Looking for some wiring help after my first attempt failed to do what I had wanted.
1) Using dual Fishman Fluence humbuckers with an Oak Gribsby Superswitch (4P5T),
2) wanting to have a blend/balance/pan pot (typical center detent, stacked rows of 3 terminals),
3) only have the blend affect positions 2, 3, 4 (both pickups combined),
4) the blender functioning similar to a bass guitar with no pickup selector switch,
5) all while leaving positions #1 (bridge only) and #5 (neck only) unaffected (e.g. always just 100% the selected pickup irrespective of what the blender pot is on).
Is what I want to do technically possible? Anyone have any wiring diagrams or other resources that might be able to help? I have not found anything close enough to what I am looking for so far, just standard strat 5 ways with a blend for the neck/bridge pickup, tele blender, or blenders in place of a pickup selector switch (e.g. bass guitars).
My first shot in the dark attempt involved using just one circuit/pole/bank on the superswitch. I ran the hot input from the bridge pickup to the Position #1 terminal on circuit #1, and then I ran a jumper cable right off of this same terminal to the first input on the blender pot. The neck pickup's hot input went to Position #5 on circuit #1, then a jumper to the second input on the blender pot. Then I ran the blender pot’s blended output back to Positions #2, 3, 4 on circuit #1 of the superswitch. Here is a crude schematic.
At least positions #2, 3, 4 did exactly what I was looking for. However, positions #1 and #5 are super jacked up. The blender pot not only impacts these positions too, it is also completely unintuitive. It is tough to describe in words so the table below of each pickups approx balance is what I am getting.
Any thoughts on how to make this work? I don’t need diagrams and can run with basic instructions fairly easily.
1) Using dual Fishman Fluence humbuckers with an Oak Gribsby Superswitch (4P5T),
2) wanting to have a blend/balance/pan pot (typical center detent, stacked rows of 3 terminals),
3) only have the blend affect positions 2, 3, 4 (both pickups combined),
4) the blender functioning similar to a bass guitar with no pickup selector switch,
5) all while leaving positions #1 (bridge only) and #5 (neck only) unaffected (e.g. always just 100% the selected pickup irrespective of what the blender pot is on).
Is what I want to do technically possible? Anyone have any wiring diagrams or other resources that might be able to help? I have not found anything close enough to what I am looking for so far, just standard strat 5 ways with a blend for the neck/bridge pickup, tele blender, or blenders in place of a pickup selector switch (e.g. bass guitars).
My first shot in the dark attempt involved using just one circuit/pole/bank on the superswitch. I ran the hot input from the bridge pickup to the Position #1 terminal on circuit #1, and then I ran a jumper cable right off of this same terminal to the first input on the blender pot. The neck pickup's hot input went to Position #5 on circuit #1, then a jumper to the second input on the blender pot. Then I ran the blender pot’s blended output back to Positions #2, 3, 4 on circuit #1 of the superswitch. Here is a crude schematic.
At least positions #2, 3, 4 did exactly what I was looking for. However, positions #1 and #5 are super jacked up. The blender pot not only impacts these positions too, it is also completely unintuitive. It is tough to describe in words so the table below of each pickups approx balance is what I am getting.
Any thoughts on how to make this work? I don’t need diagrams and can run with basic instructions fairly easily.
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