Pickup
Color Codes
Find pickup wire color codes for different pickup builders
Pickup Color Codes
Pickup
Time to get your new pickups installed..
Below you will find wiring info, and pickup colour codes for the worlds most popular pickup builders.
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 & 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'.
Gibson, Epiphone & 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
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'.
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'.
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
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'.
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'.
