Post by TooManyWires on Sept 1, 2006 14:48:09 GMT -5
I'd like to try to rewire my LP copy to the following specs: 2 HB (SD APH1's), with a coil tap on each. Run those pickups into an EMG PA2 to beef them up, because they're only 8 or 9k and I'd like to have the ability to do pinch harmonics and heavier stuff some of the time. Then I'd like to have a Fishman Tune-o-Matic piezo bridge and run it into a Fishman Powerchip for blending purposes. Finally there'd be a switch for Mag/Both/Piezo.
Doesn't seem impossible so far, but here's the catch: I want it to look stock. 4 knobs, 3-way, 2 HB. That's where it gets tricky. I have a PA2 that's a switch on/off type, but I don't want to install it normally, as that would ruin the stock look. Also: the Powerchip is going to take up a pot hole, so I won't be able to run standard LP wiring.
So my first thought is to have the mag pickups go to push-pull pots, using the switch for coil split and the pot for volume and then into the 3-way. From there into the PA2 with the switch, which I just turn on an stick inside the cavity and run it's power through a thrid push pull pot which is master tone. (I know they make a PA2 without the switch, but I already have one with the switch and would prefer to keep costs down.) The Powerbridge would run to the Powerchip in the 4th pot hole. Then for the Mag/Both/Piezo switch, I was thinking of mounting a slider switch down on the side of the guitar between the output jack and the strap peg, which, while it wouldn't be "stock" it wouldn't mar the top of the guitar. (Plans for a possible gold top refinish are the major motivator here.
) Has anyone ever heard of mounting a switch there? Are there any obvious flaws that I'm overlooking in that plan?
So my question is: Is this plausible and/or worth it? Has anyone dealt with piezo bridges before? Are they any easier/harder to work with than plain magnetic setups? Would the fact that I might be switching between normal and active EMG setups make it hard/impossible to use the Fishman?
I know a lot of discussion of strat combos goes on here, but I don't hear a lot of opinions on LP combos and wiring setups. So with the magnetic pickups, are there any options that I wouldn't have that anyone thinks I'd really be missing out if I didn't have? (Ie; series/parallel, or phasing.) Does anyone have a better way to set up the pots on a LP? I find that I rarely use the tone controls, and I only use the volume ones as master volumes, not really for blending, save the rare occasion for acheiving particular clean sounds.
Anyways, this is probably getting long for a non-specific question like this, so how about some opinions, ideas, suggestions, advice, or anything at all really.
Thanks in advance.
Doesn't seem impossible so far, but here's the catch: I want it to look stock. 4 knobs, 3-way, 2 HB. That's where it gets tricky. I have a PA2 that's a switch on/off type, but I don't want to install it normally, as that would ruin the stock look. Also: the Powerchip is going to take up a pot hole, so I won't be able to run standard LP wiring.
So my first thought is to have the mag pickups go to push-pull pots, using the switch for coil split and the pot for volume and then into the 3-way. From there into the PA2 with the switch, which I just turn on an stick inside the cavity and run it's power through a thrid push pull pot which is master tone. (I know they make a PA2 without the switch, but I already have one with the switch and would prefer to keep costs down.) The Powerbridge would run to the Powerchip in the 4th pot hole. Then for the Mag/Both/Piezo switch, I was thinking of mounting a slider switch down on the side of the guitar between the output jack and the strap peg, which, while it wouldn't be "stock" it wouldn't mar the top of the guitar. (Plans for a possible gold top refinish are the major motivator here.
) Has anyone ever heard of mounting a switch there? Are there any obvious flaws that I'm overlooking in that plan?So my question is: Is this plausible and/or worth it? Has anyone dealt with piezo bridges before? Are they any easier/harder to work with than plain magnetic setups? Would the fact that I might be switching between normal and active EMG setups make it hard/impossible to use the Fishman?
I know a lot of discussion of strat combos goes on here, but I don't hear a lot of opinions on LP combos and wiring setups. So with the magnetic pickups, are there any options that I wouldn't have that anyone thinks I'd really be missing out if I didn't have? (Ie; series/parallel, or phasing.) Does anyone have a better way to set up the pots on a LP? I find that I rarely use the tone controls, and I only use the volume ones as master volumes, not really for blending, save the rare occasion for acheiving particular clean sounds.
Anyways, this is probably getting long for a non-specific question like this, so how about some opinions, ideas, suggestions, advice, or anything at all really.
Thanks in advance.