Pickup Color Codes

Find pickup wire color codes for different pickup builders

Get Your New Pickups Installed - A Pickup Wiring Guide

Below you will find wiring info, and pickup color codes for the worlds most popular pickup builders.

Find wiring color codes for

Single Coils
Seymour Duncan
Lollar
Tonerider
Gibson
Epiphone
Dimarzio
Mojotone
Fender
Barenuckle
Suhr

If your pickup builder is not included below, please check with the manufacturers install instructions.

Our Included 'Technical Terms' guide may also help you work out which wire is which. e.g 'North Start' is often a term used for the 'Hot' wire.

Single Coil Pickups

VINTAGE / TWO WIRE
- Hot = White / Yellow
- Ground = Black
VINTAGE / THREE WIRE
- Hot = White
- Ground = Black
- Sheild Ground = Green / Yellow - Send to spare ground slot
FENDER N4 & ULTRA NOISELESS
- Hot = White / Blue / Red
- Ground = Black
- Sheild Ground = Green - Send to spare ground slot

Humbucker Colour Codes

FOUR WIRE - TECHNICAL TERMS
- Hot = North Start
- Ground = South Start
- Series 1 = North Finish
- Series 2 = South Finish
- Bare Pickup Ground = Bare Wire
To use humbuckers in single coil slots: Solder two 'series split' wires together, and tape them off so they do not ground out on anything. Send 'bare' wire to a spare ground slot, and use 'Hot' and 'Ground' wires as usual.
TWO WIRE
- Hot = Inner Core
- Ground = Outer Braid / Bare Wire

Seymour Duncan, Lollar & Tonerider

SEYMOUR DUNCAN
- Hot = Black
- Ground = Green
- Series 1 = White
- Series 2 = Red
- Bare Pickup Ground = Bare
To use in Single coil slots: Solder 'red and white' wires together, and tape them off so they do not ground out on anything.

Send 'bare' wire to a spare ground slot, and use 'hot = black' and 'ground = green'.
TONERIDER
- Hot = Red
- Ground = Green
- Series 1 = Black
- Series 2 = White
- Bare Pickup Ground = Bare
To use in Single coil slots: Solder 'black and white' wires together, and tape them off so they do not ground out on anything.

Send 'bare' wire to a spare ground slot, and use 'hot = red' and 'ground = green'.
LOLLAR
- Hot = Black
- Ground = Green
- Series 1 = White
- Series 2 = Red
- Bare Pickup Ground = Bare
To use in Single coil slots: Solder 'red and white' wires together, and tape them off so they do not ground out on anything.

Send 'bare' wire to a spare ground slot, and use 'hot = black' and 'ground = green'.

Gibson, Ephiphone & Dimarzio

GIBSON & EPIPHONE
- Hot = Red
- Ground = Black
- Series 1 = White
- Series 2 = Green
- Bare Pickup Ground = Bare
To use in Single coil slots: Solder 'green and white' wires together, and tape them off so they do not ground out on anything.

Send 'bare' wire to a spare ground slot, and use 'hot = red' and 'ground = black'.
DIMARZIO
- Hot = Red
- Ground = Green
- Series 1 = Black
- Series 2 = White
- Bare Pickup Ground = Bare
To use in Single coil slots: Solder 'black and white' wires together, and tape them off so they do not ground out on anything.

Send 'bare' wire to a spare ground slot, and use 'hot = red' and 'ground = green'.

Mojotone & Fender

FENDER
- Hot = Green
- Ground = Red
- Series 1 = White
- Series 2 = Black
- Bare Pickup Ground = Bare
To use in Single coil slots: Solder 'black & white' wires together, and tape them off so they do not ground out on anything.

Send 'bare' wire to a spare ground slot, and use 'hot = green' and 'ground = red'.
MOJOTONE
- Hot = Black
- Ground = Green
- Series 1 = White
- Series 2 = Red
- Bare Pickup Ground = Bare
To use in Single coil slots: Solder 'red and white' wires together, and tape them off so they do not ground out on anything.

Send 'bare' wire to a spare ground slot, and use 'hot = black' and 'ground = green'.

Bareknuckle & Suhr

BAREKNUCKLE
- Hot = Red
- Ground = Black
- Series 1 = White
- Series 2 = Green
- Bare Pickup Ground = Bare
To use in Single coil slots: Solder 'green and white' wires together, and tape them off so they do not ground out on anything.
Send 'bare' wire to a spare ground slot, and use 'hot = red' and 'ground = black'.
SUHR
- Hot = Black
- Ground = Green
- Series 1 = White
- Series 2 = Red
- Bare Pickup Ground = Bare
To use in Single coil slots: Solder 'red and white' wires together, and tape them off so they do not ground out on anything.
Send 'bare' wire to a spare ground slot, and use 'hot = black' and 'ground = green'.

GFS & PRS

PRS
- Hot = Black
- Ground = White
- Series 1 = Red
- Series 2 = NONE
- Bare Pickup Ground = Bare
To use in Single coil slots: Tape off 'red' so it does not ground out on anything. Do not insert to harness.
Send 'bare' wire to a spare ground slot, and use 'hot = black' and 'ground = white'.
GFS
- Hot = Green
- Ground = Black
- Series 1 = White
- Series 2 = Red
- Bare Pickup Ground = Bare
To use in Single coil slots: Solder 'red & white' wires together, and tape them off so they do not ground out on anything.
Send 'bare' wire to a spare ground slot, and use 'hot = green' and 'ground = black'.

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