CARVIN PICKUP WIRING INSTRUCTIONS
LOCATING PICKUPS ON THE GUITAR
TOP COIL A
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.
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.
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
WHT
BL
SHIE
LD
PICKUP WIRING
B
G
RED and WHITE wires: Coil A
BLACK and GREEN wires: Coil B
RED
SERIES/PARALELL
K
G
W
S3
R
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.
TO
GROUND
Fig 2.
HOT OUT
TO
LD
S3
HOT OUTPUT
TO VOLUME
OR SELECTOR
W
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
TO
GROUND
KIT 30
Single pickup guitar with volume, tone & coil splitter.
SHIELD
TO
GROUND
KIT 40
2 Pickup guitar with a 3-way pickup selector, 1 volume & 1 tone
KIT 40 DC127 (includes 2 coil splitters)
For 2 Pickup guitar. (Used on the Carvin DC127 model)
HOT OUTPUT
TO VOLUME
OR SELECTOR
RED
WHT
GRN
BLK
TL60-33
For 2 Pickup guitar. With 3-way Pickup Selector (S4) & 3-way Coil Splitter Switch (S2).
GE
BRID UP
PICK
W
S
B
R
R
S
NECK P
PICKU
S2
P2
TONE
P1
VOL
B
LD
SHIE
S3
PICKUP
HOT OUTPUT
TO VOLUME
OR SELECTOR
R
Fig 3.
RED
BLK
BLK & SHLD
to GRND
SERIES/SPLIT/PHASED
ON/ON/ON
TO GROUND
G
HOT OUT
D
SHIE
BLK
G
WHT
RE
PHASE SWITCH WIRING
TO
GROUND
B
GRN
that do have the green wire disregard this note.
W
TO
GROUND
Coil “B” on in single coil mode.
PICKUP
Note: Solder green and white wires together unless otherwise specified. For pickups
PICKUP
HOT TO VOLUME
OR SELECTOR SW.
Single
Dual
Single
C1
GND
76-00015
S4
SWITCH
L11
JACK
Kit 50 with 5-way Pickup Selector
KIT 50
3 Pickup guitar with S5 switch. (Used on DC135 with 26 option)
3 Pickup guitar with 3 ON/OFF switches. (Used on the Carvin DC135 model)
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NECK P
PICKU
BS
LE
MIDDUP
PICK
GE
BRID UP
PICK
R
P1
VOL
P2
TONE
BS
RB
C1
S
GND
S5
SWITCH
L11
JACK
Note: Solder green and white wires together. For pickups that do not
have the green wire, disregard this note.
Use these templates to route for Carvin pickups. Templates are exact size.
AP11 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 & J99 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"