# DiMarzio Ibanez 2-Humbucker Universal wiring: two humbuckers, Ibanez 5-way switch, volume and tone Canonical page: https://guitarwiring.app/wiring-diagrams/dimarzio/ibanez-two-humbucker-universal-five-way-volume-tone Neck humbucker · Bridge humbucker · Ibanez OEM 5-way (8-lug) · 500K volume · 500K tone · .022µF DiMarzio's standard Ibanez wiring for two humbuckers on the Ibanez OEM HH 5-way switch: position 1 neck, 2 neck parallel, 3 neck and bridge, 4 inside coils, 5 bridge, with a 500K custom-taper volume, a 500K custom-taper tone and a .022µF capacitor. Drawing: https://guitarwiring.app/wiring-diagrams/dimarzio/ibanez-two-humbucker-universal-five-way-volume-tone.svg (back of controls) ## Parts and values - Neck humbucker (stand-in): NECK PICKUP (BARE, GREEN, WHITE, BLACK, RED); generic (Humbucker (four-conductor, DiMarzio colours)) - Bridge humbucker (stand-in): BRIDGE PICKUP (BARE, GREEN, RED, WHITE, BLACK); generic (Humbucker (four-conductor, DiMarzio colours)) - Ibanez OEM 5-way switch: IBANEZ OEM SWITCH; compatible example (Ibanez HH 5-Way (8-lug)) - Volume 500K custom taper: VOLUME 500K CUSTOM TAPER POT EP1201; 500k; compatible example (CTS 500k Audio Pot) - Tone 500K custom taper: TONE 500K CUSTOM TAPER POT EP1201; 500k; compatible example (CTS 500k Audio Pot) - .022µF: .022µF CAPACITOR EP1022; 22nF; compatible example (Orange Drop .022µF) - Output jack: SWITCHCRAFT® OUTPUT JACK (2-CONDUCTOR) EP1301; compatible example (Switchcraft \#11) - Bridge ground: TO BRIDGE GROUND; generic (Bridge ground wire) ## Specific to this wiring - Sheet legend: 'The standard Ibanez wiring for 2 humbuckers. The 5-way Ibanez HH OEM switch is wired Position 1 = Neck; Position 2 = Neck Parallel; Position 3 = Neck & Bridge; Position 4 = Inside Coils; Position 5 = Bridge.' - The switch is labelled 'IBANEZ OEM SWITCH' and is drawn from the side with its 8 lugs in a row. The lugs are numbered 1-8 left to right as drawn; lug 4 (to the volume) and lug 8 are the commons. - Ibanez publishes no contact chart for this switch. Its contacts come from Atheris Pickguards' measured trace map of the opened switch ('Ibanez 3PS1SC5 / COR-TEK 2502N'), which numbers its positions in reverse (its Pos1 = bridge humbucker, Pos5 = neck humbucker). Ibanez's RG2620E factory wiring diagram (RG2620E-CBK-00-02, 2006) wires the 8 lugs with the same roles as this sheet and the map: lug 1 bridge red, lug 2 a neck lead jumpered to lug 7, lug 3 neck red, lug 4 to the volume, lug 5 the bridge series link, lug 6 ground, lug 8 neck black. - Lug orientation check: with lugs 1-8 read left to right as drawn, the engine reproduces the legend in all five positions. Read in the reverse order, the volume lug would not be a common and the legend fails in every position, so the drawn left-to-right order is the one used. - The neck pickup is wired with its RED to lug 3, WHITE to lug 2, BLACK to lug 8, and GREEN and BARE to the volume casing. A white jumper joins lug 2 to lug 7. - The bridge pickup is wired with its RED to lug 1, its BLACK and WHITE together to lug 5, and its GREEN and BARE to the volume casing. Lug 6 is wired to the volume casing. - The volume's top lug is wired to the volume casing and on to the tone casing, which is drawn to a ground symbol. The tone's signal enters at its middle lug from the volume's bottom (input) lug; the capacitor sits between the tone's bottom lug and the tone casing. The tone's top lug is drawn unconnected. - The output jack is a 'SWITCHCRAFT® OUTPUT JACK (2-CONDUCTOR) EP1301'. 'TO BRIDGE GROUND' ends on the jack sleeve, which also takes the wire from the tone casing. - The sheet labels the pickups only 'NECK PICKUP' and 'BRIDGE PICKUP'; a generic DiMarzio-colour four-conductor humbucker stands in for each. ## Connections 1. Neck BARE → Volume casing (case, bare) 2. Neck GREEN → Volume casing (case, green): Dot beside the neck BARE. 3. Bridge BARE → Volume casing (case, bare) 4. Bridge GREEN → Volume casing (case, green): Dot below the bridge BARE. 5. Switch lug 6 → Volume casing (case, black) 6. Volume casing → Volume top lug (case, black) 7. Volume top lug → Tone casing (case, black): The tone casing dot is also drawn to a ground symbol. 8. .022µF capacitor → Tone casing (case) 9. Tone casing → Jack sleeve (wire, black) 10. TO BRIDGE GROUND → Jack sleeve (wire, black) 11. Neck WHITE → Switch lug 2 (wire, white): Drawn broken where the bridge GREEN and bridge RED pass. 12. Neck RED → Switch lug 3 (wire, red): Drawn broken where the bridge GREEN and bridge RED pass. 13. Neck BLACK → Switch lug 8 (wire, black): Drawn broken where the bridge GREEN and bridge RED pass; runs below the switch and up into lug 8. 14. Bridge RED → Switch lug 1 (wire, red) 15. Bridge WHITE → Switch lug 5 (wire, white): Drawn broken where it passes the lug 2-7 jumper and the neck BLACK run. 16. Bridge BLACK → Switch lug 5 (wire, black): Runs beside the bridge WHITE; drawn broken at the same two places. 17. Switch lug 2 → Switch lug 7 (wire, white): Jumper. 18. Switch lug 4 → Volume bottom lug (wire, gray): Drawn light gray. 19. Volume middle lug → Jack tip (wire, gray): Drawn dark gray. 20. Volume bottom lug → Tone middle lug (wire, gray): Drawn light gray. 21. Tone bottom lug → .022µF capacitor (wire) ## What each position does - Position 1: neck: Neck humbucker (stand-in) (both coils). Source: Position 1 = Neck - Position 2: neck parallel: Neck humbucker (stand-in) (coils in parallel). Source: Position 2 = Neck Parallel - Position 3: neck & bridge: Neck humbucker (stand-in) (both coils) and Bridge humbucker (stand-in) (both coils) in parallel. Source: Position 3 = Neck & Bridge - Position 4: inside coils: Neck humbucker (stand-in) (split to one coil) and Bridge humbucker (stand-in) (split to one coil) in parallel. Source: Position 4 = Inside Coils - Position 5: bridge: Bridge humbucker (stand-in) (both coils). Source: Position 5 = Bridge - Topology only, because the switch contacts come from a third-party trace map rather than an Ibanez chart (see below). The selector carries the printed legend as selectorByPosition (1 neck, 2 neck parallel, 3 neck and bridge, 4 inside coils, 5 bridge), and the engine matches it in all five positions: 1 neck humbucker; 2 neck coils in parallel; 3 both humbuckers in parallel; 4 one neck coil and one bridge coil in parallel; 5 bridge humbucker. - The switch contacts come from a third-party measured trace map (Atheris Pickguards, Ibanez 3PS1SC5 / COR-TEK 2502N), cross-checked against the lug roles on Ibanez's RG2620E factory diagram; Ibanez publishes no contact chart. - Which coil is 'inside' is not modelled: in position 4 the engine keeps the neck's white/green coil and the bridge's red/black coil; the stand-ins do not record which coil sits nearer the other pickup. - The source's custom-taper pots are not reproduced: both pots use the catalog pot's taper, so settings between the knob ends are approximate. - Both pickups are generic four-conductor humbuckers; hum and tone describe the generic model, and pickup resistance is not specified, so no numeric meter readings are given. ## Check before plugging in - Position 1: continuity from jack tip to sleeve through the whole neck humbucker only. - Position 2: the neck's two coils in parallel between tip and sleeve (lower reading than position 1). - Position 3: both humbuckers in parallel. - Position 4: one coil of each pickup in parallel. - Position 5: continuity through the whole bridge humbucker only. - With the volume at zero, tip and sleeve read as a short in every position. ## Source Tinkercaster's own drawing of the DiMarzio diagram HH Wiring - Ibanez 2-Humbucker Universal, revision 2. Not the manufacturer's artwork and not endorsed by DiMarzio. See also [all wiring diagrams]().