the bell plate of your jazz bass please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iiipopes Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 You can use a traditional J-bass wiring diagram. The white is the hot lead. Solder the shield with the red wire to the back of the pot for the grounding as in the diagram. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoJoKe Posted March 10, 2015 Author Share Posted March 10, 2015 aha, thank you so much!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfretrock Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 The wiring diagram that comes with SD pickups has such an arrangement for something called a SJ5 (whatever that is) in addition to the usual SB and SJ diagrams, with black/white pairs: Shield (bare) - to ground White - to ground Red - to pot (hot lead) Can scan diagram if needed, but I'm a few miles from my scanner and have ISP problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoJoKe Posted March 17, 2015 Author Share Posted March 17, 2015 I'd very much appreciate a diagram please as I wired as per iiipopes suggestion, but the output is virtually non-existent! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfretrock Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Not much to go wrong with passives wiring - sure they are not active? Here's the diagram from SD (just noticed SJ5 is five string passive pickups.) (rename to .pdf) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoJoKe Posted March 17, 2015 Author Share Posted March 17, 2015 Thats really helpful, thank you! As per iiipopes suggestion I wired white as hot, so hopefully this will sort my problem! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoJoKe Posted March 18, 2015 Author Share Posted March 18, 2015 Ah, thats MUCH better - they now sound considerably better than the old ones, as I'd hoped!! Thanks so much to both of you, as these seem to be a bit quirky! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfretrock Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Great stuff, glad it worked. Zero out of ten to SD for changing the wiring colour codes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funky Dunky Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 "Duncan Designed Pickups" No I didn't.... Badump-tsh! Sorry... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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