Strat wiring help needed!
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Re: Strat wiring help needed!
To answer your last question first, a pot is a pot. It is only the addition of a capacitor and the order in which connections are made that makes it a tone control.
The pickup selector switch would be easier to wire up as a straightforward neck/both/bridge with a separate series/parallel switch governing the "both" position.
To answer your last question first, a pot is a pot. It is only the addition of a capacitor and the order in which connections are made that makes it a tone control.
The pickup selector switch would be easier to wire up as a straightforward neck/both/bridge with a separate series/parallel switch governing the "both" position.
Re: Strat wiring help needed!
Thanks for the input!
But I want to keep it simple - no extra switches if possible.
About the pots, it was more a question if someone knew if they all are 250 k or if I'd have to order one the same value...
Thanks for the input!
But I want to keep it simple - no extra switches if possible.
About the pots, it was more a question if someone knew if they all are 250 k or if I'd have to order one the same value...
Re: Strat wiring help needed!
How so?
Wiring the 3-way for series is dirt simple. Dual-vol's gets real messy. Can I talk you out of that one?
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How so?
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Re: Strat wiring help needed!
If the volume pots for the two coils are in circuit before the selector switch, each of them has the capability to shut off the overall output when both pickups are combined in series.
Take a hint from the Brian May Red Special circuit. One volume pot, one tone pot.
Another thing that I remember from the BMRS circuit is that the most useful series linked single coil combinations for obtaining humbucker-like tones were Bridge+Middle and Middle+Neck. The former is May's main sound. The latter is the chord break sound from "It's A Kind Of Magic".
The one instance where two volume pots makes sense is if the second one acts as a Blend control for the centre pickup.
If the volume pots for the two coils are in circuit before the selector switch, each of them has the capability to shut off the overall output when both pickups are combined in series.
Take a hint from the Brian May Red Special circuit. One volume pot, one tone pot.
Another thing that I remember from the BMRS circuit is that the most useful series linked single coil combinations for obtaining humbucker-like tones were Bridge+Middle and Middle+Neck. The former is May's main sound. The latter is the chord break sound from "It's A Kind Of Magic".
The one instance where two volume pots makes sense is if the second one acts as a Blend control for the centre pickup.
Re: Strat wiring help needed!
Thanks!
I've read on other forums that consensus seem to be that the most useful series sound is neck + bridge. I'm afraid the B + M will be too much like B + M in parallel (which I absolutely hate) - only boosted.
Maybe I'll go with 1 master vol, 1 master tone and 1 unused...
Thanks!
I've read on other forums that consensus seem to be that the most useful series sound is neck + bridge. I'm afraid the B + M will be too much like B + M in parallel (which I absolutely hate) - only boosted.
Maybe I'll go with 1 master vol, 1 master tone and 1 unused...
Artie
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Re: Strat wiring help needed!
Hey Jonas; First of all, I misunderstood what you were asking in your 1st post. I thought you had a N/B pickup Strat only. I didn't realize you had a middle pup. My diagram wouldn't be good for that. But more importantly, I just wired up my own Strat with my Minimalist wiring scheme, which gives me N/M and M/B in series. I can assure you that M/B in series does not sound like M/B in parallel. It truly mimicks a virtual humbucker. Completely different sound.
(I also just realized that I spelled "minimalist" wrong in my diagram.) :smack:
Hey Jonas; First of all, I misunderstood what you were asking in your 1st post. I thought you had a N/B pickup Strat only. I didn't realize you had a middle pup. My diagram wouldn't be good for that. But more importantly, I just wired up my own Strat with my Minimalist wiring scheme, which gives me N/M and M/B in series. I can assure you that M/B in series does not sound like M/B in parallel. It truly mimicks a virtual humbucker. Completely different sound.
(I also just realized that I spelled "minimalist" wrong in my diagram.) :smack:
uOpt
Something Cool
Re: Strat wiring help needed!
So you can probably use the superswitch to do this but that's above my Saturday morning brain twistability.
What I do for in-series in a Strat alike guitar is that I make an isolated section of the guitar's wiring, I never draw a whole wiring diagram. There's one module for the in-series trick which I wire up independently. What I do is take a push-pull (a miniswitch would work, too) that puts the bridge pickup in-series with the whole rest of the guitar that means it is in-series with the 5-way switch. One disadvantage of this is that if you put the 5-way switch into the bridge position there is no sound. An advantage is that you can have all pickups up, neck+middle in parallel as a block in-series with bridge.
BTW, is there some web tool to make these diagrams with a reasonable effort? So far I use paper and a camera
So you can probably use the superswitch to do this but that's above my Saturday morning brain twistability.
What I do for in-series in a Strat alike guitar is that I make an isolated section of the guitar's wiring, I never draw a whole wiring diagram. There's one module for the in-series trick which I wire up independently. What I do is take a push-pull (a miniswitch would work, too) that puts the bridge pickup in-series with the whole rest of the guitar that means it is in-series with the 5-way switch. One disadvantage of this is that if you put the 5-way switch into the bridge position there is no sound. An advantage is that you can have all pickups up, neck+middle in parallel as a block in-series with bridge.
BTW, is there some web tool to make these diagrams with a reasonable effort? So far I use paper and a camera
