DiMarzio Super Distortion???

[gtrman59]

Hi, I have an old DiMarzio Super distortion pickup, it has a black wire, a white wire and a bare wire....I know the bare wire is the ground. someone hooked the bare and the white wires together and had the black as the hot....is this correct or does the black and white go together? Thanks...

 

[gtrman59]

I have an old DiMarzio Super Distortion pickup. it has a black wire , a white wire and a bare wire. I know the bare wire is the ground. Someone hand the white wire with the ground and the black wire as the hot.Is this correct or does the white go with the black? Thanks...

 

[BKS]

I always look at this...

 

[cooljuk]

I have an old DiMarzio Super Distortion pickup. it has a black wire , a white wire and a bare wire. I know the bare wire is the ground. Someone hand the white wire with the ground and the black wire as the hot.Is this correct or does the white go with the black? Thanks...

Sounds like you have a Dual Sound, and not a Super Distortion. A Dual Sound has a ground, a shield, and a center tap. That chart above won't do you any good. It doesn't apply to 70's DiMarzios with less than four leads.

 

[flatrockmobile]

Help. Dimarzio Super D wiring....

Guys, just got my '82 Dimarzio Super Distortion in the mail. can someone tell me how to wire it up? I assume the white goes to the lug, and the black and ground go to the top of the pot (correct?). There is also a short ground coming off of the back of the pup under a screw. Where does it go...

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[BKS]

dual sound 3-wire hell

Hi Kidz! :wave: After frittering away a good 45 minutes searching MLP; the DiMarzio forum; DiMarzio's home page; and the WWW in general, using all the different search strings I can think of (yes, I'm saying all this to avoid another one of River's lectures about wasting people's time), I have...

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[BadPenguin]

I have an old DiMarzio Super Distortion pickup. it has a black wire , a white wire and a bare wire. I know the bare wire is the ground. Someone hand the white wire with the ground and the black wire as the hot.Is this correct or does the white go with the black? Thanks...

No, you have a Dual Sound. it's a ground wire, the bare one, and a white and a black. Now pay attention here it get's tricky. Either wire is hot, depending on the phase of the other pickup. It originally came with a 2 way on/on switch to switch phase. You know, that thin nasally sound from the 70's? So what to do? Simple: wire the white to hot, black to ground with the bare wire. Then play the guitar with both the neck and bridge pickup on. Sounds normal, you're done. Thin and basally sounding? Simply switch the black and white wire. Have fun!