Post by stratified on May 24, 2023 18:32:49 GMT -5
I have a one pickup guitar with a late 70's EMG active minihumbucker, one of my favorite guitars/pickups. I haven't touched the wiring in 40+ years, but I have several changes I'm making at this time (unblocking the trem, replacing the pickguard, shimming the neck, etc.). The volume pot is very stiff, so no swells and the tone control doesn't seem to do much.
Looking through my goody draw I found an EMG RPC, new in the box, which I've decided to add to this guitar. I figure it will make the minihumbucker even more single coil-like (besides this minihumbucker, I more partial to single coils than humbuckers). The RPC has the solderless connectors while the EMG pickup is not.
I noticed a test of an EMG tone control (SPC?) done by Antigua on this forum which concluded that the EMG tone control changed the response of the pickup, even when set to 10. Since I want to preserve the current tone of the pickup, while adding the option of modifying it with the RPC, I'd like to use a push/pull switch on the passive tone control to bypass the RPC. I'm hoping to get the tone control working better than it previously did; not sure if it was wired wrong all those years ago, or had an inappropriate cap value. I have a Bourns 25K pot for the volume and a Bourns 25K push pull pot for the tone control.
Below is the EMG wiring diagram that came with the RPC, and a diagram I modified showing how I intend to propose to do a hybrid solder/solderless wiring. I'd appreciate feedback if my diagram makes sense.
