Louis, you're COLD SOLDERING. You're supposed to warm the two parts, then put the solder on the coldest of the two parts and let it creep to the hottest (smallest) of the two parts. The way you're doing it, you will get brittle and oxidized solder joints that will eventually break! Solder on the tip of the iron is only to get a better heat transfer and protect the tip from oxide once it cools, again to prevent bad heat transfer for the next time.
I'd hate to hear how that guitar sounds or how much luthier work needs to be done after removing all the strings and not bracing the tremolo whatsoever. You keep teaching people the wing way and I'll keep fixing their guitars when they bring em to me, so I guess I should thank you on your video of how to do things wrong with unwarranted self-esteem in your voice. 🎉
Dude hell yeah I didn't know you did any pickup installation videos lol I've been doing my own for years but it's still educational for those who haven't and that are looking to upgrade. Quality information as always keep it coming brother and cheers from Texas
Texas!!! Bro, my older brother was a Drill Sergeant in Texas and loved living there! So many of my RU-vid brothers live there and I'm always jealous!!! I'll get 14" of snow here in NY and Scott from Deadhorse will text me that it's warm there! Hahaha!
I learned that the hard way! Rushing and having to literally do the soldering ALL over again! Thanks to you, I've done just that and go much slower now. : )
Just got done soldering a set of invaders into my new Schecter, dude you make it look easy haha. I had to set it up split coil push pull switch, nightmare. Did a tap test and got sound. Fingers crossed if it works once I set the string tomorrow in the FR.
Yeah bro, it sucks at first but when you get the chance, literally pull them out and install them again! It gets easier every time bro! So glad you installed them yourself!
The red and white wires are for the north coil and south coil. It is used for coil splitting. I make my pickups with Red as hot, Black and bare as ground. White as North coil and green as south coil.
What! You know how to make pickups?! Stop it! From scratch? Or do you just swap the colors somehow? Haha! I'm new to pickups, swapping, wiring, soldering! :)
It's literally, remove the old, see where the two wires (three, but the green and bare are always together) attach and that's it! I just learned and was shocked at how easy it is. It gets weird when you go from active pickups to passive bc everything is different. The pots are smaller for active so I had to use a dremel to enlarge the holes in a few guitars.
Did you not like the D Activator? I was watching videos on it and although DiMarzio says it's, "active-like," I'm glad it's really not and was thinking of getting them. That being said, how do like the El Diablos? Are those Scott Ian's? I thought I read that but I could be wrong.
The D Activator is going into a mockingbird and yes th El Diablo is the Scitt Ian p/u.....before it was a scott ian it was actuall designed for Tony Iommi before Gibson did the T.I. signature p/u.
I'm legally blind and so it would be far easier to just cut the wires about 1.5" away from the pots and just connect the wires that way. Down side? Trying to avoid the results of a blinded fool with a hot soldering iron lol
Im planning on installing a new pickup which has 5 wires(red,black,white,green and bare) and my original pickup only has 2 wires which is signal and bare wire.The new one says to tape the white and black together and do the same thing to bare and green.So I will have only 2 wires to solder which is the red one as hot and green/bare as ground.The question is should I solder it the same way as the original one?Being the red is now soldered to the same place as the signal one before and the green/bare too being soldered to the same spot?
Thanks for this, I've been meaning to learn how to change my own pick-ups cuz I don't wanna waste $50 so someone can do it for me haha, but as usual great video I'm always laughing watching your content.
That's why I wanted to learn, I was paying $45 per swap and had to wait five days! Now, I start and 15 minutes later, done! I can't believe it took me this long! Bro, I swear it's as easy what I did. It gets a little weird if you're going from active to passive bc the pots are different and you have to make the hole larger with a dremel. I make custom leather watch bands, so I already had a dremel with 1,000 attachments! Hahaha!
You just solder one pickup at a time and solder the neck pickup to the "rhythm" side of the pickup selector. Once you get one done, then you have to move to the bridge and wire it in the "down" section of the pickup selector switch. Not that hard... it's like having a threesome. If one guy is in her mouth, you can't utilize her mouth anymore, I mean you CAN but that's a little too crowded for me... you then have to go to the other end. Hahaha!!
Louis Torres lol gotcha man. When I gather the courage to do it I’ll probably pm you or something. What I’ll probably end up doing is leaving the 59 neck pickup in and swap the jb in the bridge for a black winter
Do you know what size screws you use to attach the pickup to the body of the guitar? Did you have to do any modifications to the feet of the pickup baseplate?
Awesome video turotrial sir! Saved me time and money bringing my guitar to a luthier. Question sir: i soldered my open wire and green wire to the previous wire that says ground on the switch. Or should i solder it to the pot? If so, which pot? The volume or tone? Thank you very much sir. Hope you answer back. Cheers!!!🤘🤘🤘
wait im confused maybe its cause this is a jackson? but i watched a video and it said the ground wires green n bare go to the back of the bridge pickup pot like yours is but then he said the black wire or the hot wire solders on the lug of the bridge pot, but yours is the selector switch, why is that?, im honestly shocked i know this much as im trying to learn how to do this one my own guitar LOL and yesterday i was like so many wires this is scary LOL
Bro, you've got this. Take a photo of your electrical with your cell phone and follow the exact color to color. Two literally get taped, so nothing is done with those. The other two, one is ground and just gets soldered to the back of the pot and the other is "hot" and gets soldered on one of the pins. Same as the old one. Heat the wire then heat the other and solder/ hold for three seconds and remove the iron. Make sure both ends are hot, so you don't have any cold solders that crack and disconnect. :)
I am changing my Jackson bridge pickup with Invader now and as I see, the wiring of my jackson is the same as yours - hot output to the switch and not to the volume knob, but this is not how the instruction of Seymour Duncan tells me to do. They say the black wire has to be connected to the volume controls connector. I am really confused now... 15 min. later: I've connected it the way you do and I have the signal, it works. But now I'm wondering - would it work as well if I'd connected it to the volume knob instead? My knowledge of soldering and wiring is pretty close to zero, so maybe you can clear it for me? I have it done your way also because my old pickup was connected this way, but than why do they say it should be done different?
Lois, thinking of swapping the factory duncan custom 5 bridge in my 2015 ESP Horizon FR to the classic JB. Do you have any ESPs with JB bridge ? Its a pickup I've always been happy with 20+ years playing and tinkering. Have tried emg, fishman, dimarzio but always come back to seymour duncan.
Yes sir! My 1996 ESP Horizon Custom has the black/ white Seymour JBs and the bridge pickup is fire! Thing is brutal as eff!!! I'm glad you have yours in a Horizon also!! Twinning!!!!!!!! :)
@@louistorres yeah, I love the horizons with the mahogany body but the tone is way too dark for me with the custom 5 bridge. I need to wake it's ass up and I think a JB will work as it always does :)
I'm trying to install some Invaders in my Soloist. I can't get anything from the middle position or the neck position. It's just a 3 way switch with the factory pots and it's kicking my ass. I'm getting countiounity, but no sound. You got any advice?
You should find the diagram for three way selector with three pickups from Seymour Duncan's website. I don't know what the other two pickups are, so hopefully the colors are the same as the Invader. If not, use a multi meter to find the hot wire. :)
Those 90s Jackson pickups are liquid gold. That thing's output is still on fire, thirty years later. If you can find them on eBay or reverb, you have to grab them.
It's literally a cheap $350 guitar, I would do things differently if it were one of my $2,800 ESP MII Customs but a cheap Jackson? Naw. That's like being upset that your old sneakers got dirty in the mud outside. Trust that I'm not worried and you shouldn't worry about this thirty year old sneaker either.
Will you demo the seymour Duncan slug? Super interested in that pickup, but can’t vibe any good videos of it. Wondering why because it’s the hottest rail pickup in existence.
Don't own it so can't demo it. Actually, there are a bunch of RU-vid videos with Ola, Keith and others demoing it. At a whopping 45k DCR, I don't think I'd buy it but check out those videos and determine if it's right for you.
Louis Torres I’ve seen those videos but both of them have backing tracks no raw tones. And everyone is playing it in a doom style as the pickup supposedly was made for that. I kind of just wanted to you do a chug fest with in a metal format. But I feel ya, I’ll keep an eye out for a good demonstration of it. Gotta know that sucker sounds like in a real amp doing chugs. Maybe I’ll just buy one. Currently use an invader.
@@Kris-ex6yk that pickup is insane! Hahaha! It's as high as 45k DCR!! I can't imagine what they have to do to get it that high. From the magnet to the 10,000+ winds of wiring and even then, it would have to be a thicker gauge wire to push it to that level.
@@Kris-ex6yk Now I understand why it has such a high output, it's designed to create a natural fuzz which would be ideal for Doom metal, so it actually wouldn't have that much "chug." It would sound like the chugish/ melodic tone from a cranked fuzz box. I'm just not into that fuzz tone, it's just a different kind of metal that I don't listen to but if you're into doom/ stoner metal then you should consider it. For me, I need something that's not as harsh sounding and more in the 14-18k range for a bridge pickup. :)
Louis Torres I play in a grindcore band and run a bass amp and guitar and kind of run a clean bass scooped eq and boat mids on a the guitar side. My thought was with such high output maybe I would not need a distortion pedal anymore cause there’s no way you can get a decent clean tone. So it would possibly push the bass head into natural distortion. In grind there’s an embrace of all things harsh and not so nice. In the Keith marrow video it doesn’t sound fuzzy at all. So wondering if this thing could be meanest sounding rail ever with its double magnet tone. But also could be used for stoner tone. And on the bass side the tone I go for is similar to fuzz. Very scooped and massive while guitar eq is chainsaw. Sounds cool together.
I do and have had at least twenty guys ask to buy it. Haha! It's an old school handwired pickup that's in my collection for a while. They pop up on Reverb and eBay from time to time. Check out my Instagram, I just posted one of my other 1992 Jacksons that has the J85 still in it. :)
Louis, you need a "camera man" or a "camera stand" of some sort. Would probably help ya out....Oh, or something to strap to your head while doing videos like this......just a suggestion to help you. To free up your hands.
Watch the video carefully as I solder... Free hands!! I just didn't want to use the stand at the beginning of the video, but then I eventually used it for the soldering section of the video. :) All of my videos actually utilize a tripod for my camera, not sure if you noticed. It's literally all of my photography gear that I use. :)
It's all good, it's just to show guys that it's not really that difficult to do and you don't have to spend $45 every time you want to swap pickups. : )
@@shelovesthenight8425 my soldering is terrible! Hahaha! I haven't soldered since I was 14 years old and then started again a few weeks ago. I'm still learning as I go along and thanks for watching my channel!! I promise I'll do a better video! Haha! I'm waiting to buy DIY pedals from China but have to wait until this Coronavirus craziness is over!
@@louistorres Hey good luck with that. And by that, I mean not contracting corona virus HAHAHA! Nah! Building kits is super fun though. It is however a gateway. You might end up like me with eurorack. And your wallet will be truly fucked up. Keep shredding bro!!!