I bought a Seymour Duncan Invader to fit into my SG Standard and was dumbfounded when I opened it up and saw the quick connect system. After hours of googling and finding nothing helpful I checked KZfaq and found this video. It literally saved the day, I could't believe i'd found a video for my exact situation. Excellent to have the detail for the wiring, I would have screwed it up majorly if not for that information. Thank you from Australia my friend! Liked, subscribed and i'll be watching through the rest of your stuff for sure.

Thank you, sir! I told a friend that I would glady change the pups in his Les Paul for him. I'm a luthier and no stranger to guitar wiring, but when I opened up the electronics cavity and saw a bunch of plugs and circuit boards...I thought this was the best way to handle it, but I'm happy to see someone else who had done it. This is a great video, and I'm glad I found it.

I firstly found the seymore Duncan page about changing the pick ups in a newer sg,using the quick connectors, it actually tells you to use the same colour wires and connect same for same, except the yellow being earth! FFS! Did that and I wish I’d seen your video first ! Now I’m stripping my sg out again!

Life saver! I'm playing for church this Sunday and I've recently found out my pickups were incorrectly wired. THANK YOU.

I bought a dave mustaine thrash factor and installed it like you would think color to color. Sounds like my les paul is a twangy telecaster. Was about to send it back and reinstall my stock pickups. Glad it's just a color coding issue. Gonna do this as soon as I get home. Thank you and praying it works out. Got band practice tomorrow and been bragging about my new pickups lol Update. Works amazing and just like it should. Thank you so much for saving me the time and energy of trial and error

Thanks for this tutorial! I recently put a seymour jb into my gibson tribute with the quick connect. I assumed red was hot and black was ground on the seymour. It still works when connected this way, but not nearly as much output as it should have. After watching your video, I switched it to the proper way you mention and it works just fine now!

This is helpful. There's a guy here in the U.S. that's selling pre-wired plugs for the Gibson PCB. He'll color-code the plug wires for whichever brand pickup you'd want to install. Gibson probably devised this system to keep players from straying outside of the Gibson "family". Like a cult.

Finally, someone who gets the colours correct! Important to note that with Gibson quick connect the wires in the bridge connector go to different pins than on the neck connector for some bizarre reason only known to Gibson!

I'm planning to change the pickups to my Gibson SG Standard Traditional 2016, huge thanks for this! This vid gave a lot.

The first time I did a Seymour Duncan swap on a Gibson with quick connect it was quite the adventure. I sat there like an idiot for a while looking ant colors and getting all flustered. To make it more complicated, I went all crazy with push pulls for phase reversal and coil splitting. I wish I had done something as neat as this. This is very satisfying to look at.

Want to say a huge thank you for this video, bought Lace Dirty Heshers was a bit bamboozled until I watched this.

This was extremely helpful. I had no idea how to go about this before. Thank you!

Cheers dude, big help, i replaced many pups with conventional p-p wiring but panic set in when faced with this on my 2015 les paul DC, having already purchaced a new SD custom soapbar pup, many thanks.

Thank you so much for this! Wanted to put some JBs in my 2016 Studio and was a bit unsettled by the printed circuit board.

Had this exact problem yesterday! Wired it incorrectly and fixed it today after seeing this haha. Cheers mate!

Thank you!! This was what I was looking for. I’m switching to Black Winters in my 2016 LP studio. I had no idea what to do!

Great video, simple and straightforward. Thank you!

Sir brilliant video ,bloody brilliant . You have given hope to us and this shows the value add of youtube.I did this mod in < 30 min. Thank you!

Thanks dude. I have found how frustrating this can be.

Brilliant vid thanks for taking the time to do this !!!

This video was such a lifesaver thank you very much!

Great video, super helpful. Well done. Cheers!

The exact tutorial I was after - cheers 👍

Thanks for the vid !!!! Big help on a PUP swap !!

Thank you so much for posting this!

Cheers dude for sharing your knowledge

Great Vid. Very Helpful. Cheers Mate

Thanks for this. I am doing the same mod here. I was thinking of just disconnecting the connectors, and Gibson 61 Zebras, and just soldering the Seymours directly to the Lugs on the 2 Volume pots bypassing the connectors all together. I can wire the Duncans Green/ground directly to the ground clip on the circuit board

Thank You. Nicely informative video.

Thank you so much for this video my brother

Thx colour scheme very helpful!

I just performed this surgery on my 2020 Les Paul Tribute. Unfortunately, all Gibson PCB's don't always play nice with after market pickups. I got tons of squeal, hum and general unhappiness. I pulled out the whole lot and replaced with CTS pots and orange drops. Like God intended...

Thanks Mate for posting.

Thank you sir!! Really helpful!!

For some reason, connect my seymour pickups, to my les paul epi with pushpull, following the colors of the wiring, but when raising the pots grab some ground noise, although I have reviewed many times I have not been able to solve this problem

this is very helpful thanks a lot, Cheers

If you wanted to put the Quick connect adapter the burstbucker, braided shield pickups, what would you do? Killer channel, cheers!

Scrinia Enginering sells a quick connect adapter on Reverb.com for $40.00 that will do that without having to solder anything. And it comes with a little screwdriver. Great video Fret Friend

Thanks for sharing the knowledge Victor. I have not seen this solution anywhere else. Question for you: I don’t have that heat shrink band you used. Would electrical tape work? Thank you! Adam

Great video!.. to you think he didn't like the pickups because of how low they were? I can't imagine they'd sound good that low....

Nice. Now I wire a Seymour to my Les paul.

great stuff mate. was the guitar just standard 2 humbucker 3 way toggle, no push pull pots. just because normally you would be soldering 2 wires together from the p/up in the old school way. i'm putting a seymour jb 4 conductor in a les paul with pcb. i bought a pre wired molex adapter on ebay for purpose but wires came loose when plugged in! so thinking doing it this way. cheers pal, sounds like you're a fellow northerner....

Hey 👋🏻 @fretfriendguitarshop would the wiring be the same setup for the neck too? I’m putting the pair of SD Invader’s in until I get a P90 soapbar … Great vid and very helpful .. cheers 🍻 😉

Thanks for the video! 👍👌

Great video! I have a quick question: Normally with thicker wires, I can twist them together before soldering. These wires are so thin and I can't get them to stay together with twisting or tying, even with tweezers. Is it ok to just tin them, then put them really close together and solder them straight just like that?

thanks for this vid..somehow the volume differs..bridge and neck volume are the same..but the volume together is slightly lower

Question, did you wire the plug to the Seymour before mounting it?... Wondering if there was enough room to pull the plug through or, did you have to mount the pickup 1st & solder the connections over the guitar... Thanks...

About to do my first pickup swap, got a 2013 LPJ with the Gibson quick connect and a Seymour Duncan Alnico 2 Pro Slash pickup. The pickup has the single braided cable with the black hot wire on the inside, should it in theory be a case of cutting the quick connect plug off and soldering the Gibson hot to the black SD hot, and the Gibson ground to the SD outer braiding?

you saved the day. thanks

handy video...but just as a thought - would it not be possible to get another molex connector and feed the wires from the SD pickup into the new molex, plug it into the connector and jobs a good 'un?

How does the bare wire connection differ from the others? Do you solder the bare to bare?

Hi I have 2017 gibson sg with them quick connection and was wondering if you could post a video on the wiring diagram for Wilkinson zebra pickups Bridge and neck cheers Paul 🍻

Going to swap my bridge and neck on my epiphone sg which has these blocks and two push pull pots. Putting on some iron gear pickups a hot slag (bridge) and rolling mill pick up (neck), bugger need to source the wire codes myself now seeing as it's not straight forward, is the epiphone wiring standard for what they do? or do I need to find the specific epiphone sg wiring diagram for this guitar? I can't seem to find the wire diagram via google I can get the iron gear diagram easy enough off of their site

Thank you! Followed this guide to install a Nazgul / Sentient pair on an Gibson SG Special 2015 and it worked. Kept the original knobs, so the pickup split function has been lost. Does anyone know what kind of split knobs would be suitable for this switch? I have two such knobs but they did not seem to match the size and shape of the original Gibson knobs, so I was reluctant to remove them from the pcb board only to find out that the ones I have do not match. Liked and subscribed! Thanks again!

Sweet video dude. Just bought some Seymours and took the back off my LP to see quick connectors. It's the old black ones (2012), would they work the same as the white ones do you know?

Good on ya lad!

i got a problem with my guitar pick up got prs 24 custom , put a new pup in the neck position, and for the life of me i caunt get it work in just the neck position, it as coil tap ton knob that fine, bridge and neck position is fine, but when i switch to just neck position , its dead and heres the thing the bridge pick up is still working,,,,, its doing my head in, i found out the pup i took out as 5 wires its a g & b, the one iv installed only as 4 wires, if that as any thing to with, any advice or help would greatly appreciated Thank You, Cheers

THANK YOU!

Nice. What would it take to add a 3rd pickup to that circuit board?

Gibson's color wires are the same for epiphone???? cause i wanna change my epiphone pickups for a seymour duncan pickups, fitting the quick connectors to them..

I would like to Seemour from ya! Greetin from Sweden!

You can buy the quick connectors on eBay for £7 for the 2 wiring looms with heat shrink. Just no wiring diagram.

hello, great channel, im greatful you're able to covey so much technical information to a layman. this may be too crazy to work but. i have an ibanez electric acoustic bass with the fishman AE6, "magnetic" i guess pickups. the neck is fucked, and i want to take the preamp and, whatever else, everything but the magnetic pickup, and stick it into a nylon string acoustic with a simple non powered piazo pickup in her. Is this the fevered ramblings of a madman? or actually possible? basically replacing a magnetic pickup with a piazo pickup on a fishman AE6 electric acoustic. My performing has been taking off, but just that non-pre-amped piazo is hell for the sound people, and even with a sound hole cover its kickin up quite a bit of feedback and no way to correct it from the guitfiddle. thank you for your time and the wonderful show! i understand if this is more of an electric crowd, i havent found an answerer with certainty yet.

Little help please, a have an ibanez Humbucker pickup with 3 wires, black, white and red. How can i to convert this pickup to 2 wires, like a standard gibson LP pickup?

do you think it would be ok to use electrical tape instead of heat shrink wrap?

Do you happen to have/ know the wiring connection for a Dimarzio Super D

Would this apply to Epiphone wiring as well? I have a JB I want to put in my LP Custom Pro

I can't see any colour wires on Seymour Duncan Vintage soapbar P90 all I see is a braided cable 🤣 - I need to mod this to a quick connect... How? (Replace the braided cable on the pickup?)

I recently changed my pickups on a 2018 SG can anyone tell me why it sounds like I have single coils in instead of humbuckers? I changed the Gibson 61 pickups for SD whole lotta humbuckers

Hakko Soldering iron is the best I've ever used heats up in under a second Has adjustable heat to

THANK YOU..........

There is an easier way and you don't have to cut off the mini connector (which makes the mod completely reversable). Disconnect the old Gibson pickups, then, using a multimeter, buzz out the pickup PCB connector to the associated PCB pads. After working out the appropriate colour code transpositions, solder the new pickup wiring to the identified solder pads. Just be aware, Gibson use high temperature solder, so you need a very hot iron and get in quickly, not overheating the PCB pad.

Excellent mate thanks. The PCBs are fine, just wish wiring colours were universal. Its dumb. But then so are USBs, an oxymoron as nothing is universal! Type A, B, C micro etc. Don't even mention Apple!

how about pu with single conductor just like slash pu?

Any idea of the wiring for a neck pickup?

Looked at enough vids to tell me you are are doing the least costly way of dealing with those damn Gibson plugs. Others are showing buying additional cables with plugs that act as adaptors and some are expensive enough to say screw it all and rip out all the PCB and just install regular pots with soldered wire. To rip everything out, pots, wires toggle and input jack is around $150! I already have a solder iron so just need the heat shrink tubing which is around $10 so thanks for helping avoid a big headache. I hope Gibson abandoned all that PCB crap in their guitars because I think it was a factor as to why Gibson lost some sales in recent years.

What about the two way quick connect that the 2010 les paul have? Same thing? This is what I am talking about: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ia9midaAqbrMY40.html

I don't like the 57 neck pickup.

WTF the pickup I bought just has 1 wire no colors.

I just did this very thing(i'm here cause mine didn't work) and nothing. I think mine has to do with the 3 way toggle being miswired. I wired the 3 way like, green to the single pole, red, black and white to the 3-contact side like some pictures I've seen online.