I am putting together an HSS guitar with 500k volume and 250k tone pot , 5 way fender switch and will wire so humbucker bridge automatically splits with middle pickup but only want to use the tone for the singles, no tone for the humbucker any diagrams for this config? I can find a bunch of hss auto coil split but all have humbucker hooked to tone. Thanks for any help
HSS wiring diagram
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Hello. If you're using the standard Fender Strat 5 way switch with only 8 lugs - 4 on a side - this won't be possible. You can use one side (pole) of the switch for the hot connections from each pickup. The other side you can either use to connect tone controls by position like a vintage Strat, or auto split the humbucker in position two. But not both at the same time. If there isn't some kind internally wired Megaswtich that does what you want out of the box you'd need the 4 pole 5 way Super Switch with 24 lugs. Is not that complicated to wire this scheme but needs a more expensive switch. With all this stuff I'm always happy to be proven wrong and learn something new.
Other alternatives depending on how you want to switch between sounds...
If you want a to be able to roll down the neck or middle tone then switch to bridge with no rolloff, you could wire the 5 way for no bridge tone control and use a push-pull to split the humbucker.
If you don't care about that back and forth between dark and bright tones, then you could do the opposite. Wire the switch for auto-split of the bridge and use a push-pull to take the tone control out of the circuit.
Last option is using a No Load type tone control where on 10 its bypassed entirely - not loading the pickups at all.
Other alternatives depending on how you want to switch between sounds...
If you want a to be able to roll down the neck or middle tone then switch to bridge with no rolloff, you could wire the 5 way for no bridge tone control and use a push-pull to split the humbucker.
If you don't care about that back and forth between dark and bright tones, then you could do the opposite. Wire the switch for auto-split of the bridge and use a push-pull to take the tone control out of the circuit.
Last option is using a No Load type tone control where on 10 its bypassed entirely - not loading the pickups at all.
Thank you both. I was not sure if I could do it with a standard 5 way switch or not and getting a superswitch is a great idea! I do have a no load tone pot but I'm a big pickup switcher especially with hss and didn't want to have to futz with the tone control switching between pickups. Guess I will start to search for superswitch wiring diagrams!