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I'm converting a late 90's Lonestar Strat with a 5-way superswitch, swapping out the middle and neck single coils for same-sized humbuckers that can be split. I want to split all three pickups (they have the appropriate wires) so that I can use single coil tones in positions 2 and 4. The middle pickup needs to be reversed (per Seymour Duncan instructions) so it's in phase with the bridge and neck. This strat has 1 volume and 2 tone controls.
I tried this SD wiring approach but was unhappy with the result.: https://www.seymourduncan.com/images..._S5W_1V_2T.jpg There was no tone control for the bridge pickup at all, and the two tone controls seemed to interact in ways that didn't make sense to me on the neck and the middle. These are not things I understood at first.
The good news is, now I understand how a superswitch works. But, the art of wiring this thing so I have elegant tone control escapes me. The cap on tone control #2 is 153k (.015 I believe?) and while I am in there I am swapping out the 250k pots for 500's, and replacing the volume with an SD YJM high-speed pot. Cuz, why not?
As best as I understand it, the black/hot leads off the humbuckers basically get routed to lug 1 of the volume pot, via the superswitch, based on what you select. What I don't understand is how the grounding circuit works, sending signal into the tone pots...?
Could someone please, send me to the best place to understand this as a layman, or, even better, explain to me how I should approach this and learn it? I think what I want is tone #2 (furthest from the volume pot) to control bridge/mid and tone #1 (next to the volume pot) controls the neck.
I have spent hours surfing Youtube, forums, and manufacturer sites but cannot quite find my precise use case. Everyone is talking about Les Paul style with two volumes, or strats with single coils not humbuckers. I'm not a professional electronics person, but can solder decently and follow instructions. I'm confident I can do this, if I can just find an explanation of how to do it.
Thankyou thankyou thankyou!!!
I'm converting a late 90's Lonestar Strat with a 5-way superswitch, swapping out the middle and neck single coils for same-sized humbuckers that can be split. I want to split all three pickups (they have the appropriate wires) so that I can use single coil tones in positions 2 and 4. The middle pickup needs to be reversed (per Seymour Duncan instructions) so it's in phase with the bridge and neck. This strat has 1 volume and 2 tone controls.
I tried this SD wiring approach but was unhappy with the result.: https://www.seymourduncan.com/images..._S5W_1V_2T.jpg There was no tone control for the bridge pickup at all, and the two tone controls seemed to interact in ways that didn't make sense to me on the neck and the middle. These are not things I understood at first.
The good news is, now I understand how a superswitch works. But, the art of wiring this thing so I have elegant tone control escapes me. The cap on tone control #2 is 153k (.015 I believe?) and while I am in there I am swapping out the 250k pots for 500's, and replacing the volume with an SD YJM high-speed pot. Cuz, why not?
As best as I understand it, the black/hot leads off the humbuckers basically get routed to lug 1 of the volume pot, via the superswitch, based on what you select. What I don't understand is how the grounding circuit works, sending signal into the tone pots...?
Could someone please, send me to the best place to understand this as a layman, or, even better, explain to me how I should approach this and learn it? I think what I want is tone #2 (furthest from the volume pot) to control bridge/mid and tone #1 (next to the volume pot) controls the neck.
I have spent hours surfing Youtube, forums, and manufacturer sites but cannot quite find my precise use case. Everyone is talking about Les Paul style with two volumes, or strats with single coils not humbuckers. I'm not a professional electronics person, but can solder decently and follow instructions. I'm confident I can do this, if I can just find an explanation of how to do it.
Thankyou thankyou thankyou!!!
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