SD SL59 with 5 Way Split Wiring

Re: SD SL59 with 5 Way Split Wiring

It's not possible to have the middle tone work for both the bridge and the middle pickup at the same time with this diagram, because it uses the side of the selector that would normally allow for that to do the splitting stuff instead. You could move the tone from the middle to the bridge and have no middle pickup tone control, or have a single global tone control.
 
Re: SD SL59 with 5 Way Split Wiring

If I connect the bridge tone to the 1st tone pot middle lug and move the neck tone wire to the 2nd tone pot will I be able to control neck and middle tone from the 2nd tone pot
 
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Re: SD SL59 with 5 Way Split Wiring

No, the problem is that if you have two pickups use the same tone control, their positive leads will be touching each other no matter where you have the selector switch positioned, so you'd hear neck+middle in positions 3, 4 and 5, and all three pickup in position 2, which is not what you want. Normally it's possible to use half the selector switch to prevent that from happening, but it's repurposed in this diagram. If you installed a super switch, it would be possible, but then the wiring is not as straight forward at that point.

If it were up to me, I'd just create a single global tone control, and then use the leftover pot for something else.
 
Re: SD SL59 with 5 Way Split Wiring

yes, I would follow this and create one tone for everything
http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=1lil1v1t5w3s

can you give me some idea what I use the remaining pot for, can I connect a a wire from the bridge selector to the remaining pot, I'd hate to have the pot sir there un wired :-), sorry for my ignorance, nob here, never new a strat would sound like this with the 59s, m loving it
 
Re: SD SL59 with 5 Way Split Wiring

You could do a blending pot, or a global mid cut, or a global bass cut, or a multiple cap value selector, among other thing. A global tone control with a multiple cap selector is what I have going on most of my Strats.
 
Re: SD SL59 with 5 Way Split Wiring

can you point me to the wiring for global mid cut, or a global bass cut, I would follow the above diagram for global tone control, blending pot requires stacked pots right? can you shed some light on multiple cap selector wiring, will it require rotary switch or something
 
Re: SD SL59 with 5 Way Split Wiring

Here's a bass roll off. I recommend no greater than a .001 uF cap, you don't get as much bass cut action if you go any higher. I use 680pF for bass cuts. You don't have to use a 1 meg pot either, you can use the pot that's already in the guitar and it should work fine.

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I can't find a "mid cut" diagram on Google, but it's basically the same as an ordinary tone control with one of these transformers in series with the capacitor http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LUDW76Q?redirect=true&ref_=cm_cr_ryp_prd_ttl_sol_0. I've found that .047 uF caps work the best for this, the same value of pot that comes stock in most Strats.

This diagram shows a mid cut control that's a little over complicated in that it also has a capacitor selector in the mix, so in your mind just replace that selector with a single .047 cap, and then it shows you which leads from the inductor/transformer you make use of. If you use the middle lead, it only employs half the coil, where as the outer lead allows the circuit to use the full coil. I found that using the full coil sounded the best by far, and that with the half-coil option it causes way too much treble to be lost and so it was basically no different than a standard tone control.

The diagram also shows a 50k pot right before going to ground, but again the value doesn't really matter, and the pot can go before or after the cap+inductor combo, it doesn't make a difference.

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Re: SD SL59 with 5 Way Split Wiring

ascianabhro said:
out to Volume control is ground?
Click to expand...

In reference to the bass cut? The is no ground involved. Currently you have a single positive lead wire going from the pickup selector to the volume pot, you would cut that wire and insert that diagram in between the selector and volume.

Alternatively you can put this between the volume pot and that output jack, yet again, the diagram is more specific than it has to be. If you put the diagram between a pickup and the pickup selector, that you can bass cut a single pickup, which is often useful for muddy neck pickups.
 
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