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Post by mr_sooty on Mar 25, 2008 20:10:57 GMT -5
I've asked this question before, but the other way around. The I wondered how you put a normal pickup (with no green wire) into a guitar set up for SCN's. Now I'm wondering the other way around. If I want to put an SCN in the bridge of a standard SSS strat, where does the extra (green) wire go?
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Post by ChrisK on Mar 25, 2008 20:31:33 GMT -5
In the hybrid. ;D Think (what's the green wire for in the SCN guitar?)  |
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Post by mr_sooty on Mar 25, 2008 20:39:02 GMT -5
Ground, right? So does it just go to any ground point? Like could you attatch it to the ring terminal where all the black wires go in a star ground? Would you just send it to the same place as the black wires?
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Post by sumgai on Mar 25, 2008 23:56:27 GMT -5
sooty,
Right in one try!
The green wires come from internal shields, and need to be grounded to get the best "quiet" operation. They are separate from the black/colored wires (the coil + and - wires) because in most cases, those two end up in some sort of serial connection, chosen by at least one of the 5-way switch's positions. (Or in a Tele, one of the positions of a 4-way switch chooses the only serial possibility.)
HTH
sumgai
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Post by mr_sooty on Mar 26, 2008 0:55:20 GMT -5
Cool, thanks. Thinking of getting one of the new 08 American Standards and popping an SCN in the bridge position so that it's a bit quiter for that loud distorted bridge stuff.
Which brings up another question: if I did that, would the 4th position (bridge and middle) still be hum cancelling because of the reverse wound middle pickup? Or would the SCN not work the same way for that particualr operation?
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Post by ChrisK on Mar 26, 2008 13:24:47 GMT -5
Most Excellent Deduction (but you really knew the answer all along anyway, you just didn't know that you did). No, but it will be "hum muffling" in that the low impedance (as compared to the volume pot alone) of the SCN will help. Filtering is. |
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