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
  • Fender N4 noiseless pickup wire color codes

    VINTAGE / THREE WIRE

    • Hot = White
    • Ground = Black
    • Sheild Ground = Green / Yellow - Send to spare ground slot
  • Fender N4 noiseless pickup wire color codes

    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 pickup wire color code

    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 pickup wire color codes

    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'.

  • Seymour Duncan pickup wire color code

    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 pickup wire color codes

    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 pickup wire color codes

    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 pickup color codes

    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 pickup wire color codes

    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 pickup wire color codes

    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 pickup wire color codes

    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 pickup wire color codes

    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 pickup wire color codes

    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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