Sporky McGuffin
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Hallo! I was wondering if anyone would be willing to cast an eye over a switching setup for me.
It's using a DiMarzio EP1111 (or equivalent) with two humbuckers to do:
1) Bridge (series)
2) Neck (parallel)
3) Neck (series)
The EP1111 switches like this:
The bridge humbucker will have its coil-split wires soldered together and taped off, and its cold and shield taken to ground. Its hot output is therefore BH. The neck humbucker's wires are NNH (Neck North Hot), NNC (Neck North Cold), NSH (Neck South Hot) and NSC (Neck South Cold). A and B are jumper wires - A connects to A, B connects to B. Out is the output to the volume knob, GND is ground.
I believe that I can connect the switch like this:
Which I think leads to the following:
Left position:
NSH = A = disconnected
Out = BH
NNC = GND
A = disconnected
So bridge hot to the output, neck pickup disconnected (technically both colds to ground, both hots disconnected - I could connect GND to the bottom left lug to fully ground the neck north coil)
Centre position
NSH = A = OUT
Out = NNH
NNC = GND
A = Out
So the neck coils are each connected to ground and to out - ie parallel
Right position
NSH = B = NNC
Out = NNH
NNC = B = NSH
A = OUT (but not connected to anything else)
Does that make sense? Ta!
It's using a DiMarzio EP1111 (or equivalent) with two humbuckers to do:
1) Bridge (series)
2) Neck (parallel)
3) Neck (series)
The EP1111 switches like this:
The bridge humbucker will have its coil-split wires soldered together and taped off, and its cold and shield taken to ground. Its hot output is therefore BH. The neck humbucker's wires are NNH (Neck North Hot), NNC (Neck North Cold), NSH (Neck South Hot) and NSC (Neck South Cold). A and B are jumper wires - A connects to A, B connects to B. Out is the output to the volume knob, GND is ground.
I believe that I can connect the switch like this:
Which I think leads to the following:
Left position:
NSH = A = disconnected
Out = BH
NNC = GND
A = disconnected
So bridge hot to the output, neck pickup disconnected (technically both colds to ground, both hots disconnected - I could connect GND to the bottom left lug to fully ground the neck north coil)
Centre position
NSH = A = OUT
Out = NNH
NNC = GND
A = Out
So the neck coils are each connected to ground and to out - ie parallel
Right position
NSH = B = NNC
Out = NNH
NNC = B = NSH
A = OUT (but not connected to anything else)
Does that make sense? Ta!
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