Hey guys, I've asked about this before on the forum, but no one was exactly sure how to correctly wire this up. I sent the following request to www.guitarelectronics.com:
Hello, I have a wiring diagram request for your site. This would be particularly useful in a two humbucker guitar with lower output PAF-style pickups. Splitting the coils using a push/pull pot is less effective on these lower output pickups and generally gives a weak sound. This would be much more useful if the pickups could be split to single coils and then combined in series. Using a standard two humbucker, one volume, one tone, and three way switch layout, a DPDT push/pull switch could be used on the tone control to split both humbuckers to singles by pulling up on the tone knob. The volume pot could then be pulled up to combine both pickups in series. If you were using two pickups wound to a resistance of about 8k, you would end up with a hum canceling single coil sound with 8k of resistance, which would be enough output to give a good single coil approximation. You could also use the series switch to get a high output humbucker tone. I tried to get this working myself, but I couldn’t quite do it. I can get the coil split to work, and I can get the series pickup combination to work, but I can’t get them to work together. I had it wired so that the both pickups were selected in series when the volume knob was pulled up, regardless of the 3 way switch position. I’m just not sure how to wire it up so that both the coil split and series options can be used together. If someone can figure out a diagram for this, I would really appreciate it. Thanks.
This is the reply I got:
Great News!!! The tech here said that is exactly how his les paul is wired and so he drew it real fast. Here is the link, let me know how it turns out!
this is drawn for a Les Paul, but I'm sure it could be easily adapted for just about any guitar. I must say, the people at Guitar Electronics are great, I emailed them and got a response and a diagram in the same day. I think I'm going to wire my soon-to-be-purchased next guitar this way, with one push/pull to split the coils on both pickups and one to combine both pickups in series when the switch is pulled. If any of the wiring gurus want to take a look at this or give it a try, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
Ryan
Hello, I have a wiring diagram request for your site. This would be particularly useful in a two humbucker guitar with lower output PAF-style pickups. Splitting the coils using a push/pull pot is less effective on these lower output pickups and generally gives a weak sound. This would be much more useful if the pickups could be split to single coils and then combined in series. Using a standard two humbucker, one volume, one tone, and three way switch layout, a DPDT push/pull switch could be used on the tone control to split both humbuckers to singles by pulling up on the tone knob. The volume pot could then be pulled up to combine both pickups in series. If you were using two pickups wound to a resistance of about 8k, you would end up with a hum canceling single coil sound with 8k of resistance, which would be enough output to give a good single coil approximation. You could also use the series switch to get a high output humbucker tone. I tried to get this working myself, but I couldn’t quite do it. I can get the coil split to work, and I can get the series pickup combination to work, but I can’t get them to work together. I had it wired so that the both pickups were selected in series when the volume knob was pulled up, regardless of the 3 way switch position. I’m just not sure how to wire it up so that both the coil split and series options can be used together. If someone can figure out a diagram for this, I would really appreciate it. Thanks.
This is the reply I got:
Great News!!! The tech here said that is exactly how his les paul is wired and so he drew it real fast. Here is the link, let me know how it turns out!
this is drawn for a Les Paul, but I'm sure it could be easily adapted for just about any guitar. I must say, the people at Guitar Electronics are great, I emailed them and got a response and a diagram in the same day. I think I'm going to wire my soon-to-be-purchased next guitar this way, with one push/pull to split the coils on both pickups and one to combine both pickups in series when the switch is pulled. If any of the wiring gurus want to take a look at this or give it a try, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
Ryan
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