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Post by nslp on Jul 28, 2023 13:07:28 GMT -5
So I have an idea for sort of what I want out of a Les Paul I'm buying the parts for. Can't test anything yet but to avoid breaking anything I was curious if I could get someone's help in designing a proper wiring diagram for it. I have sort of a really simple outline of what I'm looking for that I pieced together from other diagrams and a couple of my thoughts It's an HH setup, with a phase swap, selectable front or back coil split for both pickups, individually selectable blower switches for both pickups, two vol treb bas pots with tone capacitor selection via a separate rotary switch for each pot to swap between 0.015-0.022uF-0.033uF-0.047uF caps, then a blend pot instead of a pickup selector switch. If someone on here can sort of tinker around with the idea or come up with a diagram in their free time I'd really appreciate it.
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Post by nslp on Jul 28, 2023 13:08:49 GMT -5
I should mention I have no idea what I'm doing beyond standard guitar wirings, and I'm definitely wanting something incredibly impractical but I feel like it would be a fun project to pull my hair out making.
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Post by newey on Aug 1, 2023 5:37:52 GMT -5
nslp- Hello and Welcome to G-Nutz2!Sorry that no one has responded to you as yet. Yes, this is a complex wish list and yes, be prepared to lose some hair over it! A few points I'll make: First, you are likely to find that putting the two coils of a HB out of phase with each other doesn't produce a usable sound- the two coils are so close together that most frequencies cancel out and there is very little output. The only exception would be if you use very high gain to overcome the volume drop, but there's still going to be a big change when you switch to the out of phase setting. Out of phase works better when you are putting one pickup out of phase with another, rather than phasing the two coils of a single pickup. Second, using a blend pot as the only pickup control will likely mean that one pickup is never fully "off". There are different types of blend pots used, and the differences matter. Jazz basses use a blend pot instead of a pickup switch, but that's a bass, not a guitar. Third, when both pickups are "on", you'll have a lot of pots in the circuit which can dull the tone.
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Post by nslp on Aug 2, 2023 18:16:48 GMT -5
I wasn't entirely sure about the phase to begin with, but I figured it was worth a shot trying since hearing it with gain sounded really interesting. I'm not sure how well it would work but I was thinking about having each HB going through all 3 pots and the rotary switch before they get to the blend to keep the tone-loss from the wiring being variable, though I'm not sure if you would be better off just running both to the blend then splitting it down to half of the pots / switches. I figured I would have some tone loss either way though. I like the concept of turning the blend pot a little bit for a sort of "vibrato emulation" (I know that's wrong but I can't think of a better way of saying it) without it dropping out of tune, so I'd rather not go to a normal switch. Upon thinking a bit more, maybe a better idea for the phase switch would be being able to select between which coil you split to from the original HB. Those might be one in the same but I'm not really sure, haven't tried to wire it up yet.
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