![]() ![]() One popular single conductor vintage-style humbucker created by DiMarzio is the 36th Anniversary pickup. Originally, however, most humbuckers only had a single conductor with a braided shield, like P90 pickups, and could be installed the same way. Most modern humbuckers that you purchase today have four conductors, which means the pickup will have four colored wires and one bare wire that acts as a shield for the whole pickup. In Example 3, we illustrate a common way to install P90 pickups into a Gibson Les Paul-style guitar. These pickups often use a single conductor wire, which is the Hot, surrounded by a metal surrounded by a braided metal coating, which is the Ground. Popular DiMarzio P90 pickups include the Fantom P90, the Vintage P90, and the DP210 Tone Zone. P90s are also about the same size as humbuckers, and often, you can swap out one for the other. These pickups look similar to humbuckers, but the single row of posts often gives them away as P90s. P90 pickups are Gibson’s answer to the single-coil. ![]() In Example 2, we illustrate a common way to wire DiMarzio pickups in the bridge position of the Fender Telecaster. These two-wire pickups often use white for the Hot and black for the Ground. Examples of Telecaster pickups made by DiMarzio include The Chopper T, Twang King, and the Area T. These pickups often come with the unique baseplate built-in. ![]() The Fender Telecaster is another very common single-coil guitar, not all that different from the Fender Stratocaster. In Example 1, we illustrate a common way to wire DiMarzio single-coil pickups into a Strat. Single-coil pickups always have two wires. DiMarzio uses a couple of different colors for the Hot in their single-coil pickups, including red, white, and yellow, with red being the most popular. DiMarzio single coils include the Red Velvet, Utopia, and the FS-1. Let’s start with how to install pickups in a vintage Stratocaster. We cover the installation of many DiMarzio pickups, and there is a good chance we have one for the model you are installing. If this guide moves too quickly, we recommend checking out one of our many step-by-step pickup installation tutorials. While this article will show you how to install these pickups, it assumes that you have changed pickups before and can follow the diagrams below, as well as remove your old model pickup. If you like DiMarzios and are planning to install different models of pickups, this guide is for you. We’ll cover everything from single-coils to P90s to humbuckers. In this guide, we’ll show you how to wire DiMarzio pickups into any kind of guitar. ![]()
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