Hey everyone, this is my first post in this forum. Anyways I recently bought a JB Jr. and a Lil 59 to put in my epiphone strat style guitar. I put the Jb Jr. in the bridge and the Lil 59 in the neck and am not using a middle pickup. I wired it with a push/pull pot for switching between humbucking and single coil. I dont know if i did this right bc each pickup sounds the same no matter what i do with the push/pull. Also, I had some trouble reading the schematics for with the 5 way selector. I was maybe thinking of replacing the 5 way selector with a 3 way. Would anyone be able to help with explaining of how to do the wiring. Also, there is a great loud hiss when Im at a high gain setting, but when i turn the middle tone nob down the hiss goes away. Does this mean I need to replace the pot? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Questions about wiring with Push/Pull Pot
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tone4days
Heel Whacker
Re: Questions about wiring with Push/Pull Pot
welcome to the forum
you will have to tell us more about how you wired them to the push/pull in order for us to help diagnose the problem .. basically, you should have the green wire on one terminal and also to ground, the red and white wires on the other terminal and the black going to the switch ... when you pull the pot up, it should short the red/white to ground leaving only one coil active
as for the 5 way, how are you wiring it if there is no middle pickup? what combinations are you hoping to get? .. if you only want 3 combinations, switching to a 3-way is probably a good idea
let us know more and we will be happy to help more
cheers
t4d
welcome to the forum
you will have to tell us more about how you wired them to the push/pull in order for us to help diagnose the problem .. basically, you should have the green wire on one terminal and also to ground, the red and white wires on the other terminal and the black going to the switch ... when you pull the pot up, it should short the red/white to ground leaving only one coil active
as for the 5 way, how are you wiring it if there is no middle pickup? what combinations are you hoping to get? .. if you only want 3 combinations, switching to a 3-way is probably a good idea
let us know more and we will be happy to help more
cheers
t4d
Re: Questions about wiring with Push/Pull Pot
I basically followed this schematic http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/schematics/3lil_hum_1v_2t_5w_3splits.html
But just completely left out the middle pick up stuff, so I dont know if that messed anything up. I also was confused by the 5 way selector in the picture. I had trouble figuring out what went where. So I dont even know if i did that right.
I basically followed this schematic http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/schematics/3lil_hum_1v_2t_5w_3splits.html
But just completely left out the middle pick up stuff, so I dont know if that messed anything up. I also was confused by the 5 way selector in the picture. I had trouble figuring out what went where. So I dont even know if i did that right.
tone4days
Heel Whacker
Re: Questions about wiring with Push/Pull Pot
that looks very cool, but very complicated and not a perfect match for your scenario
if you didnt get the 5-way correct, i bet the whole thing would act kinda dodgy
and given that you dont have a middle pickup to worry about, i'd wire the push/pull the way i recommended .. one pickup on each side of the switch
good luck
t4d
that looks very cool, but very complicated and not a perfect match for your scenario
if you didnt get the 5-way correct, i bet the whole thing would act kinda dodgy
and given that you dont have a middle pickup to worry about, i'd wire the push/pull the way i recommended .. one pickup on each side of the switch
good luck
t4d
