Hi folks--weird wiring question for y'all.
I'm attempting to install two 4-conductor humbuckers (Black Winters) using a 4 way Tele switch, with individual coil splits to isolate the screw coils on demand. The switch positions are (1) Bridge Only (2) Bridge + Neck parallel (3) Neck Only (4) Bridge + Neck Series. 1 vol, 1 tone, both push-pull DPDT 500k pots.
Got everything wired up, and everything works great except for one setting. When I split the neck pickup in (4), the bridge pickup drops out. That makes sense, since I'm shorting everything after the first neck coil to ground, but I can't figure out if there's a way to switch the conductors around so that I get series wiring from the neck screw coil to the bridge screw coil in (4) with my neck and bridge coils split.
Just to save you the typing, I really like the clean sound the BW's generate as single screw coils, and wanted to be able to cover Tele-style tones as well as the more usual BW fare. Sort of a Tele from Hell approach. I like the sounds thus far, but would like to hear the series tone from the two screw coils.
Thanks much!
I'm attempting to install two 4-conductor humbuckers (Black Winters) using a 4 way Tele switch, with individual coil splits to isolate the screw coils on demand. The switch positions are (1) Bridge Only (2) Bridge + Neck parallel (3) Neck Only (4) Bridge + Neck Series. 1 vol, 1 tone, both push-pull DPDT 500k pots.
Got everything wired up, and everything works great except for one setting. When I split the neck pickup in (4), the bridge pickup drops out. That makes sense, since I'm shorting everything after the first neck coil to ground, but I can't figure out if there's a way to switch the conductors around so that I get series wiring from the neck screw coil to the bridge screw coil in (4) with my neck and bridge coils split.
Just to save you the typing, I really like the clean sound the BW's generate as single screw coils, and wanted to be able to cover Tele-style tones as well as the more usual BW fare. Sort of a Tele from Hell approach. I like the sounds thus far, but would like to hear the series tone from the two screw coils.
Thanks much!
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