What's the most tricked out wiring that keeps to the Strat's layout..? ;-)

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merseymale

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Season's Greetings! :-D

I would be very interested if someone could point me to a wierd Bran May/Queen wiring, please?

I'm currently putting a strat together BUT I don't really need a clone! So I want to know what strat sized set would get close to Burns' TriSonics? I don't really like the strat mid pup on its own (but maybe I would if it was a TriSonic..?) & so am not too reluctant in losing it and I notice that Brian May himself does not love ALL the selections his Red Special Guitar offers so I am searching for a layout that would be easy to use in a not too modifed Strat scratchplate.

I think this would be easy enough as I quite like push/pull pots & rotary switches and when ya consider that a few positions on Brian's guitar are repeated AND single pickup selections don't actually need a phase switch then there must already be a simplified wiring diagram out here but I can't seem to find one!

I can wire up guitars well with a diagram or, with patience(!), a schematic but I'm not too good at inventing them from scratch! I don't mind having no tone controls at all, by the way;-)

Thank You for your time!
 
Re: What's the most tricked out wiring that keeps to the Strat's layout..? ;-)

You could install a super switch, and wire it up for series pickup combinations in positions 2 and 4. Then using push/pulls or push/pushes, add a neck-on switch, a middle pickup phase switch, and a bridge pickup phase switch. While the way you'd get the different tones would be different than the Red Special, all of the tones would be attainable. And the only thing you'd lose from a normal Strat setup would be your normal 2 and 4 parallel positions (which I never use anyhow).

GFS makes Strat-sized Tri-Sonics.

But the most important physical feature that makes the Red Special sound like the Red Special (IMO) is the one feature that practically nobody seems to care about when trying to base a guitar on it: it's a student scale length guitar. That makes a HUGE difference in tone, and a HUGE difference in feel vs. a Strat, no matter what pickups or wiring you have. IMO, one is better off using a Jaguar, Musicmaster, or Duo-Sonic as a base for this sort of project.
 
Re: What's the most tricked out wiring that keeps to the Strat's layout..? ;-)

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This diagram was done by our brother Artie via Heremetico. Rather than having two tones I would go with either a passive bass cut, a Q-filter or a booster.
 
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Re: What's the most tricked out wiring that keeps to the Strat's layout..? ;-)

Thanks SwissMoutain, thanks EVERYONE ;-) I got too much time on my hands until 2nd week of January so time to heat da old' iron! ;-)
 
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