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Advanced Pickup Wiring Guide - Ibanez Specific

This thread is for configurations that do not have wiring diagrams readily available.

Hum-Hum-Hum (Dimarzio)

If there is humcancelling pickup like a Virtual Vintage® model in the middle position, it becomes necessary to turn off the bottom coil of the middle pickup as well as one coil from the outside humbucker. This can't be accomplished with a standard 5-way selector switch. The diagram shows how to do this with a multipole 5-way (VLX91) Ibanez Part# 3PS1VLX91








The stacked middle pickup will be split and shared in positions 2 and 4. It will be full, dedicated, humbucking in position 3.

Bridge and neck will be full, dedicated, humbucking in positions 1 and 5.


Quite a few Ibanez guitars will use a standard 5-way switch. It looks like this...



In order to have the switch work as it does with a standard middle single coil pickup, you need to replace the switch with Ibanez Part# 3PS1VLX91. It look like this...




Here is the pin assignment for the VLX91, in case you want to know how the switch works with the wiring diagram.




As a reference, here is a typical Ibanez H-S-H setup with a standard 5-way switch diagram....




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Hum-Hum (Duncan) with an Ibanez 3 position, 12 terminal switch. (Ibanez Part# 3SW1JPM3T)


This switch is like having two DPDT switches in one switch. It looks like this...


Ibanez Part# 3SW1JPM3T


Below is a modified Ibanez wiring diagram...




As a reference, here is a unmodified Ibanez H-H diagram with a 12 terminal, 3 position switch....



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Ibanez Designed By EMG (Hum-Hum) 5-way switch mod....

Modified diagram with 5-way switch




Original Ibanez wiring diagram




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DT200 V7, V8 Pickup Conversion

Modified Diagram...





Ibanez V7....






Original Ibanez Diagram




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V7, V8 to Swinhead Pickup Conversion

Note : Green = Green and Shield


Swinehead colors...





Swinehead Coil split..





Dimarzio colors...




Iceman - X2N in the bridge and a Norton for the neck pickup

1 volume, 1 tone, H-H, 3way switch (bridge, bridge and neck, neck) w/push-pull for coil tap.













Push-pull for inner or outer coils.....

SA1260 - Dimebucker (Bridge) and Hotrail (Neck) with stock switch.

Original Ibanez wiring diagram...