5 way switch wiring help (dual humbucker)

[warplanegrey]

Hi!

I need a bit of help figuring out how to wire up a 5-way super switch to achieve the following configuration:

1: bridge humbucker (series)
2: bridge humbucker (split)
3: bridge (Split) + neck (series)
4: neck (series)
5: off

Can anyone help me with this? I’ve found all sort of wiring diagrams that are close, but none with the off in position 5.

Thanks!
Scott

 

[Jack_TriPpEr]

Re: 5 way switch wiring help (dual humbucker)

Hi!

I need a bit of help figuring out how to wire up a 5-way super switch to achieve the following configuration:

1: bridge humbucker (series)
2: bridge humbucker (split)
3: bridge (Split) + neck (series)
4: neck (series)
5: off

Can anyone help me with this? I’ve found all sort of wiring diagrams that are close, but none with the off in position 5.

Thanks!
Scott

I can work up a diagram for you that does that this evening.

Is your superswitch blade style or rotary style?

 

[d2718]

Re: 5 way switch wiring help (dual humbucker)

5: off

That's pretty interesting. I don't think I've ever seen anybody want that in a pickup selector before. I mean, I had a guitar that was wired like that for a while, but it's just because I'd pulled a pickup out of my Strat and hadn't bothered to replace the 5-way switch. It wasn't on purpose.

 

[warplanegrey]

Re: 5 way switch wiring help (dual humbucker)

That's pretty interesting. I don't think I've ever seen anybody want that in a pickup selector before. I mean, I had a guitar that was wired like that for a while, but it's just because I'd pulled a pickup out of my Strat and hadn't bothered to replace the 5-way switch. It wasn't on purpose.

I’ve actually figured it out. This is how I wired it:



I usually use Gibson-style guitars live, and in the songs where I primarily use the bridge pickup, I use the neck switch as a kill switch. This is sort of like that. I like being able to mute my guitar when I’m not by my pedalboard.

Plus the neck pickup I have doesn’t have coil splitting, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Not too many options available nor do I need a bunch of parallel/series/blended options.

 

[Jack_TriPpEr]

Re: 5 way switch wiring help (dual humbucker)

I’ve actually figured it out. This is how I wired it:

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I usually use Gibson-style guitars live, and in the songs where I primarily use the bridge pickup, I use the neck switch as a kill switch. This is sort of like that. I like being able to mute my guitar when I’m not by my pedalboard.

Plus the neck pickup I have doesn’t have coil splitting, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Not too many options available nor do I need a bunch of parallel/series/blended options.

In that drawing you posted, it seems lke in Position 5, you are planning on *not* sending the Jack Hot input to ground? If that is correct, then the result will be a bunch of noise instead of the silence that you want. To understand more, see the Seymour Duncan diagram below about how to wire a killswitch.

 

[warplanegrey]

Re: 5 way switch wiring help (dual humbucker)

I actually sent position 5 to ground. I didn’t draw it on there until after I took the picture. There’s no noise in that spot.

 

[ratiug]

Re: 5 way switch wiring help (dual humbucker)

is position 3,bridge split and full neck in parallel or do you want to split the neck and putit in series with split bridge to make a humbucker? regardless it can all be done with a 2 pole 5-way switch but the 4 pole 5-way will also work. its just overkill