Wiring Diagrams for
Pickup Models:
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Quarter Pound P-Bass
®
- 5 strg
The basic steps for installation include:
1. Remove the strings from your bass.
2. Remove the control plate and flip it over.
3. De-solder the original pickup’s wires from the controls and
make sure to remember where they were connected.
4. Remove the pickup from the pickup cavity.
5. If the foam in the cavity of your bass has degraded, then
replace it with the foam included with your pickups.
6. Put your SD bass pickup into the pickup cavity.
7. Tin the wires from the SD bass pickup, and then solder them
into place.
8. Replace the control plate.
9. Re-string your bass, and adjust the pickups so they are set
about 3/16” from the strings when they are pressed down at
the highest fret on the neck.
Tip (hot output)
Output Jack
Volume
250k
Ground wire from bridge
Tone
250k
Sleeve (ground).
The inner, circular
portion of the jack
Solder
.047
cap
Solder
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Wiring for 5 String Quarter-Pound for P-Bass
®
White
Shield
Congratulations on your purchase of a fine, hand-built,
Seymour Duncan bass guitar pickup! Installing this pickup
in your bass isn’t rocket science. And, if you’re already handy
with tools, it’ll be a snap for you,and fun too! But if you have
no experience handling red-hot soldering irons, you’d be
well advised to take your new pickup and your trusty
bass to a qualified guitar tech.
