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Originally Posted by Raffel
I've ordered a 7-string Evo and Air Norton for my RG2127x....the wires seem to differ in color from the schematics and diagrams i've seen so far. So is there a diagram that would help me get past this problem? I've checked ibanez's website. But it's always stock pups being changed by other dimarzio's than i'm getting.
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the wire colors on all
DiMarzio pickups are the same, regardless of model -- an Evo is the same as an AN, etc. so if you have a diagram for any DiMarzios, like Kevan Geier's diagram for installing DiMarzios in a Double Edge guitar like yours [
www.projectguitar.com/tut/rewire.htm ; it also includes his piezo wiring mod but just ignore that], then you'll be set. that diagram does have some phasing issues, but i don't think you will encounter them with the stock wiring.
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Originally Posted by Raffel
And another thing. How will i know i'm not mounting the pups backwards?
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the standard way to mount humbuckers with one coil of screw pole pieces and another coil of flat slug poles [like the AN] in a 2 HB setup is with the screw poles as the outer coils -- bridge HB screw coil closest to the bridge, neck HB screw coil closest to the neck. this style comes from the way gibson mounted humbuckers in the 50s when they invented them.
to do this on DiMarzio pickups, since they don't make different neck and bridge versions of their pickups, you will need to unscrew the bottom of the pickup, CAREFULLY pop the magnet out, rotate it 180 degrees on the flat face, and slip it back in. if you don't flip the magnet, the in-between switch positions of different coil combinations won't hum cancel.
if you don't want to flip the neck pickup magnet, you could also mount the neck pickup "backwards" by having the screw pole pieces away from the neck, closer to the bridge. you may have to change the wiring scheme from the
wiring diagram, but once you get the wiring right the magnet polarities should hum cancel in the in-between switch positions.
[i don't know if Kevan's diagram assumes the neck pickup is installed "forwards" with the magnet flipped or not.]
on a pickup like the Blaze II where both coils have pole pieces that look exactly the same, none of this matters, since the pickup will never look "forwards" or "backwards."
