Liberator question

[RRJackson]

Hopefully I'm not posting in the wrong place, but with my luck this is probably the one place where Liberator questions are strictly verboten.

A customer of mine has sent me pickups for a pair of guitars I'm getting ready for him. They're both getting Custom Customs in the bridge position and Pearly Gates neck pickups. It's a single-knob affair using a Liberator volume pot/terminal setup, but he also sent along a mini-switch and he wants the switch to split the pickups leaving the outside coils active when the switch is thrown. Any suggestions for how to wire this up using the Liberator terminal block? Any trial and error I can save myself would really be appreciated.

Oh, I'll attach a photo of the guitar style its going into. These are a neck-through model I call the Ignatz.

-Rob

 

[darthphineas]

Re: Liberator question

From what I remember from the instructions on the one I bought, you wire the output of the Liberator up to any switches as if it's an extension of the pup wires. The advantage of the liberator is to make swapping out pickups a little easier. So get the liberator all wired up to the switches and then connect the pickups to the liberator.

I think it is Franks invention, so to speak, so maybe he will swing by at some point to give you a better explanation.


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[Artie]

Re: Liberator question

^ You're explanation is perfect. That's exactly right. You wire up the "Liberator" wires as if they were the pup wires. Once it's all done, you do the pups with a screwdriver.

 

[RRJackson]

Re: Liberator question

From what I remember from the instructions on the one I bought, you wire the output of the Liberator up to any switches as if it's an extension of the pup wires. The advantage of the liberator is to make swapping out pickups a little easier. So get the liberator all wired up to the switches and then connect the pickups to the liberator.

I think it is Franks invention, so to speak, so maybe he will swing by at some point to give you a better explanation.


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Cool. I appreciate the heads-up. Haven't used one of these before and wanted to make sure I wasn't missing a fast-and-easy way to do it up right out of the terminal block.

BTW, I'm looking forward to finding out how this stuff sounds in one of my guitars. This is the first time Duncan pups have found their way into an Ignatz.

-Rob

 

[Artie]

Re: Liberator question

Hey RR. I justed wanted to clarify, . . . the benefit of the Liberator system is in the 2nd or 3rd pup change. The 1st time, it's no advantage over doing the install the normal way. For example, if one were to know what pups they wanted, and never wanted to change them, the Liberator would be of no value. Just an FYI.

 

[RRJackson]

Re: Liberator question

Hey RR. I justed wanted to clarify, . . . the benefit of the Liberator system is in the 2nd or 3rd pup change. The 1st time, it's no advantage over doing the install the normal way. For example, if one were to know what pups they wanted, and never wanted to change them, the Liberator would be of no value. Just an FYI.

Gotcha. I can see how it could be really handy if you wanted to try out a variety of different pickups. I may end up putting one in my own personal Ignatz, which currently has a Tone Zone and a hot Artec P.A.F. clone (called a "Double Black") in the neck. It would be nice to be able to quickly swap out pickups to try out different things.

The only drawback to the Liberator (for my application, anyway) is that the board is wider than the Ignatz control cavity, so I'm about to do a little routing. I don't think I'll need to widen it enough to have to make a new cover, though. Just a little off the back, so to speak. Heh...

-Rob