My Very Complex Strat Schematic

[minions]

Complex Strat Mod

This is a Strat schematic that I am going to use on my custom Warmoth Strat but I am fairly new to wiring and just want to make sure that it makes sense, works, and is accurate.

I've incorporated various elements from wiring mods from the guitar wiring site 1728.com including Funky Five Switching, WolfWire Ultra Strat Mod, a Solo Switch as well as the Fender TBX tone control seen on Eric Clapton's and Buddy Guy's Strats. On the diagram, S/P stands for series/parallel switch.

I'm using two Strat single coils (the middle position is a hum-canceling DiMarzio pickup) and one Seymour Duncan P-Rails Humbucker.

The features include:
• 3 On/Off SPST Switches for each pickup
• 2 SPDT Switches for the P-Rails for:
- Rail Coil
- P-90 Coil
- Both Coils in Series
- Both Coils in Parallel
• Phase Reversal Switch for the bridge pickup
• Series/Parallel Switch for all pickups
• Treble-Bleed Master Volume,
• TBX Tone Control





Thanks.

 

[ratherdashing]

Re: My Very Complex Strat Schematic

Wow. This is going to take some time to digest.

Right off the bat it looks like the series/parallel switch isn't going to do what you think it will.

It also looks like the neck pickup can only be on when the bridge pickup is on.

I will post more as it comes to me.

 

[uOpt]

Re: My Very Complex Strat Schematic

The way that I do in-series in a three-pickup guitar is that I have a switch (or push-pull) that puts the bridge pickup in series with the 5-way switch.

This also modularizes the whole thing, you don't have to integrate it into the same schematics.

 

[minions]

Re: My Very Complex Strat Schematic

The way that I do in-series in a three-pickup guitar is that I have a switch (or push-pull) that puts the bridge pickup in series with the 5-way switch.

This also modularizes the whole thing, you don't have to integrate it into the same schematics.

The problem with that is that I don't get the seven pickup selections with a 5-way switch.

 

[uOpt]

Re: My Very Complex Strat Schematic

Well, whether you use a 5-way or individual on-offs for pickup selection, you can still wire it so that the bridge pickup can be put into series with the pickup selection block.

 

[minions]

Re: My Very Complex Strat Schematic

Oh really? That's good. How would I do that?

 

[uOpt]

Re: My Very Complex Strat Schematic

I have a drawing at home, but it is pretty easy once you treat everything that is only concerned with the bridge pickup as one block, and then the section with the pickup selector as another block. Then you just follow the normal in-series/parallel wiring in between.

 

[minions]

Re: My Very Complex Strat Schematic

Okay, so with that technique, would I get series/parallel options for all pickups, or would the neck and middle be in parallel, while the bridge is in series?

 

[uOpt]

Re: My Very Complex Strat Schematic

The latter.

You can put the bridge in series against neck, middle or neck+middle. Neck and middle are always parallel to each other.

Of course you can apply this to a pickup other than the bridge if you prefer a different limitation.

Or you can even do it on both ends of the pickup selection section.

 

[minions]

Re: My Very Complex Strat Schematic

Or you can even do it on both ends of the pickup selection section.

You mean, one switch to make the bridge in series and another to make the neck in series?

 

[uOpt]

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Yeah. Of course then the pickup selector section is only useful in the middle-only position.

I would recommend doing this step by step and start with one and when that works re-do the next.

 

[minions]

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Ok wait wait. These switches would be what, SPST? Then switching them would either turn the bridge (or neck) pickup off or turn it on in series?

 

[uOpt]

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Ok wait wait. These switches would be what, SPST? Then switching them would either turn the bridge (or neck) pickup off or turn it on in series?

Of course the serialized pickup would be removed from the pickup selection section while in series.

It wouldn't make sense to have the bridge pickup selected on the pickup selection section with the bride pickup in the series position.

 

[Diego]

Re: My Very Complex Strat Schematic

This gives me a headache.

 

[minions]

Re: My Very Complex Strat Schematic

So what, hypothetically, would happen if I wired my guitar in the way it shows in my schematic and a flipped the S/P (series/parallel) switch?

 

[JordanM82]

Re: My Very Complex Strat Schematic

I just went cross eyed....

Geez man... looking for some complex sounds huh? What is the ideal scenario you are looking for, maybe we should start with that and then we can help you get there in the simplest way...

-J

 

[subanots]

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this is nonsense, this "schematic"....


(imo, of course )

 

[minions]

Re: My Very Complex Strat Schematic

I got most of it from

http://www.1728.com/guitar2.htm

 

[uOpt]

Re: My Very Complex Strat Schematic

So what, hypothetically, would happen if I wired my guitar in the way it shows in my schematic and a flipped the S/P (series/parallel) switch?

The intention is to have all three in series, right?

I don't see how the switch in the upper position has the signal, which does middle->switch->neck->bridge ever makes it out of the bridge pickup into hot. ETA: actually it's directly at hot. Might work.

I also think it's useless, it'll be too dark with all three in series.

 

[minions]

Re: My Very Complex Strat Schematic

I also think it's useless, it'll be too dark with all three in series.

What do you mean by "dark"?