Re: 5-way Import Switch HH Wiring / Switching Options
Big Feet,
Ok, as promised earlier this evening, following are two error-free diagrams that incorporate Two Tone Controls.
Each of these diagrams is different than the Seymour Duncan diagram with Two Tone Controls that you asked about earlier, in that i achieve different coils being active in coilsplit mode than the Seymour Duncan diagram. For the neck pickup, i have the Outer/Screw Coil active. This coil is generally preferable over the Inner Neck coil because the Outer Neck coil is located closer to the node where the 24th fret would be - that section of the strings has richer harmonic content. Secondly, I have the Bridge Inner coil as active instead of the Bridge Outer coil. I did this because the Bridge Outer coil has a more shrill sound because of how close it is to the bridge of the guitar. BTW, to achieve hum-canceling when the two splitcoils are combined, the two coils need to be opposite magnetic polarity. This explains why i did not choose/consider both Inner coils being active nor both Outer coils being active in splitcoil mode.
Now speaking of the differences between my two diagrams, one has the Bridge full humbucker in Position 1, while the other has Neck full humbucker in Position 1. Why would you even want to entertain having Neck full humbucker in Posiition 1? because that is the only way to get Neck splitcoil alone in Position 5. So inversely, the cost of having Bridge full humbucker in Position 1 is that you get Bridge splitcoil alone in Position 5. I said in earlier reply, of the stand-alone splitcoils on the two pickups, Neck splitcoil is the generally the more popular choice. So you can decide which of the two configurations is more desirable to you.
And of course, you could use the Seymour Duncan diagram if you preferred it for some reason.
Lastly, these diagrams do not visually depict the following technical details that are commonly left off drawings because they are considered common knowledge:
1. all the pots and the jack need to be grounded to a single common ground spot. you have the discretion to choose to make that the back of one of the pots, or the Sleeve of the output jack. But the back of one of the pots is the more popular choice.
2. the bridge ground wire is not depicted but it is there in your guitar's control cavity someplace, and it needs to get connected to the common ground spot mentioned in Point 1 above.
It is getting late, i might not complete and post the Two Volume Controls diagram until tomorrow, I will see what i can get done with the time remaining.
