HSH Strat Wiring with Killswitch and Coil Tap - Help

[Ursupator]

Hello,
I bought myself a used Super Strat with a FR that I want to modify.

The Problem is, that I don't find any wiring diagrams, that fit my needs.

What I plan to do:

A DP100F in the Bridge, a Seymour Duncan STK-S4M in the Middle and a SL59-1N in the Neck.

There should be a Master Volume with an integrated Killswitch and the two Humbuckers should be individually splittable by pulling out the Tone Knobs.

Could anyone help me?

 

[Chistopher]

Re: HSH Strat Wiring with Killswitch and Coil Tap - Help

https://docs.google.com/gview?embed...-content/uploads/2016/05/2H_3B_1V_2TppSPL.pdf

If you buy a kill pot you don't need any special wiring for it, but if you get a push pull (not recommended because it isn't momentary) you need to do a little extra.

Edit: Disregard, misread original post. I'll come up with something for what you wanted.

 

[Chistopher]

Re: HSH Strat Wiring with Killswitch and Coil Tap - Help

Okay, this is the schematic you want to base your wiring off of:

View attachment 82974

Just one question though, how did you want your tone knobs to work? That will make a difference in how it's wired. I assume you want a dedicated tone for the neck and one for the middle and leave the bridge without a tone?

 

[Ursupator]

Re: HSH Strat Wiring with Killswitch and Coil Tap - Help

Okay, this is the schematic you want to base your wiring off of:

View attachment 82974

Just one question though, how did you want your tone knobs to work? That will make a difference in how it's wired. I assume you want a dedicated tone for the neck and one for the middle and leave the bridge without a tone?

I want a tone knob for the bridge and the other for the neck. No knob for the middle.

 

[Chistopher]

Re: HSH Strat Wiring with Killswitch and Coil Tap - Help

I want a tone knob for the bridge and the other for the neck. No knob for the middle.

Okay, I'll get on that later tonight. And since you didn't mention pot values, I'd like to recommend you use 250k for the volume and 1 meg for the tones. If you can't find a 1 meg push-pull, I'd use a 500k no load. That way they don't take too much high end from your already hot bridge pickup.

 

[Chistopher]

Re: HSH Strat Wiring with Killswitch and Coil Tap - Help

So I looked into your wiring scheme and found a small problem. If you use the coil split one of the humbuckers, it won't be noiseless in the 2 or 4 position. This is because the STK already canceled it's own noise and can't cancel the other pickups noise. This could be fixed by making it so that the push-pulls "split" the STK at the same time as the other pickup, but this would introduce the problem of position 3 not being noiseless when one or both pots are pulled.

The diagram I'm in the works of making uses series/parallel instead of splitting, which on your pickups sounds almost identical to split, minus the hum of course. This makes it so that any possible position is noiseless. If you have any issues with using series/parallel, just let me know.

 

[Chistopher]

Re: HSH Strat Wiring with Killswitch and Coil Tap - Help

So here is my draft of my wiring for your guitar. It should work fine, it's just pretty difficult to read. I'll get to Microsoft paint around Monday or so, but if you need it right now and can decode it, here you go.

 

[Ursupator]

Re: HSH Strat Wiring with Killswitch and Coil Tap - Help

The diagram looks great Christopher.

A Series/parallel wiring seems to be much better than a coil split.

 

[Ursupator]

Re: HSH Strat Wiring with Killswitch and Coil Tap - Help

Something important I forgot to mention:

The Switch Positions:

 

[Chistopher]

Re: HSH Strat Wiring with Killswitch and Coil Tap - Help

That requires a super switch to do, which I haven't done for quite a while. Just one thing I'd like mention though, most people like to have it so that as the switch goes from bridge to neck the pickups get less trebly. I found that out myself with a similar wiring to yours. You wiring has it so that the positions with the most treble are out of order. This might look fine on paper, but it's really weird once you actually get the guitar.

 

[Chistopher]

Re: HSH Strat Wiring with Killswitch and Coil Tap - Help

So I came up with a schematic taking into account your switching requirements. It is wired a bit unconventionally, but it works. I also (somewhat accidentally) put in two tone caps. This makes it so that you can use a different tone cap value for each pickup, or you can keep them the same.



Other wiring gurus can proofread if they want too. I had otherthings on my mind for part of this.

 

[Clint 55]

Re: HSH Strat Wiring with Killswitch and Coil Tap - Help

Nappin on the job.

 

[Ursupator]

Re: HSH Strat Wiring with Killswitch and Coil Tap - Help

wow. great job.
thank you.

I gonna give it a try

 

[Mincer]

Re: HSH Strat Wiring with Killswitch and Coil Tap - Help

I agree, great work, and thanks for helping!