busburken
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Post by busburken on May 7, 2009 16:44:48 GMT -5
I'm looking to wire two humbuckers in my home made Rickenbacker 650. There is no previous wiring done. If anyone would help me out wit the wiring diagram, I would be grateful.
Below is the idéa I´d like to stick to. Unless you feel this concept is flat out stupid please do not give me more suggestions for different setups. I'm happy with the 4 push/pull pots (Aesthetics).
My problem is, I´ve never done this before. I'have a setup in my head that I think would work, but I'm not sure it would be the cleanest way to do it!
The setup: Two humbuckers and four Push-Pull Pots
Position Function Resistance State Description
Neck Vol I 250kOhm Push Coils in paralell
Neck Vol I 250kOhm Pull Coils in serie
Neck Tone I 250 kOhm Push 0.022 microF
Neck Tone I 250 kOhm Pull 0.033 microF
Bridge Vol II 500 kOhm Push Coils in paralell
Bridge Vol II 500 kOhm Pull Coils in serie
Bridge Tone II 500 kOhm Push 0.033 microF
Bridge Tone II 500 kOhm Pull 0.047 microF
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Post by newey on May 7, 2009 20:41:00 GMT -5
BB- Hello and Welcome! Once this is a finished project, we'd love some photos of it posted in the gallery. And, for some good guitar porn, peruse the homemade Ric basses Flateric has been doing, which are posted there. I don't feel the concept is stupid at all, flat-out or otherwise. What you are proposing is, in essence, one more variation on the Jimmy Page LP wiring. We've has much discussion on various variations here, in John H's Jimmy Page mod That thread has links to other variants as well. While none of these does exactly what you propose, they all feature 4 push/pulls so the diagrams may be a start for you, at least it's good background reading for what you want to do. I can't help with a diagram, but others will chime in. A few questions, however. First, may we assume that this guitar will also have a 3-way pickup selector switch in addition to the push/pull pots? May we likewise assume that your chosen pickups are 4-conductor type humbuckers? Are they a matched set of HBs, or two different flavors? The only points I would make are that you might be better off with 500K pots all around rather than 250K for the neck. I did note your differing capacitor values for neck vs. bridge, but I still think that, unless you're into Goth, the neck will be too dark with a 250K pot. I might also make the 2 capacitors selected of a wider range. The difference between .022 and .033µf will be fairly subtle. I'd go .022 and .047 on both bridge and neck, that ought to give you a nice tonal variation. Of course, the type of pickup will affect these choices, as will your personal tonal tastes. You'll notice, I specifically didn't mention that you might want to consider series/parallel between the 2 pickups as well as between the two coils in each pup. MUHAHA!  |
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Post by JohnH on May 8, 2009 16:08:20 GMT -5
Hi busburken, and welcome. What you suggest is reasonably easy. I think it is a good set up if you are happy with those options, though I agree with newey on values. The tone cap variants will be good, assuming that you regularly play with tone turned down. Your scheme can be broken down into modules, being a standard Les Paul wiring, with switches added for the S/P, and tone controls. Have you seen this thread, on modules? - see the post on series/parallel wiring guitarnuts2.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=modules&action=display&thread=3769But Seymour Duncan has already done most of it - see this one, which has the two S/P switches, on the tone controls, but you could transpose the switch wiring to have them attached to the volume pots if you wish: www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=2h2v2t3w2spJohn |
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