thectrain
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Post by thectrain on Mar 19, 2006 23:57:22 GMT -5
Hi, new here and to messing around with the electronics so I figured I'd ask before I do go ahead and do something I'll regret.
So I have a cheap lp copy that actually plays well and I have a strat which I baby so I decided to upgrade my lp copy instead of buying a new humbucker guitar. So i'm going to go with new pickups and for the fun of it try to think of what I've always wanted for controls. So here it is:
Tone + Volume for each pickups = 4 pots(Common so no problem here) Master Volume(Question about this will be asked) A blend pot instead of the 3-way switch.(Maybe a Question...)
So with the master volume first thing I thought was to get at least 1meg pot so it doesn't lose anything at the master volume...sound ok so far? Secondly is this possible and how would I wire from each pickup volume pot to the master volume pot?
Now with the blend pot i'm assuming it works basically as a switch and is wired similarily...any comments?
Lastly, how much tone am I losing by having so many pots?
Any comments are welcome.
Thanks, thectrain
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Post by JohnH on Mar 20, 2006 7:13:38 GMT -5
thectrain
Welcome to the forum. That is a fairly ambitious number of pots, and an usually large number of them. I think there is, as you suggest, a risk of losing quite a lot of the edge from your pickups, due to all those pots, particularly if they are not all at full volume . At best you have the same sounds as without the extra pots.
Instead, have you thought through some of the other posibilities for getting extra sounds from your humbuckers, such as switching for coil cuts, series/paralel wiring etc? Options created by switching rather than pots do not sap the sound since they do not add resistance in or accross the signal path. There are innumerable possibilities.
You can see some ideas on the original Guitarnuts site, which has a link at the top of the page, and also on our schematics page within this electronics and wiring section. I recently rewired my own LP copy, and you can read about it there, together with a growing selection of great wiring schemes.
John
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