Re: Help with HH Ibanez wiring
Your diagram is difficult to follow. For one thing, you show no "hot" wire going from the SS to the volume pot, so I'm not sure what you're using as the hot output. It appears as though you're using the red wire on one pickup as the hot. I think you've made this
way more complicated than need be.
Wiring two humbuckers to a Superswitch is one of the easiest wiring schemes there is, if you follow my "system". I do it like this:
Note that in top diagram, you only connect the red/white wires to the Superswitch. In the bottom diagram, you can see the five basic modes of a 4-wire humbucker: Off, series, parallel, split-to-stud, and split-to-screw. Those jumpers can be placed in any order to select any function in any position of the switch. Note also, that in the series mode, you simply place a jumper across the two terminals that are side by side. (Up and down, in my drawing). Every other terminal either goes to "hot" or to ground.
So, what you want would look like this:
That looks complex, but it's actually very simple. The first thing you do is to wire up the SS jumpers while the switch is out of the guitar. Like this:
1. Place the series jumpers. (Cyan.)
2. Connect all the terminals that will be grounded, (green), and leave a bit of extra wire.
3. Connect the remaining terminals that go to hot, (red), and leave a bit of extra wire.
Now, put the Superswitch into the guitar, and connect the HB's green and bare and the "ground" wire from the SS to the ground lug of the volume pot.
Then take the two HB black wires, and the "hot" lead from the SS and connect to the opposite lug of the volume pot.
Lastly, connect the red/white wires of the HB's to their respective common terminals of the Superswitch.
It will look like this:
Add your tone control and output jack and you're done.
Make sense?
Artie
