CARVIN PICKUP WIRING INSTRUCTIONS TOP COIL A

LOCATING PICKUPS ON THE GUITAR

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.
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DRILLING PICKUP WIRE HOLE W

If you are mounting the pickup directly on a wood body, you must drill a hole for the pick-
up wire. Use a 3/16 or 1/4 drill bit. If you have to drill through more than 2 of wood, B

G
you should use a special 12 long drill bit, which is available at most hardware stores. BOTTOM COIL B RED and WHITE wires: Coil A
BLACK and GREEN wires: Coil B

PICKUP WIRING
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 dont 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.
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.

WIRING THE CONTROLS Fig 1. Coil A on in single coil mode.

GRN
If you are using one of the Carvin circuits, just follow the desired wiring diagram. You PICKUP
WHT
should install a ground wire that runs from the tailpiece or bridge to the control area. Solder BL
K SERIES/PARALELL
G
RED W
this ground wire to the back of one of the potentiometers. Be careful not to use excessive S3 R

LD
SHIE
heat when soldering to the potentiometers or switches as you may damage them.

PHASE SWITCH WIRING TO HOT TO VOLUME TO B HOT OUT

GROUND OR SELECTOR SW. GROUND
A phase switch can be wired into any two or three pickup guitar. As the diagram below
TO
shows, only one pickup is hooked up to the phase switch. The phase switch will only Fig 2. Coil B on in single coil mode.
function when another pickup is used in conjunction with the pickup that is switched out GRN
PICKUP G HOT OUT
of phase. The phase switch will give a nasal muted type sound with slightly less output. WHT
RE
D
BLK S3

LD
HOT OUTPUT

SHIE
TO VOLUME W BLK & SHLD
PHASE SWITCH WIRING OR SELECTOR to GRND R
SERIES/SPLIT/PHASED
W TO GROUND ON/ON/ON
G
PICKUP Fig 3. This wiring gives you three different sounds.
RED
1. Top single coil, 2. dual coil humbucking or 3. bottom single coil.
BLK
S3 (As used on the TL60-33 circuit)
LD

S2
SHIE

HOT OUTPUT
PICKUP RED
TO VOLUME
OR SELECTOR
HOT OUTPUT WHT
TO TO VOLUME TO GRN
SHIELD BLK TO
GROUND OR SELECTOR GROUND GROUND

KIT 30 KIT 40
Single pickup guitar with volume, tone & coil splitter. 2 Pickup guitar with a 3-way pickup selector, 1 volume & 1 tone
PICKUP NECK RE S1
D
WHT Dual PICKUP
Single
BL

BL RED
BRIDGE
K

K R ED
D L

P2 PICKUP BL
SHIE

K
P1
TONE
SH

VOL C1
IEL

GND
D

S3 P1
VOL GND
C1
L11 P2
JACK TONE
L11
JACK

KIT 40 DC127 (includes 2 coil splitters) TL60-33

For 2 Pickup guitar. (Used on the Carvin DC127 model) For 2 Pickup guitar. With 3-way Pickup Selector (S4) & 3-way Coil Splitter Switch (S2).
BRID UP
BR ICK

PICK
PICKU
NECK P
NE CKU

P
ID UP
PI

GE

GE
CK P

Dual Dual
S

Single W Single
B
R

W
RB
W
S

B R
R

S2
B

P1 P2 Single
VOL P1 TONE Dual
S3 S3 VOL Single
S1
SHIELD

C1
SHIELD

C1 P2
TONE
GND
GND

L11 S4
JACK SWITCH L11
76-00015 JACK
 KIT 50 Kit 50 with 5-way Pickup Selector
3 Pickup guitar with 3 ON/OFF switches. (Used on the Carvin DC135 model) 3 Pickup guitar with S5 switch. (Used on DC135 with 26 option)
MIDDLE BRIDGE PICKUP

BRID UP
NECK PICKUP

PICK

MIDDUP
PICK
PICKUP

PICKU
NECK P
R

GE
RE ED

RE
D

LE
D
R P2
BS
P1 R
P1 BS TONE
VOL

SH
SH

SH
RB
BLK
VOL S3 S3 S3

IEL
S C1
IEL

I EL

D
D
D

BL
K

BL
K
C1
P2
TONE GND GND

S5
SWITCH
L11
L11
JACK JACK

Use these templates to route for Carvin pickups. Templates are exact size.

S60 & H60 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 7/16" 1" DEEP
1 1/2"

3 5/32"
3 5/16"

H50N Routing Template 5/64" DRILL 1/2" DEEP

ROUT 9/16" DEEP

1 7/32" 15/16"
13/16"

1 9/16"

3 3/4"