Series/Parallel strat wiring?

[Guitar Toad]

My JV Strat has the following control scheme: Master Volume, Tone 1 Neck, Tone 2 Bridge. Middle Pickup is “Wide Open”, No Tone Control. Does this wide open middle pickup produce advantages for better quack than other schemes. Since this is my first strat, I don’t have any thing experience by which to compare it against except what I hear in recordings. I get some nice quack from it.

I do have a couple of modifications in mind that I want to do. One, I want to wire position 3 such that it's neck plus bridge. I can get the neck plus bridge just by changing a couple wires, right? And two I want middle plus bridge series/parallel switching. And I could get this m+b series/parallel by putting a push/pull tone pot on the bridge tone pot, right? Can someone provide a schematic for me to do this?

My understanding is that a fatter humbucker-like tone can be obtained by putting the m+b in parallel. Am I getting this right?

Are there a better options than the ones that I have proposed here?

Thanks for you assistance and comments with this.

 

[Erlend_G]

Re: Series/Parallel strat wiring?

Well, i believe putting the M + B in SERIES would give you that humbucker tone, i believe that they are wired in paralell as stock .

Other than that, i know nothing. I'm dumb

 

[Guitar Toad]

Re: Series/Parallel strat wiring?

Well, i believe putting the M + B in SERIES would give you that humbucker tone, i believe that they are wired in paralell as stock .

Other than that, i know nothing. I'm dumb

yes, I was afraid that I was getting the series/parallel terminology wrong. Thanks to the Norwegian bro.

 

[Guitar Toad]

Re: Series/Parallel strat wiring?

Help Artiee.

 

[Artie]

Re: Series/Parallel strat wiring?

I've got my eyes on this thread.

There was another question, almost identical to this one, not too long ago. I'm trying to find it.

Also, I have a different solution that might work real well. I'm going to try it on my own Strat right now. Be back shortly.

 

[bert123]

Re: Series/Parallel strat wiring?

Someone posted a link to Deaf Eddie Fat-O-Caster Switch when someone asked about Fender's S1 switch. You lose a tone control for the switch.

 

[gripweed]

Re: Series/Parallel strat wiring?

Someone posted a link to Deaf Eddie Fat-O-Caster Switch when someone asked about Fender's S1 switch. You lose a tone control for the switch.

That was me! I haven't tried it though. Once I get my Les Paul into shape thats my next project!

 

[Artie]

Re: Series/Parallel strat wiring?

I want to wire position 3 such that it's neck plus bridge. I can get the neck plus bridge just by changing a couple wires, right?

Sorta.

Here's two different ways to do this depending on what you like. I have my Genny done the first way, and my Strat done the second way.

Method 1. Reverse the neck and middle hot wires on the 5-way. This will give you this:

1. middle
2. neck and middle
3. neck
4. neck and bridge
5. bridge.

I keep it straight in my head this way: With the 5-way handle straight up, I have the neck. Moving forward is like a 3-way with the middle. Moving back is like a 3-way with the bridge. Works great. Simple mod. I love it.

Method 2. I wired up the neck and bridge to the first two lugs of my 5-way, then added a toggle to replace one of the tone controls, to switch in the middle at any time. So I have:

1. neck
2. neck and bridge
3. bridge
4. bridge and middle (assumes that the middle toggle is "on".)
5. middle or "off" (depending on the postion of the middle toggle.)

Since I can switch in the middle at any time, I still retain the classic #2 and #4 "notch" positions just by turning on the middle when the switch is the #1 or #3 positions. Plus, I gain the ability to have all three pups on when in the #2 position. And, by using the #5 position, I still have my middle pup by itself.

I love that switch setup also. btw - I'm using an on-off-on DPDT with a tapped SSL-6 in the middle, so I can have the single full-on, or classsic Strat at any time. Its great.

Artie

 

[MattPete]

Re: Series/Parallel strat wiring?

Artie helped me with a wiring diagram about a year ago. If you search the forum, you may be able to find it. Anyway, it goes like this:

Tele 4-way switch:
bridge
middle
neck
bridge + neck (parallel).

3-way minitoggle:
down: adds middle in series to what ever is selected on the Tele 4-way.
middle: does nothing
up: adds middle in parallel to whatever is selected on the Tele 4-way.

 

[Fresh_Start]

Re: Series/Parallel strat wiring?

Here's a long thread that covers almost all of the bases regarding possible wiring alternatives for a strat: https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?t=31295&highlight=hastings

Bridge/neck in series is my favorite, neck & middle is good too, but bridge & middle in series is my least favorite of the three. The "Hastings" mod shown in this thread https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?t=36955&highlight=hastings looks really good - simple & effective.

Can't find a simple parallel/series switch right now. The one in the S-D schematics is less than perfect IMHO.

Chip