Switching options for 2 hums, strat switch & 2 pot holes

[eviltobz]

One of my guitars currently has a sustainer's guts hanging out of the back of it. The sustainer sort of works ok-ish, but my soldering is poor and it took lots of soldering. Plus it needs a battery box routed into the guitar body, and a load of the wires should really be trimmed to size and resoldered. The gist here is that it is messy and needs a fair bit of work to sort out, and I'm not sure if I can be arsed - it's been like this for a loooong time now.

So, that leads me into the question. Does anyone have interesting ideas for switching setups that would fit into my current set of control holes (the 2 humbuckers, a strat type switch and 2 pots mentioned in the thread title) The obvious solution would be a standard 1 vol, 1 tone, and something like this for autosplitting, or a 3 way and push pull pots for coil splitting. However, I'm not a fan of tone pots, so I'd rather not hook one of those in. Could the pot hole be used for a toggle switch or something? Any cool control configurations to suggest within such constraints?

(Due to the way that the fretboard extention hangs over the body, putting triple shots on isn't really feasible either.)

 

[idsnowdog]

Re: Switching options for 2 hums, strat switch & 2 pot holes

I would try to salvage the sustainer. You don't necessarily need an onboard battery box to make the sustainer work. All you would need to do is wire a stereo jack and use a stereo cable to provide power from a external phantom power box. You basically have three wires and a stereo cable has three terminals (tip, ring 1 and ring 2). These terminals can be used for power, input and ground.

If you don't want a tone pot you could wire the second position to be a seperate volume for the neck. With a 5-way super switch you can have plenty of switching options like PRS style switching. These same options could also be implemented in a PRS style rotary switch instead of a pot.

 

[eviltobz]

Re: Switching options for 2 hums, strat switch & 2 pot holes

An external battery box is a very interesting plan, not as interesting as your avatar(s), but still very interesting I'd still need to tidy up the wiring, but the job would be a chunk simpler.

With the sustainer in, the second pot control isn't an issue as it deals with some of the sustainiac features.