Jeremy and Mincer, thank you for your pickup suggestions, my new build has rapidly gone from bench science project to first string (pun fully intended!) player in my guitar lineup. And thank you again Artie, for your switch wiring help on the 4PDT, not only does it work perfectly, your diagram was very clear and easy to follow! I love this forum!
Shout Out To Artie, Jeremy and Mincer!
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I think I may have created a monster! If my math is correct (always a fair question...), with all of my switching options, I believe that this guitar can output 144 discreet tones before it ever hits the tone circuitry:
2 Triple Shots, 4 tones per equals 8, combined I add 16 more possibilities for 24. The TS's are going through a series/parallel push/pull which then doubles the 24 to 48, then to the 3-way blade. Output of the blade goes to the 4PDT switch. My 4PDT switch allows me to add the center Classic Stack Plus to any one of those combinations in parallel (adds 48 more tones) or in series (+48), or turn the center off completely. It looks to me like 48 tones without the Stack, 48 with the Stack in series and 48 with the stack in parallel...am I seeing that correctly?
2 Triple Shots, 4 tones per equals 8, combined I add 16 more possibilities for 24. The TS's are going through a series/parallel push/pull which then doubles the 24 to 48, then to the 3-way blade. Output of the blade goes to the 4PDT switch. My 4PDT switch allows me to add the center Classic Stack Plus to any one of those combinations in parallel (adds 48 more tones) or in series (+48), or turn the center off completely. It looks to me like 48 tones without the Stack, 48 with the Stack in series and 48 with the stack in parallel...am I seeing that correctly?
Juanhanglo
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120 you say? Most i had the guts to actually install in a guitar was between 15 and 30 maybe in an hsh strat?
I stopped there as there was redundancy and only slight variation in some sounds.
My pet peeve is access. I HATE having to use more than 1 switch to get to any sounds. Maybe a push pull or 1 small toggle, but that's it.
Try switching from: neck parallel to b/m with the bridge in series, both pickups in parallel on the fly. Thats like 3 or 4 moves.
As someone once said: "ain't nobody got time for dat' "
The above strat went from Swiss army knife to an sss w/midboost and a freeway switch to get me b/n and a better layout. 6 sounds that i use all the time.
I like super switches for this reason. I can choose whatever 5 sounds I want, in any order, using any or none of the tones/volumes.
Hats off to OP for having the guts to make it happen
Id love to hear feedback on the operation and how many of those tones you actually use.
I stopped there as there was redundancy and only slight variation in some sounds.
My pet peeve is access. I HATE having to use more than 1 switch to get to any sounds. Maybe a push pull or 1 small toggle, but that's it.
Try switching from: neck parallel to b/m with the bridge in series, both pickups in parallel on the fly. Thats like 3 or 4 moves.
As someone once said: "ain't nobody got time for dat' "
The above strat went from Swiss army knife to an sss w/midboost and a freeway switch to get me b/n and a better layout. 6 sounds that i use all the time.
I like super switches for this reason. I can choose whatever 5 sounds I want, in any order, using any or none of the tones/volumes.
Hats off to OP for having the guts to make it happen
Id love to hear feedback on the operation and how many of those tones you actually use.
To be fair, I only perform in a very limited and low-key capacity, this wasn't anything I was trying to do for any practical functionality. For me personally, it's just kind of fascinating to experiment with how much one can do with these instruments, sort of the climb-the-mountain-because-it's-there idea. Like everyone else, I find a few voices that resonate with me, and the rest are just because I can. The other side of that coin is, how will I be able to learn what sounds I like, without actually being able to create and listen to them? Hearing someone else's guitar, playing through their rig on YouTube really doesn't tell me much about what MY guitar will sound like through MY rig. The 120 voices was just a happy accident that came from utilizing some basic switching that I've been screwing around with... Fun times!
I have the Freeway 6-way toggle in one of my experiments (LP style), mostly to test it out but it's tremendously under-utilized in that guitar. If I remember correctly, I only have wired up as series/parallel switch between 2 Triple Shots...I should repurpose it in something else to see what else I can do with it...
