Wiring Help Needed...Please

[DR Ron]

I have squire strat that I have upgraded pretty much everything on. Now I have been experimenting with tone through pickup selection and wiring.

These are the mods I like best...but I can't seem to get them all wired up together...your help would be greatly appreciated.

1. Love the TBX tone control in place of the stock tone control. This definitely works in my combo setup.
2. For some reason I tried the treble bleed circuit and it made very noticeable tonal changes to the guitar...I really like it...but I would like to be able to bypass it and make it non-volume responsive (full-on, or full off)...unfortunately I can't seem to get this to work.
3. The coil split...I have it wired to an on-on-on toggle but as wired I can't tell if it is working or not.
4. Add a Bridge/neck combo, and an all 3 pups selection somehow. (Haven't even tried)

I should add that with this wiring diagram below...the Volume knob no longer works...the volume always remains at 10 no matter the knob setting.

I created the diagram below based on what is currently wired in my guitar.

Could I ask some gent with more knowledge than myself check my diagram and offer some insight. I would be greatly appreciative of your time.

-Ron

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Wiring Help Needed...Please

Your diagram illustrates the red/white series links of both humbuckers connected to the same pole of a DP3T on/on/on switch.

Error 1) The switch should be a DPDT on/on or on/off type.
Error 2) The red/white link from each pickup should have a switch pole to itself.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Wiring Help Needed...Please

Error 3) It's a PNG image, and on the default blue background, the black text it unreadable.


Both red+white combos could go to the same point on the switch if you wanted them both split at the same time, but to avoid linking the pickups through those wires, it's probably best to put them on separate sides of the switch as suggested.


For the Treble Bleed to have On/Off only, remove the blue wire in the diagram that runs to the pot terminal, leaving the yellow wire as-is.

For an all-pickups-on function, jump them to one quadrant of the other half of the SuperSwitch, connect all positions to each other, and route the outputs of both sides of the SS to a mini-toggle/push-pull, then to the jack from the mini-toggle or push-pull. This will allow your all-on option from any blade switch position.

 

[DR Ron]

Re: Wiring Help Needed...Please

Thanks so much!

The other problem I'm having is that when I move the pickup selector switch, in two positions I'm getting all 3 pickups.

Would it make a difference to put a coil select on the hum buckers when they are split?

The TBX appears to be doing nothing.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Wiring Help Needed...Please

in two positions, I'm getting all 3 pickups.

If your guitar is wired exactly like the diagram in post #1, in selector switch positions 2 and 4, in addition to middle and neck or bridge pickup, you will also be getting one coil of the third pickup.

For example, in position 2, you will have middle + stud coil of bridge pickup in series with the screw coils of both the bridge and neck pickups.

Furthermore, if the two red/white series links are still sharing one DPDT switch terminal, selector switch position 1 will yield bridge PU + one coil of neck PU. Position 5 will yield neck PU + one coil of bridge PU. Even position 3 will have some unintended cross-connections.