Rotary switch education.

[St_Genesius]

Re: Rotary switch education.

Well, I redid those. No effect.

One other symptom, that I didn't notice before: in the middle position, but NOT in the other two, I get a fairly loud hum if I'm not touching some pice of metal (or the strings), like the grounding isn't working in that position. It sounds exactly like if you leave your amp on and drop the plugged-in cable on the floor.

 

[Artie]

Re: Rotary switch education.

I'm beginning to wonder if we haven't gotten messed up because of the color codes being different. I'm not sure you can just reverse green and black in that diagram. Is there any possibility that you could email me the GFS wiring diagram?

btw - My presense here, this weekend, will be spotty. Its my 8th wedding anniversary and I believe the lil woman wants some attention.

Artie

 

[St_Genesius]

Re: Rotary switch education.

I don't have any way of scanning the GFS diagram, but I can describe it as best I can and give you the exact wording of it.

It's just a picture of a pickup, with three lines coming out of it, representing the four conductors. At the top of the pickup is a green line and the words "+ (Hot) Green." In between the two coils is a red and white striped line, representing both the red and white wires, and the words "Untapped (Red, White)" and directly underneath that "Coil Tap (R/W to Ground). At the bottom of the pickup is a black line and the words "- (Ground) Black/Shield."

On the bottom of the sheet it says this:

"Connect Red and White Wire together. Tape these off for full humbucker performance, connect to ground for Coil Tap. This will engage ONLY the neck side coil. Connect green to + output, Black and Silver (Shield) to - output. (Ground"

That's all it says.

 

[Artie]

Re: Rotary switch education.

Cool. Thats all I need to know. I'm still on my first cup of coffee, but I'll look over that diagram again and get back to you before the days over.

Artie

 

[St_Genesius]

Re: Rotary switch education.

Just to be safe, I emailed Jay at GuitarFetish to make sure that this pickup WAS capable of doing what I'm asking of it (in case there was something idiosyncratic about the way the pcikup was wired internally...) and he said that it should work just fine.

Would it be possible to get the results I'm seeing if I had accidentally shifted all the solder points one spot (in either direction)? The switch itself doesn't have the clear breaks between groups of three that the drawing does. I THOUGHT I was able to easily tell what was what based on the pisiton on the center lugs, but...

 

[St_Genesius]

Re: Rotary switch education.

Artie, I got it fixed. I got a second reply back from Jay this morning and he mentioend that the pickup would be out of pahse with Duncans/DiMarzios etc. Now, that didn't apply much to me because this is a single pup guitar, but it got me thinking. What if I need to swap the red and white wires as well as the green and black? I tried it and it worked. I don't know WHY it worked, because I don't understand the theory behind any of this stuff, but it works.

And the parallel setting is the prettiest of the three.

Thanks so much for your help, Artie.

 

[Artie]

Re: Rotary switch education.

Cool. Thats along the line of what I was gonna suggest next, I just wanted to look the diagram over first just to make sure I wasn't causing you any undue soldering.

Glad it finally came together.

Artie

 

[St_Genesius]

Re: Rotary switch education.

I was surprised to find that the humbucker in parallel mode is actually brighter and livlier than the split tone. The split tone is (only slightly) lower in output, and actually has a bit more pronounced mids than the parallel mode. The overall effect is that the split tone sounds a little flat by comparison, but I can still see some use for it in those moments when I want a thin, weak sound -- like when I'm trying to fit entirely too many guitar tracks into a single song...