Really easy HSS Wiring question

[ThreeChordWonder]

PS regular tone pots are just rudimentary low pass filters anyway, dumping more or less treble to ground, so they only ever bleed off treble.

 

[Jack_TriPpEr]

^As I said, the bridge tone only works in P-1, in all other positions the other tone pot takes over.

In P-2 the bridge and middle are connected to the neck/mid tone:

Bridge Hot >> C-2 >> C-COM >> D-COM >> D-2/3/4 >> B-2/3/4 >> B-COM >> Tone Pot

Mid Hot >> D-2/3/4 >> B-2/3/4 >> B-COM.

If you want the Bridge Tone to work in both "Bridge on" positions, connect the bridge tone across C-1or C-2, which are linked so it doesn't matter which.

By extension, if that works, you could connect the mid/neck tone to C-4/5 and D-2/3/4 and do away with Bank B entirely. I'll have to look at that later today.

My earlier comment didn't say anything about the Bridge tone pot.

What i said was that in Position 2 of your new scheme, the Bridge pup seemed to be disconnected from the tone pot. I believed it to be disconnected because the scheme required two signals to run in opposite directions concurrently on the same wire (starting at the jumper from C Common to D Common), and I did not think that was possible. However the link below states that it is possible. I don't have an electrical engineering degree so exotic scenarios like that throw me off sometimes.

https://electronics.stackexchange.co...ions-on-the-sa


Anyways, i now retract my earlier concern about Position 2.

 

[ThreeChordWonder]

I have got halfway through figuring out a schematic where both tones are active in P-2, but they always end up being cross-linked. That is, I can't confine the bridge tone to just the bridge, and the mid tone to just the mid. P-3 is fine because the bridge is disconnected, P-4 and P-5 are fine because they're sharing a tone pot anyway (and the bridge is disconnected).

It may be that with the limitations of the superswitch having the bridge tone active in P-1 only and the neck/mid tone taking over for P-2 onwards is as good as you're going to get. Either that or I should stick to building oil platforms.

I'll keep thinking on it though.

BtW - My dugrea is in mekanikewal injunearring (Brunel, London, 84-88). Back in 1988 of course, everything ran on steam...

 

[Jack_TriPpEr]

I have got halfway through figuring out a schematic where both tones are active in P-2, but they always end up being cross-linked.

It may be that with the limitations of the superswitch having the bridge tone active in P-1 only and the neck/mid tone taking over for P-2 onwards is as good as you're going to get.

I'll keep thinking on it though.

My dugrea is in mekanikewal injunearring tho... (Brunel, BEng (Hons), London, 84-88). Back in 1988 of course, everything ran on steam...

Your reply seems to indicate that you still think that I was saying the design should have both tone pots active in Position 2, even though I tried explaining in my last reply that that is not what I was trying to convey. And on top of it, in my opinion, having more than 1 tone pot active at the same time is undesirable. But i imagine based on how the last couple replies have gone, a misunderstanding will remain. Oh well.

 

[ThreeChordWonder]

Well, you started it...

 

[Jack_TriPpEr]

Well, you started it...

Yep, my prediction was correct. Now if only I could figure out how to make money based on my predictions...

 

[ThreeChordWonder]

One final thing that occurs to me, given 1 tone pot controls four positions anyway, I'd just to wire it as a master tone, then use the third pot as a neck blender, either just for P-5 (giving the OP the mighty double humbucker experience) or even P-4 and P-5.

 

[IMENATOR]

Short answer: It is not, but you can easily do the super famous Strat mod to move the tone knob from middle to bridge. OR you can just keep a single master tone knob and use the 3rd knob position for something else like a kill switch or whatever you want as long there is room in the cavity.

 

[Jack_TriPpEr]

BTW, here is that diagram I mentioned I had seen previously, that uses a superswitch to allow the Bridge to have its own Tone Control and without requiring Position 2 to be doubleloaded with tone pots. This design also has a nice added feature where it forces the bridge humbucker to sed the 500K Master Volume as 250K when the Bridge pickup gets coilsplit in Position 2.

https://www.guitar-mod.com/strat.html