on/off/on

[Mojoe01]

I saw an on/off/on switch, and I was wondering what kind of applications that could have with a guitar. If I understand it correctly, does it basically work the same as a 3-way switch, except the middle position is off? In other words, could I wire it so that the 1st position is the bridge pickup, the 3rd position is the neck pickup, and the middle position is a kill switch?

And if that is in fact how it works, would it then be possible to wire a humbucker to it in such a way that one side would be the full humbucker, the other side one coil of it, and the middle position turns it off?

 

[idsnowdog]

Re: on/off/on

If you have humbuckers you can use on/off/on switches for series/off/parallel switching. Technically in the middle position the pickup is in split mode and you get a small amount of signal leakage despite being in the off position. The majority of my multi-humbucker guitars are wired with on/off/on switches and wired for series/off/parallel.

 

[Despair]

Re: on/off/on

Some people like to wire their individual pickups with out of phase/off/in phase switches. Tom Anderson used to do a lot of superstrats like that.

Has some advantages, like being able to access bridge + neck out of phase. But without individual volume controls for each pickup, out of phase isn't all that well loved. Then you get into individual tone controls, and your guitar starts looking more like an analog synth control panel.

Still, can be pretty neat for someone who wants one guitar that does everything possible.

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: on/off/on

on my buddy's strat
with a hum on the bridge
I wired an on/off/on switch for the "bridge always" on mod

up = bridge split always on
middle = nothing - standard strat wiring
down = bridge hum always on

just a take on splitting the pickup