I have a customer of mine who wants to wire a neck pickup to a 3 way or 5 way switch then out to the pots and jack like usual. He also wants to wire the same neck pickup to a separate output jack with no additional pots, switches, or circuitry. His guitar is currently wired with two humbuckers with pots and a switch and it's own input jack as well as a piezo bridge to a set of pots and the second jack. Any ideas?
Wiring a neck pickup to two different jacks
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ParameterMan
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Re: Wiring a neck pickup to two different jacks
A switching jack to disconnect it from the rest of the guitar's circuitry.
A switching jack to disconnect it from the rest of the guitar's circuitry.
Re: Wiring a neck pickup to two different jacks
I'm intrigued. Can you elaborate?
I'm intrigued. Can you elaborate?
ParameterMan
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Re: Wiring a neck pickup to two different jacks
Well, with passive electronics(as you probably know) there are no buffers to isolate anything, so the only way to remove the effects of the volume/tone controls and pickup switching is to physically disconnect the pickup from them. One could use a little toggle switch, but NC mono switching jacks are readily available.
The sleeve of the jack would be attached to ground, and the hot from the neck pickup would go directly to the tip. The switch lug of the jack would be connected to the neck pickup's normal place. Then, with no plug in the jack, the neck pickup will be routed to it's normal place in the circuit. With a plug inserted, it will be routed directly to that cable and it's normal function will be disrupted.
Well, with passive electronics(as you probably know) there are no buffers to isolate anything, so the only way to remove the effects of the volume/tone controls and pickup switching is to physically disconnect the pickup from them. One could use a little toggle switch, but NC mono switching jacks are readily available.
The sleeve of the jack would be attached to ground, and the hot from the neck pickup would go directly to the tip. The switch lug of the jack would be connected to the neck pickup's normal place. Then, with no plug in the jack, the neck pickup will be routed to it's normal place in the circuit. With a plug inserted, it will be routed directly to that cable and it's normal function will be disrupted.
Re: Wiring a neck pickup to two different jacks
Do they make these in a flush mount jack? The customer has an Ibanez electric and the jack you send the link for (Thanks, by the way!) won't work for my guy.
Do they make these in a flush mount jack? The customer has an Ibanez electric and the jack you send the link for (Thanks, by the way!) won't work for my guy.
ParameterMan
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Re: Wiring a neck pickup to two different jacks
I'm not sure... I thought I'd seen one once but a quick search turned up nothing. You may want to hunt around a bit.
I'm not sure... I thought I'd seen one once but a quick search turned up nothing. You may want to hunt around a bit.
DrNewcenstein
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Re: Wiring a neck pickup to two different jacks
I'm thinking you're going to hit a wall right away:
The guitar has both magnetic (regular) pickups to one jack and a piezo system to the 2nd jack, and he wants the neck pickup going to its own output jack?
You could replace the primary jack (magnetics) with a stereo jack and wire the neck pickup to a push-pull that switches the neck pickup to the ring of that jack, bypassing all the pots and the main switch selection.
I'm thinking you're going to hit a wall right away:
The guitar has both magnetic (regular) pickups to one jack and a piezo system to the 2nd jack, and he wants the neck pickup going to its own output jack?
You could replace the primary jack (magnetics) with a stereo jack and wire the neck pickup to a push-pull that switches the neck pickup to the ring of that jack, bypassing all the pots and the main switch selection.
