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susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:07 am

First step, the original switch is a custom job.
http://guitarnuts2.proboards.com/index. ... hread=4007
That's not good.

We'll see ...
Oh well,
susiwong

susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:38 am

OK, I give up, sorry.

If IBZ hadn't "cheated" with a custom switch it would have been easy, like I described above.

At least I have found a large, well organized list of HH wirings with 4 layer SuperSwitch here, who knows, one might suit you even better than stock ?
http://www.guitarelectronics.com/c=bHr8 ... _diagrams/
Also check the rest of the site, good stuff !

Cheers,
susiwong

susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:12 am

Here's my initial idea, applied to hibidy's dream wiring.
Slightly corrected and streamlined, identical principle.
Original:

Mod :

As you see, tone control only works in positions 2,3,4, the split ones.

Btw, doesn't matter much what lug of the volume pot you connect the new red wire to, in or middle, both will work.
Sorry it won't work for you, Eric.

Cheers,
susiwong

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:00 pm

Thinking about buying a Standard Strat and replacing all the hardware and electronics over time. All I really want is a decent neck/body combination, I'll take care of the rest!

Sold all my keyboard gear for rent money while out of work (sigh) but have a steady job now, and I'm going back to guitar! Run!

Maybe I should start with a cheap Squier to re-learn on before I trash a $600 guitar in my re-education process...

Gotta save up for a Zoom R24 too (sold my music laptop as well) - back to hardware!

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:30 pm

buy a squier first like you said but why bother working backwards? If all you need is a body and neck and you'll do the rest than warmoth is you answer. See the diy forum here for links to warmoth and other guitar part dealers

Ian B · Post by **Ian B** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:38 pm

Ian B wrote:I finally got round to replacing the faulty jack socket on my AcePro AE625 today, after the best part of 2 months unplayed it's like having a brand new guitar again The downside is, tho' it was like this before so it's nothing I've done, the bridge bucker is pretty noisy when used with distortion. It's not s/c > distortion noisy, but compared to how quiet the neck pup is it surely means something is wrong, but I can't for the life of me see what (the pups are both Swineshead Condors and pretty hot)

Any suggestions as to what may be going on here?

Problem solved, well -ish anyway. It's the amp, my Cube 15X, the same guitar/leads used with my VOX AD15VT is all but silent no matter how much gain I use. Strange that it only happens with the one amp tho'

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:44 pm

Hink wrote:buy a squier first like you said but why bother working backwards? If all you need is a body and neck and you'll do the rest than warmoth is you answer. See the diy forum here for links to warmoth and other guitar part dealers

Some nice stuff there at Warmoth - and pre-finished, which is something I can't do! Thanks for the info!!!

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 6:53 pm

susiwong wrote:As you see, tone control only works in positions 2,3,4, the split ones.

Very cool! I'd like to do this one with your mod:

hibidy, I highly recommend putting in susiwong's mod, you'll get a better balance between the pickup positions this way. One problem I've had with splitting pickups is they always sound harsh, either because of the 500K volume pot or just because they're weaker than normal single coils, so getting the tone pot on the split positions takes care of that while leaving the humbucking positions as they ought to sound.

btw, one of my favorite pickups for splitting is the Air Zone.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 7:05 pm

Uncle E wrote:
susiwong wrote:As you see, tone control only works in positions 2,3,4, the split ones.
Very cool! I'd like to do this one with your mod:

hibidy, I highly recommend putting in susiwong's mod, you'll get a better balance between the pickup positions this way. One problem I've had with splitting pickups is they always sound harsh, either because of the 500K volume pot or just because they're weaker than normal single coils, so getting the tone pot on the split positions takes care of that while leaving the humbucking positions as they ought to sound.

btw, one of my favorite pickups for splitting is the Air Zone.

I imagine you could use push/pull pots and add split as well to each humbucker giving it some strat single coil tone (note I said some)

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 7:06 pm

susiwong wrote:
hibidy wrote:Hmmmmmmmmmm.
You'll need a big switch for that ...
But then, bridge HB and 10 small middle PUs, why not ?
Serious or paralyzed wiring ?
Here's a quick diagram off the top of my head.

Not sure about #13 and #37 yet ...
Ymmv,
susiwong

haha!

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 12:44 am

Hink wrote:I imagine you could use push/pull pots and add split as well to each humbucker giving it some strat single coil tone (note I said some)

The noise doesn't work for me. Check out what I just got:

http://www.guitarelectronics.com/produc ... uitar.html

nix808 · Post by **nix808** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:07 am

Hink wrote: warmoth is you answer.

Warmoth or eBay FTW

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:17 am

Uncle E wrote:
Hink wrote:I imagine you could use push/pull pots and add split as well to each humbucker giving it some strat single coil tone (note I said some)
The noise doesn't work for me. Check out what I just got:

http://www.guitarelectronics.com/produc ... uitar.html

I'm the same way but both sets of pups that have been in my Daion had/has split (not ir's an on/on/on so I get series/parallel too...noise isn't an issue here but before I took this apartment I walked around with an am radio. The fact that you can switch it on off and add it so cheap and easy why not have it

The active tone looks pretty cool, I'll have to check it better later. In my Daion I also have the artec BCU which is similar bothe are a good price so I book mearked that...dinners calling bye

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:21 am

Uncle E wrote:
Hink wrote:I imagine you could use push/pull pots and add split as well to each humbucker giving it some strat single coil tone (note I said some)
The noise doesn't work for me. Check out what I just got:

http://www.guitarelectronics.com/produc ... uitar.html

Oh! How interesting!

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:33 am

hibidy wrote:
Uncle E wrote:
Hink wrote:I imagine you could use push/pull pots and add split as well to each humbucker giving it some strat single coil tone (note I said some)
The noise doesn't work for me. Check out what I just got:

http://www.guitarelectronics.com/produc ... uitar.html
Oh! How interesting!

I didn't realise it was passsive until just now, let me know how it sounds Eric

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Your next guitar?