I have a guitar with an EMG 81/85 set. I was never quite happy with how the active EMGs sound and before parting ways with them I decided to try a few things out. The first one was the 18 V mod, which turned out to be to my liking. So much so, that with the mod, it looks like the EMGs will stay. It's not a huge difference, they still sound like what they are, but the tad less compressed sound and less clipping with the increased headroom made them sound closer to my liking. So I made a small harness of 3 battery clips wired in series and installed the two batteries, this way making the mod "solderless" and while I was doing it, I thought that it would be cool if I could switch between the "original" sound (afterall, it might be useable in certain lead situations with it's more focused sound) with the flick of a switch. Now I don't feel like drilling holes, so I figured that a push/pull pot might do the trick wired to switch between series and parallel: the series mode adds the voltage of the two batteries and the parallel mode keeps it at 9V. But the problem is that I am quite illiterate when it comes to the innner workings of switches... I would like to keep the tone or volume funcition of the pot intact aand only use it to influence the voltage of the pups. So my quiestion are:
1. Is it doable the way I imagine it?
2. If yes, then HAAALPP! What goes where?
1. Is it doable the way I imagine it?
2. If yes, then HAAALPP! What goes where?
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