Bonjour!
Decided to upgrade the old guitar and put some snazzy seymour duncans in and two push/pull pots for coil tapping and upgraded the 3 way toggles switch for a nice switchcraft one
Printed out the seymour duncan wiring diagram for 2 humbuckers, 1 vol,1 tone 3 way swich and 2 push/pulls.
Wired it exactly as the diagram, beauty with the guitar being direct mount no scratchplate to remove so I can wire everything with the guitar on its side and put in a few strings to test it
However, after checking about 6 times I plugged in the guitar - nothing - forgot to increase the volume - doh! Started to increase the volume, total silence then at about 5 suddenly a loud audible buzz then as I went past 5 silence...
?????
Looked at the wiring diagram again, matched the guitar, very confused... then wondered why in a dual coil tap system you would take BOTH outputs of the switch into the tone control???!!??
Took the bridge output to the 3rd tone pot lug (diagram shows the pot facing the volume pot with volune pot lug 1 direct wired to lug 3 on tone pot) put ther neck output to lug 1 on the volume left the direct connect between lug 3 and lug 1 - et voila! Sound and fully working coil taps !
But (nnoooooo) there is a truly hideous loud continous buzz, double checked all the earths and the earthing wiring in the diagram it matches plus plugging the guitar in the computer each pickups sounded like with was slightly flanged??
The two questions that come to mind are:
1 : What on earth is causing the humbuckers to really really hum not matter the switch is??
2 : Why didn't the wiring diagram work??
Decided to upgrade the old guitar and put some snazzy seymour duncans in and two push/pull pots for coil tapping and upgraded the 3 way toggles switch for a nice switchcraft one
Printed out the seymour duncan wiring diagram for 2 humbuckers, 1 vol,1 tone 3 way swich and 2 push/pulls.
Wired it exactly as the diagram, beauty with the guitar being direct mount no scratchplate to remove so I can wire everything with the guitar on its side and put in a few strings to test it
However, after checking about 6 times I plugged in the guitar - nothing - forgot to increase the volume - doh! Started to increase the volume, total silence then at about 5 suddenly a loud audible buzz then as I went past 5 silence...
?????
Looked at the wiring diagram again, matched the guitar, very confused... then wondered why in a dual coil tap system you would take BOTH outputs of the switch into the tone control???!!??
Took the bridge output to the 3rd tone pot lug (diagram shows the pot facing the volume pot with volune pot lug 1 direct wired to lug 3 on tone pot) put ther neck output to lug 1 on the volume left the direct connect between lug 3 and lug 1 - et voila! Sound and fully working coil taps !
But (nnoooooo) there is a truly hideous loud continous buzz, double checked all the earths and the earthing wiring in the diagram it matches plus plugging the guitar in the computer each pickups sounded like with was slightly flanged??
The two questions that come to mind are:
1 : What on earth is causing the humbuckers to really really hum not matter the switch is??
2 : Why didn't the wiring diagram work??
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