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Question about Hyperswitch Wiring to EMG pickups. (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Acklavidian@lemmy.sdf.org to c/guitars@lemmy.world

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Pickups have a 4 wire connection but the Hyper switch expects 4 wires too but the terminology is different between documentation so I don't know which wires go where. Could someone help me out?

Pickups: https://www.emgpickups.com/pub/media/Mageants/h/z/hz_h3_h4_b245_0230-0221rf.pdf

Hyperswitch: https://www.seymourduncan.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SeymourDuncan_HyperSwitch_Wiring_rev4.pdf

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[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're not sure what you're doing with active pickup wiring like this, have a pro do it.

[–] Acklavidian@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They actually are not active. And I am too impatient to wait days or weeks for a pro to mess this up for me.

[–] rug_burn@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Man, that's a fancy switch! I did a little digging because now I'm interested in this Hyperswitch - here's a link to a PDF that "decodes" the wiring from different manufacturers - https://www.mamapickups.com/images/support/PickupColorCodeChart.pdf The tl;dr-