Long time lurker, first post.
I need some wiring advice.
My problem is that I have an HSS strat and I use a push pull tone pot as a series-parallel switch for the humbucker. This has always worked well for me. I recently switched the humbucker out and ended up with an out of phase sound in position 2. The way I have always dealt with this in the past in other guitars (using regular wiring with no push pull pots) has been to swap the positions of hot and the ground wires from the pickup. However, when I tried to do that with the push pull pot, I ended up with a functional humbucker with the pot pushed in and ZERO sound with the pot pulled out.
I have to admit that I don't really understand the ins and outs of how these pots function, but I am guessing that there is probably a simple explanation/solution to my problem.
I can't figure out how to post a picture here, unfortunately, to show you my guitar, but essentially, the wiring was originally done as suggested in this link (see the series-parallel diagram):
However, one difference is that the "bare" wire was wired to the push pull pot terminal along with the ground wire from the pickup and not to the pot. It came installed this way from a tech, so I didn't change it.
When I tried to fix my out of phase problem, I swapped the equivalent of the green and the black wires in the diagram.
Can anyone help me out?
I need some wiring advice.
My problem is that I have an HSS strat and I use a push pull tone pot as a series-parallel switch for the humbucker. This has always worked well for me. I recently switched the humbucker out and ended up with an out of phase sound in position 2. The way I have always dealt with this in the past in other guitars (using regular wiring with no push pull pots) has been to swap the positions of hot and the ground wires from the pickup. However, when I tried to do that with the push pull pot, I ended up with a functional humbucker with the pot pushed in and ZERO sound with the pot pulled out.
I have to admit that I don't really understand the ins and outs of how these pots function, but I am guessing that there is probably a simple explanation/solution to my problem.
I can't figure out how to post a picture here, unfortunately, to show you my guitar, but essentially, the wiring was originally done as suggested in this link (see the series-parallel diagram):
However, one difference is that the "bare" wire was wired to the push pull pot terminal along with the ground wire from the pickup and not to the pot. It came installed this way from a tech, so I didn't change it.
When I tried to fix my out of phase problem, I swapped the equivalent of the green and the black wires in the diagram.
Can anyone help me out?
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