Seymour Duncan SPB-3 Instructions

Wiring Diagram for

Pickup Models:

Congratulations on your purchase of a ﬁne, hand-built, Basslines bass guitar pickup! Installing this pickup in your bass isn’t rocket science. And, if you’re already handy with tools, it’ll be a snap for you–and fun too! But if you have no experience handling red-hot soldering irons, you’d be well advised to take your new pickup and your trusty bass to a qualiﬁed guitar tech.

SPB-1 Vintage for

SPB-2 Hot for

SPB-3 Quarter-Pound for

5427 hollister avenue, santa barbara, ca 93111

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www.basslines.com

P-Bass

Fig. 1

The basic steps for installation include:

1. Remove the strings from your bass.

2. Remove the control plate and ﬂip it over.

3. De-solder the original pickup’s wires from the controls and make sure to remember where they were connected.

4. Remove the pickup from the pickup cavity.

5. Put your Basslines pickup into the pickup cavity.

6. Tin the wires from the Basslines pickup, and then solder them into place. (see Fig. 1)

7. Replace the control plate (and pickup cover).

8. Re-string your bass, and adjust the pickup so that it is set about 1/8” from the strings when they are pressed down at the highest fret on the neck.

P-Bass and Fender are registered trademarks of FMIC, with which Basslines is not afﬁliated.

Wiring Diagram for

P/J Bass:

SPB-1 Vintage for

SPB-2 Hot for

SPB-3 Quarter-Pound for

SJB-1b Vintage for

Jazz Bass

SJB-2b Hot for

Jazz Bass

SJB-3b Quarter-Pound for

Jazz Bass

P-Bass

If two pickups sound thin and wimpy when used together, chances are, they’re out of phase with each other. If you’re combining your Basslines pickup(s) with Fender® pickup(s) in the same bass, you’ll need to reverse the black and white wires on the Basslines. In other words, solder the white wire to ground and the black wire to the selector switch.

For real-time peer-to-peer tech support, consult the gurus on the Seymour Duncan User Group Forum. Also, check out the specialty wiring

diagrams available for free on our site.

We’re not just pickups anymore. Seymour Duncan also makes super cool stomp boxes.

P/N 501030-100 Rev. C

And our sister company, D-TAR, is turning out some really hip products for

serious acoustic guitarists (d-tar.com).

Visit basslines.com for additional wiring diagrams.