Pickup wiring suggestions

[nebucanazza]

Hi All!This is my first post in this forum.Learning a lot here, and the people are all very helpful and knowledgable.

I am from India, sadly you dont get much guitar gear here, and that does not help my rampant GAS one bit. But I have managed to get my hand on some good stuff from the USA, enough for basic setup(I am a total beginner but already neck deep into gear geekiness )

I have a PRS copy made here in India by a local luthier(cost me around $200).The body is an unconventional teak wood,with a 24 fret maple/rosewood bolt-in neck, 2 vols, 1 tone and 5-way switch. It currently has two generic korean HBs(which were OK) but didnt take gain too well, were a bit muddy and shrill for my taste.Running it through a Rocktron Silver Dragon, Rocktron Short Timer and into a little MG15CD set on clean.

So, I got a Dimarzio Bluesbucker for the neck and Virtual Hot PAF for bridge, two 500K pots for volume and a 250K tone pot with 0.022uf Sprague OD cap.Ordered both in black but the VHPAF came in nickel by mistake, so now I am going for a cool reverse Page/Kosoff type look:fingersx:

I am looking to play blues, classic bluesy rock and some occasional metal.

So, can anyone suggest a good wiring scheme with all useful positions, keeping in mind the Bluesbucker's special construction.I had one scheme in mind:
Pos1: Neck HB
Pos2: Neck single coil
Pos3: Neck in parallel in series with Bridge in parallel
Pos4: neck single coil +bridge single coil in parallel
Pos5: Bridge HB
Are all these positions useful?And I guess I have no choice but a 5 way super switch(which I forgot to buy from the US and cant find here:smack

Here are some pics of my guitar:

 

[nebucanazza]

Re: Pickup wiring suggestions

Bump.

 

[nebucanazza]

Re: Pickup wiring suggestions

Someone..Anyone?:wave:
Any comments on the choice of a Bluesbucker neck and a VHPAF bridge combo in a bright 25.5" bolt-in guitar with teakwood body?Did I screw up on the selection?
On second thoughts, I am thinking of going in for a regular 3-way switch and a coil-splitter switch.

 

[octavedoctor]

Re: Pickup wiring suggestions

Sorry neb i haven't been around here for a few days, I had to defend my honour on the Bassworld.co.uk forum.

I'll take a look at the schematic and get back to you. The superswitch is probably the best option for what you want to do.

 

[octavedoctor]

Re: Pickup wiring suggestions

I'm not sure you'll be able to do the parallel humbuckers option...

 

[Zhangliqun]

Re: Pickup wiring suggestions

Get the superswitch from Stewart MacDonald (www.stewmac.com). You won't get the parallel option out of it but you can put in two push/pull pots for each pickup to switch from series to parallel.

 

[nebucanazza]

Re: Pickup wiring suggestions

Thanks for the replies,OctDoc and Zhang
I have kinda ditched the 5 way super-switch idea...
I'm now planning to go for a regular 3-way toggle and a separate coil-splitter switch, keeping things simple.There's this schematic for a 2HB, 2 vol, 1 tone 3-way switch with coil split among the Duncan site schematics.
I am guessing that I will get Neck, both pickups in parallel and bridge(in either HB or SC mode, depending on the splitter) from this combo?

 

[Jocelyn]

Re: Pickup wiring suggestions

Hi Nebu welcome to the forum. these pics of your Tulsi PRS are much better and clearer, then what I had seen before. (AHHHHHH You are giving me GAS). Ok Nebu honestly I think your Tulsi will look nice with the bridge pup covered adn the neck open, you had asked that Q on IGT and now ican ans with confidence. Glad you got that pickup selector sorted out too.
By the way how heavy is your guitar?

 

[octavedoctor]

Re: Pickup wiring suggestions

Yes I looked at the options you proposed and there aren't enough spare poles on the superswitch.

You could do it with a modular rotary though.

 

[nebucanazza]

Re: Pickup wiring suggestions

Thanks for looking it up Doc...
I have decided to stick with a simple 3-way switch and a DPDT coil splitter switch(will split both coils simultaneously)
@Jocelyn..yup I am sold on the covered uncovered combo, my guitar feels heavy considering the not-too-thick body,I dunno the exact weight.