Strat tone wiring for middle/neck and bridge alone

[SunIsLoco]

My strat has the jumper that allows the middle tone control to also control the bridge. However, to my ears, the middle and neck are much closer in EQ than middle and bridge - taming the bridge makes the middle a bit too dark.

Is there a wiring option to have one tone control the middle and neck, and the other control the bridge alone?

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

Strat tone wiring for middle/neck and bridge alone

Just wire up the middle control like a standard tone control and connected it to the switch.

I use a second capacitor instead of the way it’s set up.

I do the neck control for neck and middle and the middle control for the bridge.

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[SunIsLoco]

Re: Strat tone wiring for middle/neck and bridge alone

Just wire up the middle control like a standard tone control and connected it to the switch.

I'm not really sure what you mean by this

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Strat tone wiring for middle/neck and bridge alone

Try the idea described above, where the middle pickup has no tone control. Along with David, I'm a big fan, as are a great number of killer Strat players.

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

Re: Strat tone wiring for middle/neck and bridge alone

I'm not really sure what you mean by this

You can find a wiring diagram for a tone pot, right?

Look at the way the Strat is wired. Two tone pots share a cap. This is because the Strat came with a 3-way switch. You couldn’t get two pickups at the same time. So they save on the cost of a cap.

So rewire the neck tone control to only effect the neck. Then rewire the middle tone control with a new cap to the bridge pickup.

If you can’t do those things bring it to someone who can, or learn how. [emoji3]


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[ItsaBass]

Re: Strat tone wiring for middle/neck and bridge alone

Very easy. You can probably even figure it out yourself just by poking around, *if* you understand that a Strat switch is wired so that the lugs directly opposite each other on either side of the switch are electronically connected. Therefore whatever is soldered to one lug is electronically connected to the lug directly opposite it, on the other half of the switch.

Look at the pickup output wires, and you see that each one connects to a lug on the switch...and each of those has a corresponding lug on the opposite side. Look at the wires that are connected to these opposite lugs, and you should see where they lead: to the tone pots. You will also see that two of those opposite lugs are connected by a little wire; that is the wire that causes the corresponding tone control to affect two pickups instead of just one. So that little wire is what you need to move (or just one end of it, actually).

 

[jeremy]

Re: Strat tone wiring for middle/neck and bridge alone

basically what you have now is a little jumper going from the middle and bridge contacts on the switch, move that jumper to the neck and middle instead. no tone on the middle is fine if you want a brighter tone in that position

 

[Ayrton]

Re: Strat tone wiring for middle/neck and bridge alone

Just remove the jumper wire connecting the two pickups