Another 470K Resistor Question

[austin]

So, I wired up my PGN/CC bridge guitar with a superswitch to give me:
Neck Humbucker
Neck Split
Bridge and Neck Humbuckers
Bridge and Neck Split
Bridge Humbucker

I wanted to wire a 470K resistor into the switch so that positions 2 and 4 are loaded down a bit and aren't as bright. I kind of understand what needs to happen theory-wise, but I'm not sure what to solder where. It seems like I would want to solder the resistor to one of the free terminals that would be active in, say, the 2 position and then jump that terminal to a free terminal that would be active in the 4 position. But where would the other end of the resistor go? I'm trying to put it in parallel with the volume control, so would I just wire the other end to one of the output terminals on the switch?

My head hurts :eek13:
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Austin

 

[DreX]

Re: Another 470K Resistor Question

You'd use a capacitor and resister in series. The capacitor to bleed treble and lower the peak resonance, and the resistor to control the amplitude of the bleed out. It would be like a tone control that was turned down slightly. As to which values, that's preference, I'd buy a kit like this

http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Knows-Ele...395080555&sr=8-1&keywords=assorted+capacitors

and resistors

http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Knows-Ele..._indust_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=1XHWE485VJKD4DG273SF

so that you can mess with it until you get it. You could start with 200k resistor and a .01 uF cap, or something close and see how that sounds.

So if your four throw super switch has a free throw no being used for anything else, you'd connect the "output" of the throw to the "volume up" side of the volume pot, then connect 2 and 4 on the super switch with a short piece of wire, when connect the the resistor to either 2 or 4 (won't matter) then connect the capacitor to the resistor, then finally connect the capacitor to ground.

This will cause the guitar's positive signal to have some treble bled to ground when the super switch is in position 2 or 4.

If you don't have a free throw in the four throw switch, you just need two capacitor/resistor pairs instead of one pair, and you connect the cap/resistor pairs to both the 2 and 4 positions on the super switch throw whose output leads out to the volume pot. You'd connect the other ends of the pairs to ground.

 

[austin]

Re: Another 470K Resistor Question

O.k. Cool, this sounds close to what I had figured out, except for the capacitor part.
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Austin