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Post by monkey hotel on Jan 30, 2016 16:08:56 GMT -5
Howdy Folks! After experimenting with series as well as half-out-of-phase switching on my Strat*, i would like to combine them into a simple and intuitive 1-switch mod. Maybe you can help me out? I've done a lot of searching and i'm sure DGB has it somewhere, but my brain refuses to understand those schematics. The following diagram should illustrate my desire: SW1 | SW 2-down
| Tone Control
| SW 2-up | SW 2-down variations
| 1 | N | 1 | N x B
| N x B, hoop / N x B - | 2 | N + M
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| N x M, hoop
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| 3 | M | 2 |
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| 4 | M + B
| 2 | M x B, hoop
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| 5 | B | 2 | ? M x B
| N x B, hoop / N x B -
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| x series
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*SSS (middle pu is rwrp), 1 master volume, 2 tone controls (1 push-pot: tone 2, dpdt); Megaswitch M (~Fender Super Switch)Is this even possible? I decline - adding more switches - blender pots - confusing switching options (i.e. 1-n+m, 2-n, 3-m+b and the like). Adding another switch (right now) is not an option. Maybe an S1-switch in the future. Any suggestions to that? Greetings from Germany!
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Post by JohnH on Jan 31, 2016 15:02:03 GMT -5
Hi MH, welcome to GN2!
What you ask may be possible. But a question first:
The term 'half out of phase' or HOOP, is one that we discuss here from time to time but I suspect we are not all clear on exactly what it means (I'm not). Often it is two coils in parallel, one having a capacitor in series with it. Or, maybe it's a series wiring out of phase, one coil being partly bypassed. Or maybe something else. If it is a setting that you have had before, what was it in your case? Or, can you provide or link to a diagram that includes an example of what you have in mind?
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Post by monkey hotel on Feb 1, 2016 12:28:31 GMT -5
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Post by monkey hotel on Feb 8, 2016 15:50:10 GMT -5
...too difficult to answer?
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Post by vinnie1971 on Feb 18, 2016 8:03:14 GMT -5
Hi MH, welcome to GN2! What you ask may be possible. But a question first: The term 'half out of phase' or HOOP, is one that we discuss here from time to time but I suspect we are not all clear on exactly what it means (I'm not). Often it is two coils in parallel, one having a capacitor in series with it. Or, maybe it's a series wiring out of phase, one coil being partly bypassed. Or maybe something else. If it is a setting that you have had before, what was it in your case? Or, can you provide or link to a diagram that includes an example of what you have in mind? Hi Fully out of phase sounds horrible on s strat, I did it, and you get a thin weak shrill sound. Not usable. Half out of phase is great, quite honky and reverses some of the signal cancelled when in position 2 and 2. I have a 3 way toggle switch: Middle is all in phase. Up reverses the phase of the middle pup with a 0.01 cap in series with the signal. With another pup selected it's honky Down reverses the phase of the bridge pickup using a .1 cap giving what I call 3/4 out of phase with another pickup selected it's nasal but not thin and weak. Why put it on the bridge? Because I also have a no load blend pot on bridge and neck so I can really vary the amount of out of phase sound, and it sounds amazing with the neck. A really wide scooped tone. When no other pup is selected the putting reversing the phase of the pup has no effect other than to cut a barely perceptible amount of bass. Only noticeable under high gain. I love the old blues sounds using out of phase such as Freddie King and Peter green.
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Post by vinnie1971 on Feb 18, 2016 8:05:20 GMT -5
Here's my series parallel and out of phase options demonstrated, excuse the playing I am demonstrating the modifications not my playing!
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