Does this wiring diagram look right?
- Thread starter RockinProf
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Looks good to me.
It may just be how its drawn but there's a few wires which are permanent electrical connections to ground I would move around. The green neck lead and resistor leg connected together at the switch and the tone pot ground wire...
I would solder those three to the back of the volume pot instead of jumpering them to ground off other lugs. It reduces possible failure points. The killswitch in particular - those get hit hard and often - if it failed mid-show with the tone pot grounded through it, the tone could also stop working.
PS - it took me a moment to realize its the DiMarzio convention of Neck is 1 and Bridge is 5. This makes much more sense to me because like people have asked with pedals we read left to right so... Why the opposite Bridge is 1 and Neck is 5 became more common I don't know...
It may just be how its drawn but there's a few wires which are permanent electrical connections to ground I would move around. The green neck lead and resistor leg connected together at the switch and the tone pot ground wire...
I would solder those three to the back of the volume pot instead of jumpering them to ground off other lugs. It reduces possible failure points. The killswitch in particular - those get hit hard and often - if it failed mid-show with the tone pot grounded through it, the tone could also stop working.
PS - it took me a moment to realize its the DiMarzio convention of Neck is 1 and Bridge is 5. This makes much more sense to me because like people have asked with pedals we read left to right so... Why the opposite Bridge is 1 and Neck is 5 became more common I don't know...
Artie
Peaveyologist
I've always thought the same thing. Guitar wiring diagrams are almost always shown from the perspective of a guitar resting on a stand. Ergo, neck at the top.
Good point. I've always quite selfishly drawn mine for a righty guitar sideways and face down how it looks to a tech working on it. Seems natural since my workbench and computer monitor are both landscape not portrait
RockinProf
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Thanks for the review. I'll admit that I did the drawing a little lazy so that it was easier to see paths rather than think out how to show ll paths distinctly without having a reviewer get lost in spaghetti. I'll be playing mot grounds on the pot cases. The Cruiser should arrive today, I think this should be a winning wiring scheme where all positions are usable.
DiMarzio convention actually makes sense to me. Red as the output and the neck as position 1 - when the guitar is on the bench and the first contact point on the switch is the first one going north to south. Guitar wiring is really the wild west though.
Thanks.
RockinProf
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Now that I’ve been using this configuration for a few weeks, I have to say that it’s fantastic. I did remove the resistor for the Cruisers as they lacked the treble I wanted and the output wasn’t matching the Pro Track. With that modification this is the most versatile guitar in the herd. Yes, a Seth Lover is a much better PAF, the Cruisers aren’t SSL1/2’s - they aren’t SH2’s either. In an SSS routed body with a trem - it’s got more bases covered. The Pro Track is 90-95% PAF, in Parallel it’s 80% strat single coil. The Cruisers are more Firebird than anything else. This is my show up with one instrument guitar. Super happy.
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