ChristianNoir
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Hello and please pardon my ignorance in advance!
I am looking for some diagrams and advice, if anyone has any leads. I have a Telecaster I got recently and only use the neck pickup and want to make the bridge more useful to me in a non-Telecaster, non-twang way. Call me crazy, but this Tele shreds.
Anyhoo, the possible configurations will be like these:
A)
Neck: Schecter Monster Tone - Tapable single coil which likes 250k pots (I think)
Bridge: Splitable custom humbucker (similar to Tone Zone) which likes 500k pots
B)
Same as A, but SD QP in neck ( I think it works with 500k pots too) (although I'd probably go with setup A because I'm pretty sure that's the pickup I need, since the artist I'm trying to emulate uses that pickup)
C)
SD QP (500k pots (or 250k or 270k, idk what's best)) or BKP Piledriver (270k pots) sets;
I would like it in 4 way to combine the bridge and the neck kind of like a humbucker. If I go with the Pile Driver, there won't be any pickup mods because I'd be getting the uncovered set which is 4-way ready... as far as the QP, I don't know if it needs a mod or not, if anyone can please clarify.
My main priority is #1. It's just that I believe one pickup likes 250k and the other 500k. I saw a post that says to wire an extra component in to make the neck see 250k out of 500k pots, but the diagram was missing from the link.
Main Questions:
1) Does anyone have a diagrams that show how to do all three setups, especially A?
2) How about switching configurations?
I usually use the neck or bridge on full, would probably use the the 4 way for dual single coils, but would like to know what other wiring suggestions you guys can come up with since one neck single coil is tappable and the humbucker has 4 leads.
3)Also, I'm worried that the bridge's output might overpower the neck. I wouldn't be opposed to adding an on-board boost with a mini toggle or push/pull pot of some kind.. Just so I can switch to the neck for that occasional solo and not have a massive volume drop (if there is one). Mainly, I'll be using the pickups separately for 2 totally different kinds of music....
This comes later though.. because I don't know yet if it's going to be a problem or not. The pickup in setup A is tappable, so perhaps untapped it may have enough output? I'm assuming a tappable single coil pickup is stacked when not tapped, but not sure.. If anyone can please clarify.
Thanks in advance for answering to my ignorance. I've changed pickups before, but have little experience with changing from single coils to humbuckers, mixing and matching, or so changing out electronics to anything other than full electronics changes to EMG's.
I am looking for some diagrams and advice, if anyone has any leads. I have a Telecaster I got recently and only use the neck pickup and want to make the bridge more useful to me in a non-Telecaster, non-twang way. Call me crazy, but this Tele shreds.
Anyhoo, the possible configurations will be like these:
A)
Neck: Schecter Monster Tone - Tapable single coil which likes 250k pots (I think)
Bridge: Splitable custom humbucker (similar to Tone Zone) which likes 500k pots
B)
Same as A, but SD QP in neck ( I think it works with 500k pots too) (although I'd probably go with setup A because I'm pretty sure that's the pickup I need, since the artist I'm trying to emulate uses that pickup)
C)
SD QP (500k pots (or 250k or 270k, idk what's best)) or BKP Piledriver (270k pots) sets;
I would like it in 4 way to combine the bridge and the neck kind of like a humbucker. If I go with the Pile Driver, there won't be any pickup mods because I'd be getting the uncovered set which is 4-way ready... as far as the QP, I don't know if it needs a mod or not, if anyone can please clarify.
My main priority is #1. It's just that I believe one pickup likes 250k and the other 500k. I saw a post that says to wire an extra component in to make the neck see 250k out of 500k pots, but the diagram was missing from the link.
Main Questions:
1) Does anyone have a diagrams that show how to do all three setups, especially A?
2) How about switching configurations?
I usually use the neck or bridge on full, would probably use the the 4 way for dual single coils, but would like to know what other wiring suggestions you guys can come up with since one neck single coil is tappable and the humbucker has 4 leads.
3)Also, I'm worried that the bridge's output might overpower the neck. I wouldn't be opposed to adding an on-board boost with a mini toggle or push/pull pot of some kind.. Just so I can switch to the neck for that occasional solo and not have a massive volume drop (if there is one). Mainly, I'll be using the pickups separately for 2 totally different kinds of music....
This comes later though.. because I don't know yet if it's going to be a problem or not. The pickup in setup A is tappable, so perhaps untapped it may have enough output? I'm assuming a tappable single coil pickup is stacked when not tapped, but not sure.. If anyone can please clarify.
Thanks in advance for answering to my ignorance. I've changed pickups before, but have little experience with changing from single coils to humbuckers, mixing and matching, or so changing out electronics to anything other than full electronics changes to EMG's.
