I am wanting to bypass my volume and tone pot and make my pickup selector blade a killswitch when in the neck pickup position. I have a conklin gtg-7 its a 25.5 inch scale length 7 string (26" from nut to holes not sure if that would be the scale length or not) but my issue with it is it just sounds all muddy and too warm. I installed a Duncan Invader in the bridge pickup and it just doesnt sound that great. I am tuned to drop A is it possible its just the short scale length with drop A making it sound all muddy? Regardless, I do not use tone pot and always wanted to wire up my pickup selector to be a killswitch. Would I just have my bridge ground and pickup ground meet on the blade selector then go to the ground on my jack. Then the hot wire coming off the blade going to the volume pot move that to the + on the jack? Sorry if my lingo/terms are a bit off I am just really trying to figure out how to brighten this guitar plus I dont care about a neck pickup especially as the stock neck pickup in this guitar sounds pretty bad and I never use a tone pot. Thank you.
Bypass Volume/Tone Pot Wiring
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Re: Bypass Volume/Tone Pot Wiring
Welcome to the forum!
A 1 meg volume pot and a no load tone or just disconnecting the tone is about the same as true bypass. You could also add a 330pf treble bleed. If you don't want a middle position, all you have to do is run a ground wire to the neck terminal on the switch and it will be kill in neck and middle.
Welcome to the forum!
A 1 meg volume pot and a no load tone or just disconnecting the tone is about the same as true bypass. You could also add a 330pf treble bleed. If you don't want a middle position, all you have to do is run a ground wire to the neck terminal on the switch and it will be kill in neck and middle.
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Re: Bypass Volume/Tone Pot Wiring
Im interested in that treble bleed maybe here in the future but for now I was thinking just making middle and/or neck position on the blade switch off and just bridge pickup no pots. Is that difficult or do I just run pickup and neck ground to blade then to jack (or pickup ground meet up with blade ground on the jack or something?) then hot from blade to jack?
Im interested in that treble bleed maybe here in the future but for now I was thinking just making middle and/or neck position on the blade switch off and just bridge pickup no pots. Is that difficult or do I just run pickup and neck ground to blade then to jack (or pickup ground meet up with blade ground on the jack or something?) then hot from blade to jack?
Re: Bypass Volume/Tone Pot Wiring
It worked its just I have two issues. I am having a ground issue when in the neck position (off), it hums unless my hands are on the strings and i can still kind of hear my guitar peeking through. Is a ground supposed to go where the live neck pickup wire used to be?
It worked its just I have two issues. I am having a ground issue when in the neck position (off), it hums unless my hands are on the strings and i can still kind of hear my guitar peeking through. Is a ground supposed to go where the live neck pickup wire used to be?
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