Matthew Hall
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Hello everybody. I have a query regarding wiring that I have trawled through the internet for weeks without solving. I am hoping there is someone here who can help! I have been coming here for years but never had anything new or useful to add to anything, so this is my first actual post. :nervous:
I have an Epiphone Les Paul that I love, but the bridge pickup was faulty, I replaced it, but now the pickups are mismatched and I was thinking of Stealth P90's, when I came across "stacked" P90's. They can be wired in series, parallel, split for top coil or bottom coil. Basically, the Jimmy Page wiring.
Now, I have done something similar with a Strat, using three push pull pots, and it is great fun but you do end up "dancing" on the knobs to get from one sound to another, and due to the top hat type knobs, I have to set them high in order to get my fingertips under the knob to pull them up so they sit higher than I would like. So....
On the LP, I wanted to have two volumes for independent volume control of the pickups, a master tone pot for both of them in the bridge pickup position, and the neck tone pot turned into a rotary selector that will series / parallel / coil split both the neck and the bridge stacked P90's, utilising the existing 3 way pickup selector switch. Having the ability to roll the pot rapidly through the tonal variancies whilst playing could create some interesting tonal effects as well, impossible to do with push pull pots.
I have tried adapting a PRS wiring diagram, and failed. I have tried adapting a Jimmy Page 4 push pull pots diagram and failed horribly. I have searched Seymour Duncan thoroughly and failed to find what I need, which is a first! I cannot work out how to do this, partly because I have never wired in a rotary pot before, and partly because I am rubbish at working out complex schematics so get my electrician mate to work out and draw it for me, but he can't work out the schematic either.
I want the guitar to look completely standard, but have humbucker capability and all the various tones accessible via the rotary selector disguised as a tone pot. I'm not particularly bothered about phasing the pickups which I did on my strat with some really odd, and useless tones resulting. It would be nice if it was easy, but it is not important.
Can anyone point me in the right direction, or link to a schematic that could be adapted fairly easily? I can find push pull pot diagrams, and I can find rotary switching diagrams, but not a jimmy page with a rotary option. It must be possible, but it's beyond me.
Thanks in advance,
Matt.
I have an Epiphone Les Paul that I love, but the bridge pickup was faulty, I replaced it, but now the pickups are mismatched and I was thinking of Stealth P90's, when I came across "stacked" P90's. They can be wired in series, parallel, split for top coil or bottom coil. Basically, the Jimmy Page wiring.
Now, I have done something similar with a Strat, using three push pull pots, and it is great fun but you do end up "dancing" on the knobs to get from one sound to another, and due to the top hat type knobs, I have to set them high in order to get my fingertips under the knob to pull them up so they sit higher than I would like. So....
On the LP, I wanted to have two volumes for independent volume control of the pickups, a master tone pot for both of them in the bridge pickup position, and the neck tone pot turned into a rotary selector that will series / parallel / coil split both the neck and the bridge stacked P90's, utilising the existing 3 way pickup selector switch. Having the ability to roll the pot rapidly through the tonal variancies whilst playing could create some interesting tonal effects as well, impossible to do with push pull pots.
I have tried adapting a PRS wiring diagram, and failed. I have tried adapting a Jimmy Page 4 push pull pots diagram and failed horribly. I have searched Seymour Duncan thoroughly and failed to find what I need, which is a first! I cannot work out how to do this, partly because I have never wired in a rotary pot before, and partly because I am rubbish at working out complex schematics so get my electrician mate to work out and draw it for me, but he can't work out the schematic either.
I want the guitar to look completely standard, but have humbucker capability and all the various tones accessible via the rotary selector disguised as a tone pot. I'm not particularly bothered about phasing the pickups which I did on my strat with some really odd, and useless tones resulting. It would be nice if it was easy, but it is not important.
Can anyone point me in the right direction, or link to a schematic that could be adapted fairly easily? I can find push pull pot diagrams, and I can find rotary switching diagrams, but not a jimmy page with a rotary option. It must be possible, but it's beyond me.
Thanks in advance,
Matt.
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I discovered the uselessness of split coils in parallel with the phased middle pickup on a strat, but it's still a nice thing to have just for goggles.