Neck, Mid AND bridge tone control

[frusciante]

Hello there, I'm a newbie that wants to do some small mod on my strat.

First I need the treble bleed on the volume control since I definitely hear the tone getting muddy when I lower the volume. I'm pretty sure I dont need the 150K thing in parallel since I usually don't lower the volume below 7 or 8 (out of 10).

Second, I thought about switching the tone control of the mid pick up to the bridge. But as I played, and really tested the tone controls on all of the different position of the switch, I still need them on the neck and mid.

Is it possible, instead of just displacing the wire of the mid to the bridge pickup, to wire the tone switch of the NECK with the BRIDGE switch so that when I'M on posiyion 2 and 1 (1 being only the bridge) I can use the Tone of the neck to adjust the tone of the Bridge?

Would it need grounding or something?

I hope I'm clear enough since I'm not used to talk about this in english.

Thanks a lot!

[fobits]

Hi, and to the forums.

Questions like this come up often enough so that it's worthwhile to make a crude drawing of how a Strat-type selector works.



The switch has two parts like this, one to select the pickups and the other for the tone controls.

The stock wiring has one tone pot on the neck (1 in the drawing) and another on the middle (2 in the drawing).

This has a couple of consequences. The bridge pickup isn't connected to either tone pot. When the selector is in position #2, BOTH tone controls are switched in.

You can connect the two wires from the tone pots to any of these lugs that you want, and the diagram will tell you which one(s) will be active in each position.

If you want a tone control on all positions, the easy way would be be connect it to the lug shown on the bottom. Then you would have one master tone control and the other wouldn't be used.

Some people prefer a master control and others want to have two. This should at least give you an idea of the possibilities.