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Post by Carlos Sanz on Sept 15, 2019 11:57:12 GMT -5
Well, it's a long time since I didn't show up here. Honestly, I'm very proud of my "11 Easy Sounds" design that I posted and I can't think of a better circuit : guitarnuts2.proboards.com/thread/8447/parallel-series-stratocaster-easy-soundsBut in another forum someone asked for a Parallel/Series switch keeping the two separate tone controls. The most versatile circuit for that is the American Stratocaster Deluxe series design (any of the versions), but a very special and difficult-to-find selector is needed for it. Dick Wacker published an easy modification, but the positions in "series" mode are repeated and position-3 is silent (if my analysis is correct): www.premierguitar.com/articles/Adding_Series_Switching_To_Your_StratI've made a design easy to use with an S-1 and a super-switch. The work is simple: when the S-1 is pushed, positions 2 are 4 are in series. The rest is the same as with a regular Strat. Any corrections or thoughts?
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Post by JohnH on Sept 15, 2019 17:05:34 GMT -5
Hi Carlos, thanks for calling in again!
Your previous design was a great one. I see Photobucket is blurring its images now though. (discussions around that issue are ongoing!)
How do the two tones operate in your new design?
I haven't studied your new diagram. But one way I reckon two tone pots can always be added to any scheme is to wire them directly across the two leads on two pickups - then they follow along with whatever switching comes after and don't affect anything they shouldn't. And, in a series mode, turning down the tone on one pickup but not the other gets very interesting.
Also, I make the general assumption, based on previous examples, that anything posted by Dirk W is usually wrong unless proven otherwise.
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Post by Carlos Sanz on Sept 19, 2019 16:41:03 GMT -5
Hi, John. It's good to have something to show here again. Hopefully this schematic helps in understanding the diagram: Tone controls hanging directly from their corresponding pickups is nice for the “classical” scheme, but I haven’t found a way to make it work if you want that the bridge pickup and the middle pickup are both affected by one tone control. The design works on these principles: - Tone-1 control is attached to the neck pickups, as you suggest, so it’s active whenever the pickup is active. - The S-1 contacts are used to change between parallel or series wiring of the pickups. - Pole C in the Super Switch selects the pickup output, while Pole B adds the middle pickup in positions 2 and 4 only in the “parallel mode” - Pole A shunts the middle pickup in “series mode” in positions 1 and 5 so that only the bridge or neck pickups respectively are active in those positions. - Finally, Pole B is used exclusively to have Tone-2 control in positions 1, 2, 3 and 4. About the Photobucket… I’m disappointed and furious. Now they give you only 25 MB… but I only have 20 pictures there and if I download them, they are no bigger than 3 MB all together. I feel fooled.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2019 6:02:41 GMT -5
found the circuit easy to read what is it you want TONE2 to do .. . at the moment it comes on MN,M,MB,B with 15nF (thank you for calling it 15nF and not 0.015uF drives me NUTZ) N, NM, M, MB, B ... N, N2M, M, B2M, B
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Post by Carlos Sanz on Sept 21, 2019 8:45:56 GMT -5
Hi. In fact, I don't want it to do anything . This design is just a reply for a guy looking for a Parallel-Series Strat with minimal usage complication. He wanted the tones to work as they usually do in a Strat (Tone2 for positions 1,2,3 and 4; Tone1 for positions 4 and 5). I think this circuit does what he wanted... Anyhow this is going to be a purely theoretical exersice. I think he'll be tempted by a more versatile circuit. This is the forum and thread where he asked for the circuit: www.strat-talk.com/threads/strat-series-switching-definitive-answer-needed.520385/
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2019 13:57:02 GMT -5
if you want it like a STRAT, Ie TONE1 on Neck and Tone2 on Middle you would just hook the Tone2 to the Middle Pickup (Freeing up a 1P5T) BUT if you want it only work like that on STRAT Mode then id hook it up to the SPARE S1 (1P2T) switch then to the Middle.
Depending what you want to do when its all in Series
CURRENT N(Tone1) NM(Tone1&Tone2) M(Tone2) MB(Tone2) B(Tone2) STRAT N(Tone1) NM(Tone1&Tone2) M(Tone2) MB(Tone2) B Take out Position 5 !
SERIES N(Tone1) N2M(Tone1&Tone2) M(Tone2) M2B(Tone2) B
Is to Design Circuit that when in Series Mode has a 500K and 22nF pot like if it was a Humbucker Tone Pot
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