Wiring Gone Wrong.

[Steelrz13]

I finally got the final pieces for my guitar build and after wiring it up i have some pretty big problems. my volume controls do nothing, In just about every position of the selector switch one of the pickups that should not be on is on, the neck and middle pickups are much louder than the bridge. Lastly there is a grounding issue and I do not know why. The guitar buzzes very loudly except when I touch one of the grounding points.

Its pretty obvious i messed up the wiring somewhere and will probably have to redo for the third time but I wanted to get some feedback before that as to what the problems could be. The only thing i can come up with is maybe I heated up one of the pots or switches too much while soldering and broke them? Is that even possible? I will attach a copy of the diagram I drew up and I hope someone more experienced can check it to make sure it will even function correctly in the first place.

My goal for the wiring is to have an HSH setup with series/split/parallel for each humbucker along with a phase switch. One volume is to control the neck and middle pickups and the second is to control only the bridge. I also added a DPDT switch to activate the neck pickup in any position of the selector switch to give me two more pickup combinations than the usual 5.

If anybody could help that would be greatly appreciated because I'm getting very frustrated and have no idea where to go.

 

[hermetico]

Re: Wiring Gone Wrong.

I finally got the final pieces for my guitar build and after wiring it up i have some pretty big problems. my volume controls do nothing, In just about every position of the selector switch one of the pickups that should not be on is on, the neck and middle pickups are much louder than the bridge. Lastly there is a grounding issue and I do not know why. The guitar buzzes very loudly except when I touch one of the grounding points.

Its pretty obvious i messed up the wiring somewhere and will probably have to redo for the third time but I wanted to get some feedback before that as to what the problems could be. The only thing i can come up with is maybe I heated up one of the pots or switches too much while soldering and broke them? Is that even possible? I will attach a copy of the diagram I drew up and I hope someone more experienced can check it to make sure it will even function correctly in the first place.

My goal for the wiring is to have an HSH setup with series/split/parallel for each humbucker along with a phase switch. One volume is to control the neck and middle pickups and the second is to control only the bridge. I also added a DPDT switch to activate the neck pickup in any position of the selector switch to give me two more pickup combinations than the usual 5.

If anybody could help that would be greatly appreciated because I'm getting very frustrated and have no idea where to go.

This is actually how I would do that:



Your design have some flaws. One of the most important is that you cannot ground your neck pickup (on humbucker/split/parallel switch) if you are going to use a phase inverter later.
Notes:
I've ommited the treble bleed mod, because isn't relevant.
This is for DEPENDENT volumes. If you wanted independent volumes, some things should be changed.

 

[Steelrz13]

Re: Wiring Gone Wrong.

Thank you for the diagram that is a big help. I just have a couple concerns. The way I actually have it wired is with the phase switch connected to the bridge instead of the neck, (it turned out to be easier since the location of the two switches were closer) so I am a little unsure of what changes to make.

Would I wire the neck just like the bridge is wired in your diagram except make the output (purple wire) on the series/split/parallel switch go to the middle terminal of the neck on switch? And then for the bridge wire it just like you did the neck except have the output (blue wire) go to where the purple wire did? So would i be correct to say the only changes necessary would be changing where the outputs lead to?

You mentioned this is for dependent volume controls. Will this allow me to "blend" the neck and bridge pickups together similarly to what is possible on a les paul style guitar?

 

[hermetico]

Re: Wiring Gone Wrong.

To addapt the diagram:
On neck side...
The black wire from neck's splitter that goes to the phaser should go to the neck-on switch, left center lug (where the white wire actually is).
Remove that white wire that links neck splitter with neck-on.
You should sold bare wire together with green and ground both (as currently show for bridge on this diagram).

In your bridge side...
You should directly solder that bare wire and then, to throw a jumper from the green lug to the phaser switch (left center lug, where the neck's green actually is).
You should remove that pink wire, by now and, throw a wire from bridge black (lower right lug of bridge splitter) to the right center lug of the phaser switch.
Finally, throw a jumper from the left upper lug of your phaser to the 5-way, where the pink is actually landing.


Well, dependent volume controls will allow you to blend both pickups, in the same way most LPs do it (most have dependent volumes!).
Any one will reduce the total output when rolled off, because they shortcut the jack signal with the ground.