ratherdashing
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Re: I have a 3 humbucker guitar and need help
This is so exciting ... I love when Artie gets his mojo working!
This is so exciting ... I love when Artie gets his mojo working!
I have a 3 humbucker guitar and need help
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A_fire_inside
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Re: I have a 3 humbucker guitar and need help
lol alright man, I can wait for the diagram. Im probably gunna have to wait a few weeks anyways til i can afford all this stuff. i just need to make sure it will work and find out how it will work before i spend like 400-500 bucks
lol alright man, I can wait for the diagram. Im probably gunna have to wait a few weeks anyways til i can afford all this stuff. i just need to make sure it will work and find out how it will work before i spend like 400-500 bucks
Artie
Peaveyologist
Re: I have a 3 humbucker guitar and need help
Ok, here's why you need this switch, (12144 - red arrow), or any other manufacturer's version of same. First, the top half of the switch, (red line), is standard size - not miniature. So it will look reasonably good on an LP. Second, the lower half, (blue line), is miniature. It will fit in the control cavity with no problem. Third, it has "function 4", (green arrow). That gives it the electrical configuration that I've drawn below, which allows the connection diagram that I've drawn on the right.
Voila . . . a 3-way can switch 3-pups independently.
The trick is . . . finding the switch. Like I mentioned before, both of my MIA Peaveys have that switch, so it can be had. We just gotta find it.
Artie
Ok, here's why you need this switch, (12144 - red arrow), or any other manufacturer's version of same. First, the top half of the switch, (red line), is standard size - not miniature. So it will look reasonably good on an LP. Second, the lower half, (blue line), is miniature. It will fit in the control cavity with no problem. Third, it has "function 4", (green arrow). That gives it the electrical configuration that I've drawn below, which allows the connection diagram that I've drawn on the right.
Voila . . . a 3-way can switch 3-pups independently.
The trick is . . . finding the switch. Like I mentioned before, both of my MIA Peaveys have that switch, so it can be had. We just gotta find it.
Artie
A_fire_inside
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Re: I have a 3 humbucker guitar and need help
hmmm...ok. I think i get that drawing...then it would have the volume someone where in between the switch and output? And a tone between each pickup and humbucker?
Annddd....yes i just need to find that switch, which i am not having any luck with lol. I found a distributers site for it, but it did not have that one grrrrr....everything lies on the switch
hmmm...ok. I think i get that drawing...then it would have the volume someone where in between the switch and output? And a tone between each pickup and humbucker?
Annddd....yes i just need to find that switch, which i am not having any luck with lol. I found a distributers site for it, but it did not have that one grrrrr....everything lies on the switch
pinto79
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Re: I have a 3 humbucker guitar and need help
With that diagram, you would have to link where the pups are connected to the tone controls, or, if you're gonna go 3 vol, then the pup to vol to switch to tone to output.
I think I'll let Artie explain further... He's better at it than I am. I can make sense of it, but I can't explain...
A_fire_inside said:
With that diagram, you would have to link where the pups are connected to the tone controls, or, if you're gonna go 3 vol, then the pup to vol to switch to tone to output.
I think I'll let Artie explain further... He's better at it than I am. I can make sense of it, but I can't explain...
Artie
Peaveyologist
Re: I have a 3 humbucker guitar and need help
Here's the complete schematic:
Here's the exact same thing drawn in a way that might make it easier to visualize:
As you can see, each tone control just goes from the "hot" of each pup, to ground. You could actually just use one cap, but they're cheap enough that it might make it easier to use one for each tone control.
Artie
Here's the complete schematic:
Here's the exact same thing drawn in a way that might make it easier to visualize:
As you can see, each tone control just goes from the "hot" of each pup, to ground. You could actually just use one cap, but they're cheap enough that it might make it easier to use one for each tone control.
Artie
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A_fire_inside
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Re: I have a 3 humbucker guitar and need help
The pictures arent showing up on my computer.
The pictures arent showing up on my computer.
A_fire_inside
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Re: I have a 3 humbucker guitar and need help
Ok it shows now...Hmmm....i think i understand the majority of this diagram. butt...
The arrow thing near the tones, thats a cap right?
And whats the thing to the left of the tones where its broken like >| and the thing near tthe volume?
Im really new to reading these drawings
Ok it shows now...Hmmm....i think i understand the majority of this diagram. butt...
The arrow thing near the tones, thats a cap right?
And whats the thing to the left of the tones where its broken like >| and the thing near tthe volume?
Im really new to reading these drawings
Artie
Peaveyologist
Re: I have a 3 humbucker guitar and need help
And I always wire my tone controls like this:
Keep in mind, that tone control drawing is from another project. Where it says "To volume control", you'ld connect to the switch.
The squiggly line is the resistor thats in the pot. The little arrow is the "wiper" that slides along it.
And I always wire my tone controls like this:
Keep in mind, that tone control drawing is from another project. Where it says "To volume control", you'ld connect to the switch.
The squiggly line is the resistor thats in the pot. The little arrow is the "wiper" that slides along it.
A_fire_inside
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Re: I have a 3 humbucker guitar and need help
Ooohh thank you soooooo much. ok i understand everything now except that thing in the bottom right, with the arrow.
but this stuff is sooo sweet, your much better than the guy i email at emg...i sent him and email like a week ago, and the replpy basically said it cant be done/he doens't know how.
Ooohh thank you soooooo much. ok i understand everything now except that thing in the bottom right, with the arrow.
but this stuff is sooo sweet, your much better than the guy i email at emg...i sent him and email like a week ago, and the replpy basically said it cant be done/he doens't know how.
A_fire_inside
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Re: I have a 3 humbucker guitar and need help
noo..the thing at the far bottom right where it goes off into the far corner like an arrow...Is it like the battery or sometihng?
noo..the thing at the far bottom right where it goes off into the far corner like an arrow...Is it like the battery or sometihng?
Artie
Peaveyologist
Re: I have a 3 humbucker guitar and need help
Seriously though . . . on the left, you have the symbol for a capacitor and a photo. Then you have a photo of a pot and its symbol. Then you have the output jack and its symbol.
In the next pic it shows a tone control pot with a drawing of a cap attached to it.
Which do you mean?
Seriously though . . . on the left, you have the symbol for a capacitor and a photo. Then you have a photo of a pot and its symbol. Then you have the output jack and its symbol.
In the next pic it shows a tone control pot with a drawing of a cap attached to it.
Which do you mean?
A_fire_inside
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Re: I have a 3 humbucker guitar and need help
One in bototm right...and is the other circled thing, just a wire or a cap?
One in bototm right...and is the other circled thing, just a wire or a cap?
Kommerzbassist
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Re: I have a 3 humbucker guitar and need help
none of both... it means the same as "solder to ground"
Actually... the symbol means ground, but when a wire ends with that symbol, it means solder to ground
none of both... it means the same as "solder to ground"
Actually... the symbol means ground, but when a wire ends with that symbol, it means solder to ground
Artie
Peaveyologist
Re: I have a 3 humbucker guitar and need help
The blue line on the switch is a jumper. You need to connect those two terminals together with a short piece of wire.
kommerz is correct on the other. Its just the universal symbol for "ground". Like your bridge plate and foil lining, (if you use it), stuff like that all connects there.
The blue line on the switch is a jumper. You need to connect those two terminals together with a short piece of wire.
kommerz is correct on the other. Its just the universal symbol for "ground". Like your bridge plate and foil lining, (if you use it), stuff like that all connects there.
