Wiring Question

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shaggydawg

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Dear Forum,

I was inside my axe the other day and was looking at the wiring that was done by someone else. I have a couple of Seymour Duncan humbuckers in this thing, along with a DPDT switch. The switch is used to split the pickups by grounding the red/white pairs. Seems pretty normal, but the odd thing is this:

There is a jumper on the OTHER side of the switch that shorts the red/white pairs of the two pickups together when in the non-split position. What's going on with this? I would expect to see that side of the switch open so the humbuckers work as normal.

Anyone know what's going on with this wiring? It seems to me it would cause a weird interaction between the neck and bridge pickups. Funny thing is, it doesn't sound all that bad.

Thanks for any input.
 
Re: Wiring Question

Ok:

red/white from one pickup to 3, red/white from other pup to 4
ground to 5 and 6
1 and 2 tied together <--- the puzzling connection

Hope that helps.
 
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Re: Wiring Question

Actually, I did that once myself. Its an interesting sound. Whats happening is, when you're in the non-split mode, the screw coils are on all the time. Your 3-way just selects between the "additional" neck stud or bridge stud, (or both). Its like, when in the neck position, you "borrow" a little bridge, and vice-versa.

Its a nice, balanced, tone.
 
Re: Wiring Question

Thanks for the replies. Yes, I thought there would be some kind of bridge/neck blending going on there. I ended up removing the jumper and it changed the tone of the guitar quite a bit. The bridge has more bite and the neck is smoother, just what you might expect.

Problem is, it's like playing a different guitar now! Have to get dialed-in all over again and I'm still not sure which way I like better.
 
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