6 way FreeWay wiring help needed

[DoronEsh]

Hi

I know we've been there before, but I just got the FreeWay 6-way switch, and I can't seem to figure out the correct wiring scheme. A helping hand (and eye, and brains, and heart) would be very welcome.

The scheme I got with the switch is the 1st one attached to this post. It's for a 2V2T guitar. My guitar is an SG3 with 3 2-cond HB's. It's a 1V1T guitar, so I made the next scheme, based on the bottom notes of the original.

Is my scheme OK? Is there a simpler one?

THX

Dodo

 

[uOpt]

Re: 6 way FreeWay wiring help needed

I was actually going to bash StewMac for the lack of documentation on this thing.

They need to include a basic "which position shorts which contacts". Their examples-only papers are useless.

 

[wolf]

Re: 6 way FreeWay wiring help needed

Here's some graphics I've had on my computer for a while.
Hope this is a help.

 

[uOpt]

Re: 6 way FreeWay wiring help needed

That's better, thanks so much.

 

[uOpt]

Re: 6 way FreeWay wiring help needed

Did you mean to post the same thing twice or did you leave out another page?

 

[wolf]

Re: 6 way FreeWay wiring help needed

Wow - that is the same page twice. As I said I've had those on my computer for a while and it's been a long time since I've looked at those. The files have different names but they are identical. I will delete one of those.

 

[DoronEsh]

Re: 6 way FreeWay wiring help needed

And the winner is ...

 

[DoronEsh]

Re: 6 way FreeWay wiring help needed

This scheme works, of course, for all HHH guitars, not just my SG3.

First impressions:
- Switching is very fast and noiseless. Much more comfy than the rotary switch that came stock with the guitar. The 6-way switch was mounted horizontally so as not to change cavity size. This means that getting to positions 1-3 is done with the thumb (pushing down) and 4-6 with the finger (pushing up).
- Positions 1-2-3 have your classic SG Neck-Both-Bridge sounds. Just great.
- Position 4 (N+M) sounds very "strat-4-ish".
- Position 5 (N+M+B) sounds "Greenish". Great for "Need Your Love So Bad" sort of things.
- Position 6 (M+B) sounds very "strat-2-ish".

That's All Folks

Enjoy the scheme

DoDo