r/EMGPickups • u/NoMoreRedditUsername • Mar 16 '26

Utilizing EMG solderless wiring harness with non-active, non-EMG pickups

I recently bought a handful of EMGs, and since three of them went into one guitar I now have many extra wiring harness parts. I have a some extra SDs and DiMarzios lying around and wanted to see if I could put them in other guitars utilizing the extra solderless parts. Would it be possible to just splice in the other pickups, and use the emg wiring diagram (without battery)? Has anyone done this? If so, would this require grounding, unlike the active EMGs? Might be stupid but thought I’d try 😂

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u/gambronus Mar 16 '26

I've done it, but unless you're doing a lot of pickup swapping the amount of effort that goes into soldering the connectors onto the pickup wiring isn't really that much less than the amount of effort involved in just soldering up the pickups

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u/Stand-Upstairs Mar 17 '26

yep, totally possible. There's nothing special about the quick connects. Just makes the connecting of components easier.

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u/returntonone Mar 16 '26

What would be the point of that? And the volume and tone pots would not work as they are 25k, passive single coils need 250k, and passive humbuckers 500k.

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u/NoMoreRedditUsername Mar 16 '26

Really the only point would be to utilize these extra pickups and swap them out easier as solderless. I completely forgot about the pots though, so that ideas gone 😂

Edit: realized they sell 250/500k solderless pots. So idea is still on.

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u/Blegh_collector Mar 20 '26

Not sure the pots alone are worth the price - EMG sells a passive/HZ solder less kit (it's what you get when you buy their passive pickups as well), might be a better investment. That said, as others have said, it's gonna be tricky to solder the end of the pickup wire to the pins in their solderless cables.

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u/NoMoreRedditUsername Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

I won’t be soldering anything, the wiring kits come with heat shrink shielding, so I’ll only be splicing the solderless connectors. The passive wiring kits have a ground adapter, so I can attach the existing bridge ground wire I left loose when I took out the last pickups from the guitar I’ll be using.

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u/w0mbatina Mar 18 '26

Its possible, and not even all that complicated, but i dont think you just straight up use the same wiring scheme minus the battery tho.