LOCATING PICKUPS ON THE GUITAR
Determine where you want to locate your pickup(s). Then find the center line of the
neck and draw a center line on the body. Use the paper template on the back of this
sheet to locate the routing and the pickup mounting screw holes.
DRILLING PICKUP WIRE HOLE
If you are mounting the pickup directly on a wood body, you must drill a hole for the pick-
up wire. Use a 3/16” or 1/4” drill bit. If you have to drill through more than 2” of wood,
you should use a special 12” long drill bit, which is available at most hardware stores.
PICKUP WIRING
All Carvin 22 series pickups have three wires plus a bare shield wire. The shield wire
always goes to ground. The white wire only gets used if you want dual-to-single coil
switching. If you don’t want to use this feature, then tape the white wire back. The
black and red wires are to be used for standard humbucking operation. Solder red to
hot and black to ground. If your guitar sounds out of phase with both pickups on,
reverse the red and black wires of one pickup.
WIRING THE CONTROLS
If you are using one of the Carvin circuits, just follow the desired wiring diagram. You
should install a ground wire that runs from the tailpiece or bridge to the control area. Solder
this ground wire to the back of one of the potentiometers. Be careful not to use excessive
heat when soldering to the potentiometers or switches as you may damage them.
PHASE SWITCH WIRING
A phase switch can be wired into any two or three pickup guitar. As the diagram below
shows, only one pickup is hooked up to the phase switch. The phase switch will only
function when another pickup is used in conjunction with the pickup that is switched out
of phase. The phase switch will give a nasal muted type sound with slightly less output.
Note: Solder green and white wires together unless otherwise specified. For pickups
that do have the green wire disregard this note.
KIT 30
Single pickup guitar with volume, tone & coil splitter.
KIT 40 DC127 (includes 2 coil splitters)
For 2 Pickup guitar. (Used on the Carvin DC127 model)
KIT 40
2 Pickup guitar with a 3-way pickup selector, 1 volume & 1 tone
Dual-Single Coil Switch Wiring
To obtain humbucking operation when playing through both pickups in the single coil
mode, wire one humbucking pickup using fig 1 and the other pickup with the diagram
in fig 2 (also see Kit 40 DC127 diagram). Neck pickup coil A together with bridge
pickup coil B sounds more like a telecaster. Neck pickup coil B & bridge pickup coil A
together sound more like a Stratocaster.
Fig 1. Coil “A” on in single coil mode.
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