CARVIN PICKUP WIRING INSTRUCTIONS
TOP COIL A
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.
R
DRILLING PICKUP WIRE HOLE
W
If you are mounting the pickup directly on a wood body, you must drill a hole for the pickup 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.
B
G
RED and WHITE wires: Coil A
BLACK and GREEN wires: Coil B
BOTTOM COIL B
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.
GRN
PICKUP
BL
K
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.
WHT
SERIES/PARALELL
RED
LD
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.
G
W
S3
R
SHIE
WIRING THE CONTROLS
HOT TO VOLUME
OR SELECTOR SW.
TO
GROUND
Fig 2.
TO
GROUND
B
HOT OUT
TO
Coil “B” on in single coil mode.
GRN
PICKUP
G
HOT OUT
WHT
RE
D
LD
BLK
G
R
SERIES/SPLIT/PHASED
ON/ON/ON
This wiring gives you three different sounds.
1. Top single coil, 2. dual coil humbucking or 3. bottom single coil.
(As used on the TL60-33 circuit)
S2
SHIE
LD
S3
PICKUP
HOT OUTPUT
TO VOLUME
OR SELECTOR
TO
GROUND
BLK & SHLD
to GRND
Fig 3.
RED
BLK
TO
GROUND
2 Pickup guitar with a 3-way pickup selector, 1 volume & 1 tone
NECK
PICKUP
BRIDGE
PICKUP
PICKUP
D
SHIE
L
K
WHT
RED
Dual
Single
D
R ED
BL
K
IEL
SH
D
GND
S3
S1
RE
K
BL
BL
TO
GROUND
KIT 40
KIT 30
P2
TONE
HOT OUTPUT
TO VOLUME
OR SELECTOR
RED
WHT
GRN
BLK
SHIELD
Single pickup guitar with volume, tone & coil splitter.
C1
W
TO GROUND
PICKUP
P1
VOL
HOT OUTPUT
TO VOLUME
OR SELECTOR
SHIE
PHASE SWITCH WIRING
W
S3
P1
VOL
GND
C1
L11
JACK
P2
TONE
L11
JACK
KIT 40 DC127 (includes 2 coil splitters)
TL60-33
For 2 Pickup guitar. (Used on the Carvin DC127 model)
For 2 Pickup guitar. With 3-way Pickup Selector (S4) & 3-way Coil Splitter Switch (S2).
Single
Dual
Single
C1
GND
GND
L11
JACK
76-00015
B
R
P2
TONE
P1
VOL
S3
SHIELD
S3
SHIELD
C1
P2
TONE
W
S2
P1
VOL
S1
S
S
R
Dual
Single
B
W
RB
GE
BRID UP
PICK
Dual
Single
NECK P
PICKU
GE
ID UP
BR ICK
P
CK P
NE CKU
PI
W
B R
S4
SWITCH
L11
JACK
D
R
SH
IEL
D
S3
BS
R
P2
TONE
BS
RB
S3
S
C1
BL
D
I EL
S3
SH
BLK
D
IEL
SH
P1
VOL
P1
VOL
NECK P
PICKU
RE
ED
RE
D
LE
MIDDUP
PICK
Kit 50 with 5-way Pickup Selector
3 Pickup guitar with S5 switch. (Used on DC135 with 26 option)
GE
BRID UP
PICK
KIT 50
3 Pickup guitar with 3 ON/OFF switches. (Used on the Carvin DC135 model)
MIDDLE
BRIDGE PICKUP
NECK
PICKUP
PICKUP
R
BL
K
K
C1
P2
TONE
GND
GND
S5
SWITCH
L11
JACK
L11
JACK
Use these templates to route for Carvin pickups. Templates are exact size.
S60 & H60 Routing Template
ROUT 5/8" DEEP
5/64"
DRILL 1/2" DEEP
3/4"
3"
3 5/16"
C22, H22 & M22 Routing Template
ROUT 5/8" DEEP
5/64" DRILL
1/2" DEEP
ROUT
1" DEEP
1 7/16"
1 1/2"
3 5/32"
3 5/16"
H50N Routing Template
5/64"
DRILL 1/2" DEEP
ROUT 9/16" DEEP
1 7/32"
13/16"
1 9/16"
3 3/4"
15/16"