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Post by pete12345 on Apr 14, 2013 11:22:51 GMT -5
Hi all. A while back I came up with my stealth Telecaster scheme, which asmith jumped on and developed a design with the same switch logic, but with the addition of half out-of-phase. The only issue with that design was that the capacitor was still in the circuit when the bridge pickup was selected and the phase switch set to 'out'. I sought to come up with an optimised design that eliminates that. The criteria: 1. Must appear to be unmodified. In terms of switching, this translates to a 3-5 way blade switch and two DPDT push-pull switches. 2. Must operate as a standard telecaster when the push-pull switches are down. 3. Must allow selection of 'series', 'series out of phase' and 'parallel half out of phase' in addition to the standard options. 4. The 'neck only' and 'bridge only' settings must not be affected by the state of the push-pull switches; they must only have an effect in the 'both' position. Here is what I believe to be a workable result: (I checked this when it was a hand-drawn scribble, but there's a chance I made an error in drawing it up here.) The top pole of S1 should be fairly familiar if you've seen the first schematic, but the bottom pole is where things are different. In positions 1 and 2p, it's connecting the bridge pickup to the output. In positions 2s and 3, it's bypassing the HooP capacitor on the neck pickup, giving either SooP or the neck pickup on its own. If you prefer, it's a fairly simple matter to replace the series/parallel switch and 3-way pickup selector with a 4-way switch. Personally though, I like the way this setup gives each switch one function only. The tone control is as you want it. Two easy options are either a master tone control or wired directly to the neck pickup. While not entirely true to the criteria (you lose tone control in the 'bridge only' position) this does allow for a partial bypass of the neck pickup in the series settings, and I rarely use the tone control on the bridge pickup anyway. It might be possible to arrange a JohnH-style 'bypass one pickup with a capacitor at the 10 position' too, but I haven't figured that one out yet.
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Post by bluemurder on Apr 15, 2013 7:36:33 GMT -5
Looks very interesting. I may try this on my Tele these days. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers Stephan
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Post by newey on Apr 15, 2013 9:21:04 GMT -5
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