Howdy

[Bluesbob]

I'm new to this forum (but not to Seymour Duncan pups). A friend gave me a Fender CS Texas Special telecaster bridge pup and I want to mate it with a SD SH-55 Seth Lover at the neck. I want to use a 3-way switch with neck, neck+bridge in series and bridge positions. I can't seem to find a schematic to cover this. I don't think there's any point in having the bridge and neck in parallel. Anybody agree? Disagree? My other Tele has an Antiquity flat-pole bridge and the SD '54 vintage neck with a 4-way and I use the parallel position alot, because that's the sound I'm trying to get. But with this tele I just want the heavy-mids and raunch of these 2 pups, while still maintaining balance and a (relatively) medium output. Any info gratefully accepted and appreciated. Wow, some first post huh?

 

[Skullkrusher]

Re: Howdy

Welcome aboard!!

There will be some pup masters along soon to answer your question. You have come to the right place.

 

[greco]

Re: Howdy

Hey Bluesbob ...Welcome to a great forum !!
Skullkrusher is right, someone should give you a hand soon.

Wish I could help....Sorry

You might want to consider reposting your question under a new title ...something like "HELP with Series Switching for TELE or something

Just a thought.

Hope you get the answer soon.

 

[Artie]

Re: Howdy

Hey Bob; That sounds similar to my current #1. Its an HS Tele with an Antiquity II in the bridge and an SH-3 Stag Mag in the neck. Right now, I have 4 distinct sounds:

1. neck (full humbucker)
2. neck (humbucker) + bridge
3. neck (split) + bridge
4. bridge

Positions 2 and 3 are both parallel, and they both sound great. I'm hoping to try out the #3 position in series later this week. For "normal" parallel wiring, I like using a standard 3-way with either a push/pull or a separate switch to do the splitting duties. I have two different wiring schemes worked up to do the series thing.

I'll let you know later this week which one worked out better.

Artie

 

[greco]

Re: Howdy

ArtieToo found you !

Hope you get the switching solved.

Again, Welcome

 

[Artie]

Re: Howdy

I just realized, that I got ahead of myself in that last post. Thats the switch sequence when I get the 4-way in. Right now its a 3-way with a push/pull. :smack:

 

[Artie]

Re: Howdy

ArtieToo found you !

Hope you get the switching solved.

Again, Welcome

Thanks. The board was doing something weird to me again. It showed me logged in when I wasn't. So, of course, I couldn't log in. Generally, I just wait about 10 minutes and it clears itself up. This has happened a few times since they've upgraded the forum software. Weird.

 

[Bluesbob]

Howdy again

Howdy again

Thanks everybody. I think I'm going to stick to the parallel middle position wiring. A friend told me that the 2 pups in series would not sound very good. Anybody know if this is true? Also, my pickup is in, but it is the 4-wire version, so I may take a little time to figure out if I want to go the 5-way selector switch route. Thanks again.