Wiring Gurus Needed!

[cmac]

Hello all! So I have my custom wire job all mocked up for my latest project, and I have a quick question

I'd like to opt out of having any toggle switch at all on my h/h/h guitar... is there anyway to wire this so that the volumes do not affect each other? There would be a volume pot for each humbucker and a master tone.

The final result will look something like this picture I drew, fingers crossed

 

[Artie]

Re: Wiring Gurus Needed!

I just did a customers Epiphone Zephyr that has that exact configuration. (3 P-90's.) You just wire the pickup hot wire to the center terminal of each volume pot. Then connect the non-ground lugs all together and then onto the output jack.

 

[cmac]

Re: Wiring Gurus Needed!

I just did a customers Epiphone Zephyr that has that exact configuration. (3 P-90's.) You just wire the pickup hot wire to the center terminal of each volume pot. Then connect the non-ground lugs all together and then onto the output jack.

Awesome! And this doesn't result in any loss of treble when one volume is all the way down, like decoupling a Les Paul's volume controls?

 

[Artie]

Re: Wiring Gurus Needed!

There's definitely an interaction. I'm not sure I'd call it a loss of treble. Sort of a cocked wah effect.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Wiring Gurus Needed!

Since that is wired 50's tone with independent volumes, you shouldn't have much loss of treble and very little if any interaction of the volumes.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Wiring Gurus Needed!

I just did a customers Epiphone Zephyr that has that exact configuration. (3 P-90's.) You just wire the pickup hot wire to the center terminal of each volume pot. Then connect the non-ground lugs all together and then onto the output jack.

To the tone pot and the output jack.

 

[Artie]

Re: Wiring Gurus Needed!

To the tone pot and the output jack.

Yuppers. I missed that part.

 

[uOpt]

Re: Wiring Gurus Needed!

You can only prevent the volume pot interaction by changing impedance. Realistically that means one preamp per pickup, before the volume pot for that pickup.

It sound crazy, but it is what EMG does. The trick is to find small enough gadgets. I suppose you could prepare a single PCB with 3 opamps.