Wiring help please?

rrockwell777

rrockwell777

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Hi, all! Just registered today! Glad to see helpful forums like this one.

So today I'm going to buy a beautiful white schecter hellraiser with some ugly emgs in it, which I will soon rip out and replace with an sh-6 in the bridge and an sh-2n in the neck. I found out that these pups are coil-tappable, so I was planning on doing that, too.

I was planning on using 2 volumes, both push-pull for the coil tap, and one tone, with a basic, 3 way blade switch. I can't seem to find a wiring diagram on here that shows that configuration. The closest I got was this one:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=2h_2v_1t_3w_ssp

Is that what I should do? Or is there another way I should wire these, like a combination of two other diagrams?

-Rocky James
 
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You mean like the tone in the diagram I posted? Thanks bro, quick response, too.

If anyone else has any opinions, I'd be interested in those, as well.
 
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Oh, and welcome to the forum.

This is a great place for expert advice and opinions. Forum bros have lots of knowledge, expertise, and experience.
 
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Alright, one more question: should I put the bridge grounding on the bridge volume pot or the tone pot? Does it matter?
 
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rrockwell777 said:
Alright, one more question: should I put the bridge grounding on the bridge volume pot or the tone pot? Does it matter?
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Doesn't matter, although tradition is to the tone pot. BTW, congrats on yanking out the EMG's. You're much better off with passives.
 
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I use to love EMGs, but then I bought this Peavy 6505+ head here, and with an amp this hot, it doesn't matter if you have hot pups if they have no tone! The SH-6 is a hot pup with a wide variety of tones, and I can't wait to put it in!

Thanks guys. Any other advice? I have about a 50/50 record with correctly soldering things haha, I'd like to not have to spend $80 having a shop do it.
 
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General advice: Good lighting, a fan (for solder fumes), and do it when you're alert and not tired or dstracted. Take your time. If you get frustrated, come back later with a clear head. Look at the diagrams until they make sense. Everything (PU's, pots, toggle, and jack) has a hot and a ground wire connected to it. All the ground wires interconnect in a big network. The hot wres don't work that way though. If something doesn't have a ground wire attached, you get noise. If ground and hot wires touch, you get a short. To a novice a wire harness looks like spaghetti, but it's really very basic and logical. Take the mystery out of it.

With a coil cut for push-pull: you have 6 lugs on the PP box. The middle two stay the same, whether the push-pull is up or down, so what you're really changing when you lift it up is going from the bottom 2 lugs to the top 2 lugs (the middle two are always 'on'). Make sense? So you have wires from one coil of a PU that will connect with a ground wire when the push-pull is lifted, shorting it out, and leaving you only one functioning coil...coil cut! Voila. When the push-pull is down, those two PU wires aren't linked to a ground wire, so nothing is going on then. It's normal humbucker mode. No different than if they weren't on the push-pull.
 
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So, I should just go with the Guitar Doc's plan, then? Wire with the two PP vol pots and just send the tone knob thru it?
 
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