Post by Ronkirn on May 13, 2005 11:03:20 GMT -5
I need a schematic to use a Barden Hunbucker TWO/TONE in the neck position and a Barden t-style (regular pup) in the bridge position.
The Barden info on the Stew Mac site is not of this type Barden Humbucker.
Here is a description of the Barden:
The Barden Two Tone is an interesting pickup. It is the only humbucker I know of that offers TRUE coil tapping in each of the coils. Most folks misuse the term "coil tapping" when they really mean "coil cutting" or "coil splitting." A humbucker that has four leads, plus a ground, can give you a coil cutting option, but not a true coil tapping option.
The Barden Two Tone has six leads, plus a ground. The extra leads are true coil taps, one in each coil. A coil tap is an extra lead, stuck in the middle of a coil. The Barden Two Tone can give you a full humbucker sound, but it can also give you a smaller portion of each coil -- the equivalent of a Strat Barden pickup, while still being hum canceling.
The bare wire is the ground for the base, and it must always go to ground.
The black lead is the hot lead. The green lead is the ground lead.
For a full humbucker sound, using the entire wrap of each coil, the red and white leads are connected to each other, and the red stripe and white stripe leads are not used. (They should not be touching each other. If you do not have a DPDT switch to select which mode you want, tape these leads off, individually.)
To get the Barden Strat pickup sound, the red stripe lead is connected to the white stripe lead. The red lead and the white lead are not used.
To rig a push/pull or toggle, to switch between these two modes, you will need a DPDT switch. Such a switch has two rows of three lugs. Let's say you are using a push/pull tone pot, with a DPDT. The tone pot portion of this critter is connected just like any other tone control. Let's number the lugs #1 through #6. #1 will be the top left lug; #3 will be the bottom left (closest to the pot casing); #4 will be the top right lug; and #6 will be the bottom right (closest to the pot casing). Lugs #2 and #5 should be obvious.
Connect a jumper wire between #2 and #5.
Connect the red lead to #1. Connect the white lead to #4.
Connect the red striped lead to #3. Connect the white striped lead to #6.
Connect the black lead to the appropriate place for a hot lead from the pickup. (This may be a toggle switch, or it may be a volume pot. It depends upon the guitar.)
Connect the green lead and the bare wire to ground.
When the tone control is pushed in, you'll get the full humbucker. When the tone control is pulled out, you'll get half of each coil, in series. This sound will be close to a Barden Strat pickup, and it will still be hum canceling.
thanks, Ron
The Barden info on the Stew Mac site is not of this type Barden Humbucker.
Here is a description of the Barden:
The Barden Two Tone is an interesting pickup. It is the only humbucker I know of that offers TRUE coil tapping in each of the coils. Most folks misuse the term "coil tapping" when they really mean "coil cutting" or "coil splitting." A humbucker that has four leads, plus a ground, can give you a coil cutting option, but not a true coil tapping option.
The Barden Two Tone has six leads, plus a ground. The extra leads are true coil taps, one in each coil. A coil tap is an extra lead, stuck in the middle of a coil. The Barden Two Tone can give you a full humbucker sound, but it can also give you a smaller portion of each coil -- the equivalent of a Strat Barden pickup, while still being hum canceling.
The bare wire is the ground for the base, and it must always go to ground.
The black lead is the hot lead. The green lead is the ground lead.
For a full humbucker sound, using the entire wrap of each coil, the red and white leads are connected to each other, and the red stripe and white stripe leads are not used. (They should not be touching each other. If you do not have a DPDT switch to select which mode you want, tape these leads off, individually.)
To get the Barden Strat pickup sound, the red stripe lead is connected to the white stripe lead. The red lead and the white lead are not used.
To rig a push/pull or toggle, to switch between these two modes, you will need a DPDT switch. Such a switch has two rows of three lugs. Let's say you are using a push/pull tone pot, with a DPDT. The tone pot portion of this critter is connected just like any other tone control. Let's number the lugs #1 through #6. #1 will be the top left lug; #3 will be the bottom left (closest to the pot casing); #4 will be the top right lug; and #6 will be the bottom right (closest to the pot casing). Lugs #2 and #5 should be obvious.
Connect a jumper wire between #2 and #5.
Connect the red lead to #1. Connect the white lead to #4.
Connect the red striped lead to #3. Connect the white striped lead to #6.
Connect the black lead to the appropriate place for a hot lead from the pickup. (This may be a toggle switch, or it may be a volume pot. It depends upon the guitar.)
Connect the green lead and the bare wire to ground.
When the tone control is pushed in, you'll get the full humbucker. When the tone control is pulled out, you'll get half of each coil, in series. This sound will be close to a Barden Strat pickup, and it will still be hum canceling.
thanks, Ron
