Another odd-ball wiring setup.

[Screaming In Digital]

I want to know if this is possible, and has anyone ever done it?

Hum cancelling single coil in the neck position.

Humbucker in the bridge position.

Vol / Vol / Tone Slotted 3 way strat style switch.

Make the bridge volume a push-pull to split the coil.

 

[idsnowdog]

Re: Another odd-ball wiring setup.

You could just modify a tele wiring schematic adding the second volume and using a push pull pot for the volume of the humbucker.

 

[Artie]

Re: Another odd-ball wiring setup.

That would be pretty easy to do. I'd shy away from the dual volumes, but thats just me. It would still be a straightforward wiring diagram.

 

[Screaming In Digital]

Re: Another odd-ball wiring setup.

I hadn't thought to look at the Tele diagrams yet. And for the dual volumes, I love having an LP toggle effect on my strat. Roll off one volume and flip back and forth :laugh2:

But this is encouraging so far. I'll be purchasing new pickups soon. So the sooner I know how to wire up my design, the better. I'm gonna go look at those Tele-grams now. :smack:

 

[Screaming In Digital]

Re: Another odd-ball wiring setup.

On the Seymour Duncan schematics page, which Tele diagram should I look at? And what would I need to do different to add in the additional volume?

 

[octavedoctor]

Re: Another odd-ball wiring setup.

It's just a standard tele configuration for the switch, but you need to give some thought as to which coil you select and how you wire the pots.

If you wire the pots as potential dividers, each one will short the circuit whe it is turned down, so if you want blending you need to follow the Fender jazz system of taking the input wire to the slider and the output from the track.

The switch will be wired this way: pins 1, 2 on side one and pins 2, 3 on side 2 will be wired together and the switch output will come from any of these. The output of each pot will go to the slider tag on each side.

The wires joing the two coils of the humbucker (R &W on Seymour Duncans) should go to one of the middle terminals of the p/p pot switch module. To split the humbucker on the pull you need to take a wire from the switch tag nearest to the pot casing (on the same side as the R&W wires) to either ground or the signal input pin of the relevant pot (the one serving the bridge pickup). Which option you select will depend the sound you want and ther relative polarity of the signal from the neck pickup.

If I had the time I'd do you a drawing

 

[octavedoctor]

Re: Another odd-ball wiring setup.

Aw hell.

Here it is…

 

[Screaming In Digital]

Re: Another odd-ball wiring setup.

Wow, thank you very much OctaveDoc. I was a little lost following the written directions, but the diagram is superb. Thank you so much. I just need to get everything here, and then decide where I'm going from there.

 

[octavedoctor]

Re: Another odd-ball wiring setup.

The diagram i've shown here is just one way of doing this. the wire i've shown connecting the lower terminal of the p//p switch may need to be taken to the signal pin of the pot instead.

Personally, i'd go for a series/parallel option rather than a straight split as you have another humbucker in the neck position. Series/parallel allows you to emulate the lighter sound of a single coil while retaining noise cancellation.