Jimmie Vaughan Wiring advantages vs. No-Load?

[gregory]

Re: Jimmie Vaughan Wiring advantages vs. No-Load?

Only the treble? You must use a very small cap. Even a 22-nan cap will carve at the mids significantly.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Jimmie Vaughan Wiring advantages vs. No-Load?

Only the treble? You must use a very small cap. Even a 22-nan cap will carve at the mids significantly.

Oy Vey! :smack::smack::smack:

 

[gregory]

Re: Jimmie Vaughan Wiring advantages vs. No-Load?

Where do you think the corner frequency is of the parallel combination of your bridge and neck pickups with a 22-nan cap?

...or was I being too fastidious?

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: Jimmie Vaughan Wiring advantages vs. No-Load?

I think the key point that it affects both pickups is what is more germane.

 

[gregory]

Re: Jimmie Vaughan Wiring advantages vs. No-Load?

Your second point is exactly why I like the bridge to have a separate tone pot to position 2 as I'm likely to roll some tone off the bridge but not as likely to roll any off position 2.

I suppose when I think about your question of what I want to accomplish, it's just to have the setup that suits me best and the fact that many people have the JV/EJ wiring (and praise it) makes me wonder if there's any advantages I'm overlooking (and could possibly benefit from) as to me it seems the other wiring I suggested would give all the advantages of the JV/EJ but with improvements.

It just depends on your pickups and how you want each position to behave. If a standard switch forces you to make compromises then don't get one. Among others, no load and concentric pots provide additional options for tone sculpting.

 

[thegummy]

Re: Jimmie Vaughan Wiring advantages vs. No-Load?

Just to conclude this thread, I wired it up with my suggested wiring scheme and it seems great - initial thoughts are that this is going to be an ideal setup for a SSS Strat. Only thing I'm going to change is swapping the Fender No-Load tone pot (which came with the guitar) to a normal CTS No-Load because the Fender one clicks into position with an indent at 10 so requires a bit of force with the pinky rather than smoothly like the CTS one (or a normal pot).

Would definitely recommend this to anyone who fancies the JV/EJ wiring and doesn't mind paying a bit more for the extra components.

Note: for the switching just under the pickups in the diagram I've used an S1 switch but can obviously be any toggle switch.