Need a little help in an act of "sacrilege"...

Morior

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Hey people.


I am in some ways about to commit an act of sacrilege, by combining a pair of staggered Alnico II Pro's with a DiMarzio Tone Zone. :smokin:

I'm going to put this on a MIM Strat. I'll have a Shadow SH 123 push/pull potentiometer (this is the item that is the trouble, but more about that later) on it, which will be used as the volume knob (500 k), and for putting the coils of the Tone Zone in paralell instead of series, and two regular 250k noname tone knobs.

Now, the thing I need a little help with, is figuring out which connection points that shall be soldered. I am kind of puzzled, 'cause there is no numbering on it what so ever. I have got some schematics from seymourduncan.com and DiMarzio.com, but it's kind of... Well, soldering everything upside down would be kind of annoying. :P Soldering the ground where the hot leads were supposed to be gives an uncool sound. (Been there, done that. :smack: )


Anyways, these are the schematics I'm basing it off:

http://www.dimarzio.com/media/diagrams/4Conductor.pdf

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/schematics/1h_2s_1v_2t_5w_pp.html



And here's the trouble-maker:
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Re: Need a little help in an act of "sacrilege"...

Thanks. :) And points 1-6 would be counter-clockwise from the top left?
 
Re: Need a little help in an act of "sacrilege"...

Oh, and also, the DiMarzio schematic doesn't quite make sense to me. There are no leads connected to the pickup selector. :eek13:
 
Re: Need a little help in an act of "sacrilege"...

Use the Duncan diagram, but swap the red and black wires on the Tone Zone so that it works properly.

You may have to then swap the green and red if the TZ is out of phase with the middle single.
 
Re: Need a little help in an act of "sacrilege"...

Thanks. :)



And, of course.... I've got a complication... :P The switch I bought is a Schaller Megaswitch E. :P And I didn't realise it until... Well.... Until I realised it. :P

But I have figured it out. *is proud*
 
Re: Need a little help in an act of "sacrilege"...

I'm still in a bit of a haze. Could anyone help me figure out which connection points on the push/pull that are soldered to which leads on the humbucker for it to be a series/paralell thingy?




Bah, I sound like a whining brat. :banana:
 
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Re: Need a little help in an act of "sacrilege"...

check out www.guitarelectronics.com

They'll have a diagram for the mega switch and they have a lot of mini/push-pull switch diagrams too. find the 2 that are what you want and piece them together.

Hope that helps.
 
Re: Need a little help in an act of "sacrilege"...

Searched through the schematics. They didn't have aything about paralell switching using a push-pull. But thanks for trying. I really appreciate it.



I'm going to pull my **** together, and use everything I learned about electrophysics in physics class a bunch of years ago. Maybe that'll help. ;)
 
Re: Need a little help in an act of "sacrilege"...

Is it so that the push/pull circuit and the volume circuit of my push pull are two separate circuits? (meaning that I have to connect one or more of the lugs on the 6-lug thingy to one or more of the other three lugs on the potentiometer it is sitting on)
 
Re: Need a little help in an act of "sacrilege"...

Found a better schematic. On SeymourDuncan.com, big surprise. Or maybe not.

Anyways... here:

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Now, on the John Petrucci forum, i got this advice:

[quote="steveholix]ssentially, follow the single pickup shcematic for wiring up the pot's PC, but for the hot wire, replace it with the hot from the switch, and run the pickup's hot to the switch.[/quote]

Does that mean that I'm going to connect the north start/hot/whatever you want to call it (red DiMarzio, black Duncan) to the selector switch, and then run the switch's own hot to the number one multi-lug?


And also, what about the split?
 
Re: Need a little help in an act of "sacrilege"...

Hehehehehehe, thought I had it. Called my local shop, and followed the instructions I got pretty good, but probably not good enough. The only pickup I got sound out of was the humbucker, and it only worked in two of the wrong positions. The neck and neck/middle position. So it seems I wired the selector in the wrong way.


I'm delivering the guitar to the shop tomorrow.
 
Re: Need a little help in an act of "sacrilege"...

You call that sacralige? Dude - there a some real abominations out her, that isn't even close! Sounds like a cool combo to me, though....
 
Re: Need a little help in an act of "sacrilege"...

It WILL be cool. I have heard the Alnicos in another Strat, so I know somewhat how they will sound in mine (the other Strat had a different tone wood, so there will be a slight difference), and the Tone Zone was completely killer in the positions it actually worked in. BEFORE I had adjusted the height of the pickup. One a high E string. So it will probably kill small rodents in a mile's radius when the guitar is finished.


Also, it looks really cool. :smokin: Imagine a blue strat with some minor cracks in the laquer, with a pickguard that has faded from white to off-white because of sun exposure, with similarly coloured pickup bobbins, knobs that have faded in the same way as the guard, the paint in the numbers has oxidized from sweat, a black plastic thingy on the selector switch, and a black beast in the bridge position. :smokin: The black pickup goes so well with the rosewood fretboard.


And the paralell wiring rocked for soloing on one string. :smack: :dance:
 
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