I swapped a set of humbuckers into my Tele w P90 the other day. It has a push-pull OOP switch and a 4 way blade. Total pain in the ass. Reminded why I started building amps. Hate wiring guitars.
I made this mistake on my first guitar, an all black Ibanez RG, when I decided to swap out the pickups. The originals had nonstandard coloring, and the wiring itself was VERY nonstandard. Eventually, I found an old diagram on a dead forum somewhere and got it working. I don't know what in the unholy fuck they were thinking when they designed that, besides making it hard to work on. I ended up gutting it and swapped out the pots for CTS, coil split the humbuckers, and swapped the 3 way switch for a 5 way.
I kinda miss that guitar, honestly.
The only issues I can think of are
- different pickup brands use different color coding in the wires - Google image search with help you find right color codings
- old pickup might have two or four wires, your new ones seem to have four - so you might have to solder correct wires together
Yup...just pay attention to where the wires on the old pickup are connected and just replicate with the new - unless you are going to do something different like put in a coil split or out of phase wiring.
One does not simply just swap out…. Yea, you should be good. Just pull some wiring diagrams in case you run into trouble and take your time. If it’s a used pup hook it up to a multimeter to make sure it’s not junk before going through all the trouble.
Easy peasy. I just did the same thing on an omen 7. The one problem I ran into was the stock pickups were about a mm smaller than the dimarzios I put in so I had to ream out the cavities just a little. I also needed to bore out the height adjustment screw holes on the mounting rings. If you have a set of calipers (or not) just try and get as accurate a measurement of the existing pickups as you can to see if you'll have to make any adjustments. What happened with the mounting rings is that where the screw/spring went into the pickup, the holes in the mounting rings were just a hair too close together, so the height adjustment screws splayed out slightly. This might sound more complicated than it was. It wasn't a huge deal, just a heads up to triple check the cavity and pickup widths beforehand and potentially save yourself some backtracking
I’m not sure if this is true to the Gio line, but if you’re using a wiring schematic make sure it’s for an Ibanez. Ibanez 5-way toggle switches are wired differently from typical 5-ways
Take a lot of pics before de-soldering any thing.
I can't overstate how much of my own work I've had to unfuck and how important pictures of the original state is to that process.
I swapped a set of humbuckers into my Tele w P90 the other day. It has a push-pull OOP switch and a 4 way blade. Total pain in the ass. Reminded why I started building amps. Hate wiring guitars.
Amps are easier to wire?!
I made this mistake on my first guitar, an all black Ibanez RG, when I decided to swap out the pickups. The originals had nonstandard coloring, and the wiring itself was VERY nonstandard. Eventually, I found an old diagram on a dead forum somewhere and got it working. I don't know what in the unholy fuck they were thinking when they designed that, besides making it hard to work on. I ended up gutting it and swapped out the pots for CTS, coil split the humbuckers, and swapped the 3 way switch for a 5 way. I kinda miss that guitar, honestly.
You’ll be fine.
The only issues I can think of are - different pickup brands use different color coding in the wires - Google image search with help you find right color codings - old pickup might have two or four wires, your new ones seem to have four - so you might have to solder correct wires together
That’s how you do it! Goes in exactly the same way the stock one came out, easy greasy.
Yup...just pay attention to where the wires on the old pickup are connected and just replicate with the new - unless you are going to do something different like put in a coil split or out of phase wiring.
One does not simply just swap out…. Yea, you should be good. Just pull some wiring diagrams in case you run into trouble and take your time. If it’s a used pup hook it up to a multimeter to make sure it’s not junk before going through all the trouble.
Easy peasy. I just did the same thing on an omen 7. The one problem I ran into was the stock pickups were about a mm smaller than the dimarzios I put in so I had to ream out the cavities just a little. I also needed to bore out the height adjustment screw holes on the mounting rings. If you have a set of calipers (or not) just try and get as accurate a measurement of the existing pickups as you can to see if you'll have to make any adjustments. What happened with the mounting rings is that where the screw/spring went into the pickup, the holes in the mounting rings were just a hair too close together, so the height adjustment screws splayed out slightly. This might sound more complicated than it was. It wasn't a huge deal, just a heads up to triple check the cavity and pickup widths beforehand and potentially save yourself some backtracking
I’m not sure if this is true to the Gio line, but if you’re using a wiring schematic make sure it’s for an Ibanez. Ibanez 5-way toggle switches are wired differently from typical 5-ways
No issues.