esquire hotrod schematic

[robrecht]

hi
Soon i'm gonna order a London City Comet telecaster. I want to relic it and transform it into a hot-rod esquire. The bridge pickup will be a seymour duncan hotrails. I'm not the best technician out there, so i'm begging for the smartasses out here to make me a schematic.

the guitar should be able to do the following:
pos1 (normal bridge position): full pickup, no tone control (full treble)
pos2: full pickup, tone control
pos3: pickup splitted, no tone control (full treble)
pos4: pickup splitted, tone control
pos5: pickup splitted and the esquire 'bassy' thing when the switch on a normal esquire would be in the neck positiion.

actually, the fifth position isn't necessary, but it would be VERY nice.

if anyone has the time and is able to write me a schematic, it would just make my day/week/month/year(s), because this is the switching system i would place on my dream guitar.

greetz from belgium,
robrecht

 

[Jeroen]

Re: esquire hotrod schematic

Hehe, welcome, Vlaming!



Artie? :notworthy

 

[robrecht]

Re: esquire hotrod schematic

'ndag mr. gahrmann!

 

[Falstaff]

Re: esquire hotrod schematic

Sounds cool, and welcome.

One alternative to the fifth position might be to not do it completely bassy but rather just a bit more bassy so you can have a nice preset rhythm tone.

 

[robrecht]

Re: esquire hotrod schematic

yeah that's what i want to have..

 

[Artie]

Re: esquire hotrod schematic

To get that particular sequence, you'll need to use a Superswitch. You can get close with a standard 5-way, but not exact. I'm working up some variations now.

Artie

 

[robrecht]

Re: esquire hotrod schematic

THANKS!!!!

I was told that a hotswitch could do a lot, but i don't really now what it is?
and what exactly is a superswitch?

 

[Jeroen]

Re: esquire hotrod schematic

A Superswitch is a five way switch with four individual poles, that offers almost limitless switching posibilities. I have one in my Ibanez, but only use a tiny bit of its possibilities. In my Ibanez, the center switching position has been changed from the middle pickup stand-alone to neck and bridge pickups together, wired in parallel mode.

 

[robrecht]

Re: esquire hotrod schematic

is there a significant difference in sound whether you put pickups in series or parallel?

 

[robrecht]

Re: esquire hotrod schematic

^^

 

[Artie]

Re: esquire hotrod schematic

is there a significant difference in sound whether you put pickups in series or parallel?

Yes. The "normal" way for a guitar to connect pickups is in parallel. When you connect two singles in series, they take on a somewhat humbucker sound. The output will jump up and you'll lose some highs. It can be a pleasing tone, depending on which singles you connect.

 

[robrecht]

Re: esquire hotrod schematic

on my tele, can i put in a 4way switch so i can do
1 bridge
2 bridge+neck series
3 bridg+neck parallel
4 neck

 

[Frebnedzo]

Re: esquire hotrod schematic

Some new teles come that way and you can buy the switch at

http://www.harmonicdesign.net/

(probably other places as well...)

 

[Artie]

Re: esquire hotrod schematic

on my tele, can i put in a 4way switch so i can do
1 bridge
2 bridge+neck series
3 bridg+neck parallel
4 neck

This will do it:

GuitarElectronics.com has one also, but it has the problem of hanging the neck out as a noise antenna when it isn't selected. The way I've shown avoids that problem.

Artie

 

[robrecht]

Re: esquire hotrod schematic

tnx frebnedzo & artietoo!

artietoo, do you have a schematic for my esquire?

 

[Artie]

Re: esquire hotrod schematic

tnx frebnedzo & artietoo!

artietoo, do you have a schematic for my esquire?

Do you mean for what you wanted in your first post? If so, I can do that fairly easily. Just give me a day or so. Before the weeks over, for sure.

Artie

 

[robrecht]

Re: esquire hotrod schematic

yup the split/tone/full/no-tone... combinations. that one.

 

[Jeroen]

Re: esquire hotrod schematic

*bump*

 

[Artie]

Re: esquire hotrod schematic

Ooops . . . must be getting senile. I'll have this up sometime today. Should be fairly soon. :blackeye:

 

[Artie]

Re: esquire hotrod schematic

I ran into a little snag while drawing this up. I can take care of it, but I gotta rest my brain for a sec. Its just weird wiring up a single pup to a Superswitch. In the mean time, take a look at this Esquire diagram, and make sure you want that 5th position to be "true" Esquire. It places a .05uf cap in series witha 3.3k resistor, which is in series with the pickup, and then places a .05uf cap to ground. One cap trims off some bass, the resistor lowers the volume, than the second cap cuts off all the highs.

I would think that that would sound awful. Make sure thats what you really want.

Artie

Edit: I can show you a couple of variations, if you want.
(Forgot the link.) Esquire wiring