Pickup and Wiring Changes on my PRS Swamp Ash Special SE

[Butch Snyder]

Stock pickups are not great. I'm going to replace them with the following:

Bridge - SH-11 Custom Custom
Middle - APS-1 Alnico 2 Pro
Neck - SH-PG1n Pearly Gates Neck model

Right now, the stock pickups have this funky switching going on that I don't really care for. When I swap the pickups, I would like to do this with the switching:

The guitar has a three-way toggle. I would want that wired like normal (typical LP wiring). The tone pot is actually a push-pull pot. I would like to wire it to where it engages/disengages the middle pickup. Can someone help me with a wiring diagram for that? I checked the Duncan wiring site and there was nothing there that was applicable.

 

[ehdwuld]

Do you want volume control on the middle pickup as well as tone?

 

[Butch Snyder]

Do you want volume control on the middle pickup as well as tone?

same master vol and tone as with the other pickups. I just want the push pull pot to engage/disengage the middle pickup. When it is "on", I want to be able to control the volume and tone just like with the other pickups.

 

[Mincer]

Those are some awesome pickup choices.

 

[ehdwuld]

I believe any two humbucker with a toggle 1v 1t

then the the hot from the middle pickup directly to the volume pot where the in from the toggle switch come in

Wire the middle pickup ground to back of volume pot

I can't draw it out for you right now

 

[ehdwuld]

Is the APS 1 s the single coils sized stacked humbucker that is close to the Jazz in sound?

 

[Mincer]

Is the APS 1 s the single coils sized stacked humbucker that is close to the Jazz in sound?

It is a true single coil. Read about it here.

 

[Butch Snyder]

I believe any two humbucker with a toggle 1v 1t

then the the hot from the middle pickup directly to the volume pot where the in from the toggle switch come in

Wire the middle pickup ground to back of volume pot

I can't draw it out for you right now

I don't think I quite understand what you're saying. There is a push/pull tone pot that I want to use to engage/disengage the middle pickup. But I need the middle pickup's volume and tone, when engaged, to be controlled by the master volume and pots. I also need to open up the control cavity to see what kind of push/pull pot is there.

 

[ehdwuld]

The hot from the middle pickup to the push pull switch
then to the volume pot where the wire from the toggle ( the other pickups) come in

 

[ehdwuld]

Directly to the volume put via the push pull

 

[Butch Snyder]

Her is a shot of the control cavity. I have two of the replacement pickups. I just ordered my SH-11. I might as well start the wiring process since the SH-11 will be wired standard.

 

[Butch Snyder]

Here's a diagram of the push-pull tone pot.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Hot wire from middle pup to "B". Then a wire from "A" to input lug of vol pot. When the p/p is down, the middle pup is not on. When the p/p is up, the middle pup is on. The 3-way and the other 2 pups work as normal.
Is that what you had in mind?

By the way, excellent choice of pups!

 

[Butch Snyder]

Hot wire from middle pup to "B". Then a wire from "A" to input lug of vol pot. When the p/p is down, the middle pup is not on. When the p/p is up, the middle pup is on. The 3-way and the other 2 pups work as normal.
Is that what you had in mind?

By the way, excellent choice of pups!

Sounds exactly like what I'm after. I imagine all pickup ground wires go to a common ground (volume pot).

 

[jeremy]

yes, common grounds. all you are doing is adding the hot wire from the middle pup into the circuit when you pull up

 

[GuitarDoc]

The diagram looks like the hot and ground wires are reversed on the vol pot.

 

[Butch Snyder]

The diagram looks like the hot and ground wires are reversed on the vol pot.

Better?

 

[GuitarDoc]

That looks better. This will give you "modern tone". If you want "vintage tone", just move the wire that goes from the vol pot to the tone pot over to the middle lug on the vol pot...so the tone pot and the jack are connected to the same lug on the vol pot.

 

[Butch Snyder]

That looks better. This will give you "modern tone". If you want "vintage tone", just move the wire that goes from the vol pot to the tone pot over to the middle lug on the vol pot...so the tone pot and the jack are connected to the same lug on the vol pot.

What is modern tone vs vintage tone with respect to the sound and the wiring here? I don't think I've ever heard that before.

 

[jeremy]

modern vs 50s wiring for the tone pot