Hi folks, I'm new here, and I've been having some problem with my pick ups lately. I built a new guitar for myself recently and I've always been a Dimazrio fan, so I got some for this new guitar of mine.

Its a H-S-H deal, Gravity Storm in the bridge, Red velvet in the middle, and a FRED in the neck, damn tasty...or so I want it to be!

So the wiring I went with is the Guthrie Govan's wiring:

Pos 1: B Hb
Pos 2: B + M
Pos 3: outercoils of both Hb's
Pos 4: M + N
Pos 5: N Hb

There is also a DPDT switch that dumps some of the Hb's through a R/C to ground which sounds more like single coils than a fill Hb's split/tap.

Now as per the diagram I followed, GG's pickups use the same wiring code as Dimarzio pickups. Green + Bare to ground, White + Black together, for the split and Red to hot.

Following that diagram, I just recently discovered that the bridge was out of phase with the middle. So I wired up the bridge to be, as per someone on the web's advice, Black + Bare to ground, Red + Green for the split and White for the hot. But now, I feel like position 2 and 4 are out of phase. And I also think the bridge pick up sounds...different to how I expected. In my last guitar I had that same pick up a Gravity Storm in the bridge and suspended in a pick guard in an alder body guitar. So perhaps that's where the difference in sound is, but my other worry was that maybe, in wiring it this alternative way, I've wired the pickup in parallel, as opposed to series? Again I'm unsure here.
My new guitar is again, an alder body, but this time with a maple cap, no pick guard, as they are directly mounted to the body.

It might be worth while mentioning that my last guitar had 2 Gravity Storms, one in the neck and bridge, with a fast track in the middle, all Hb's!

So my question(s) are, what do I do to not get a phasing issue in position 2 and 4, do I need to live with that? Is it possible for me to solder the Black of the Red velvet to hot, and the white to ground? Or will that lead to it being out of phase with the neck pickup? Also I assumed since all are Dimarzio pick ups, they were gonna play nice together... perhaps rookie mistake.



Sorry for the long post, but I've been wracking my brains trying to sort this one. And there were many a' time when I wanted to launch the damn guitar oot the window.

Thanks for reading, any suggestions/criticisms, I'm ready to learn!