Need Major help

[Eternity117]

Ok, i have a newer ibanez icx120. it has 2 ibanez powerhouse or something pickups h/h, and a 3 way switch.

now, i want to put dimarzio evolutions in it, which i have sitting infront of me.. now on the evolutions i seea a black green red and white wires and a wire with out any covering. and when i look in my guitar . from each pickup is only a white and stripped wire going out....i have like 4 extra wires from the evos and i do not know where to put them....


ssorry if i sound like a noob, but i have not changed pickups but i do have soldering experiance so i figure if you guys can tell me what to do. i dont need to spend an extra $70 at gc....


thanks

[moro]

Solder the red and green wires together and cover the end in tape. Then solder the bare wire and black wire together. Now you just have two wires--the white one and the black / bare combination.

Just solder the white wire where the white one used to be and the black / bare wire where the bare one used to be.

Here's a useful chart that tells you what's going on.

http://www.gibson.com/magazines/ampl...mg/101_02a.gif

With your current pickups, the A and C wires are permanently wired together, which is why you only have two leads.

[buddroyce]

I've always done it by connecting, the black and white wires together, soldered the green and bare wires to ground and then the red one has always been the live one that I solder to the pickup selector. Technically speaking doing it the way moro just mentioned still works but the only difference is that your signal is going the other way (as long as you don't mix them you're ok)