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Post by dunkelfalke on Feb 4, 2010 16:17:35 GMT -5
Hello fellow guitarnuts, I've got two questions. 1) I've currently got the original tone monster wiring in my blue Revelation but it was never that comfortable for me. I've seen the Kent Armstrong wiring and I like it better because of the only three switches, but mixing two on/on switches and one on/on/on switch is not very straightforward. Is it possible to make the usage of it more straightforward with three on/on/on switches? 2) is this wiring correct?  Thanks in advance |
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Post by pete12345 on Feb 4, 2010 16:40:54 GMT -5
I'd suggest switching to the 'tonemonster 2' wiring. I have this in my strat and find it really intuitive to use. You have three straightforward on/off switches for each pickup, rather than the slightly clumsy arrangement you have with the original tonemonster. The series/parallel switch is the same.
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Post by dunkelfalke on Feb 4, 2010 16:45:27 GMT -5
The need of the fourth switch is one of the things I don't particularly like about the tonemonster.
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Post by sumgai on Feb 4, 2010 17:45:32 GMT -5
dunk,
I've not gone back to check he ToneMonster diagram (nor the version 2), but as for your hand-drawn schematic, I can say that yes, it's correct. What you've got are a 'blast' switch on the volume pot, and essentially the same thing on the tone pot.
You could, conceivably, put both functions on one switch, simply by moving the wire from the tone pot to the left-most blue wire coming from the volume pot to the 'blast' switch. Or, probably even better, IMO, you could install a no-load pot, just like most of the upper-end Fenders use. If you're shopping for parts, these should not cost you more than a few percent above the price of a normal pot, they're very common now.
HTH
sumgai
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Post by dunkelfalke on Feb 4, 2010 18:03:28 GMT -5
Yep, that is what I intended to do. Thanks for confirming it. The tone pot should be a bass cut pot because the QTP is a 5 way switch with four different capacitors for high and high+mid cut and the off position - so I can put each control out of the chain separately.
As it comes I've currently got at least two push/pull pots and two push/push pots flying around (uh, this is a word for word translated German colloquialism but I don't know what the English equivalent would be). I thought up this wiring just for the sake of using them somewhere ;D
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Post by sumgai on Feb 4, 2010 20:09:03 GMT -5
dunk,
We would probably say that the parts are "just laying around", but "flying around" sounds more like a true Nutz laboratory! ;D
sumgai
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