4 way tele wiring

[yagon]

I'm a novice at this kind of stuff and I'd like to explore some alternate wirings, particularly the 4 way tele wiring.

Can someone tell me about the sounds that this produces? I'm assuming that it is the 3 standard tele sounds plus the 2 coils in series (ala a humbucker).

Can someone show me a link to download some MP3's of the series sound?

Can someone show me a wiring diagram?

Where can I get a 4 way switch?

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[eljib]

I've never heard of the 4-way wiring you're talking about, but while rummaging around the site a while ago I found a link to a page that let you listen to the same riff played with different pup configurations. N, M, B, Series, Parallel, in & out of phase... It was all there.

Maybe someone remembers where this is. If not you might have to go looking. I'll re-post if I find it.

[TooManyWires]

Yes, 4-way tele wiring does exist, and it exists as you expected. N, N+B, B and NxB. (Where + is parallel, and x is series.) I'm not sure on the links to the music, since I don't really know a whole lot of music with tele's in it. And I'm not positive on where to get them, since I don't do a lot of mods other than what can be done by modifying stock components. But I think you might try StewMac...not really sure, someone else would be better suited to help you with that part. I also can't provide a diagram right now, although I know how it works so I can get you one, but I'm going to be without internet access for the next week or so, so I can't get it to you until then. Hopefully someone else can help you more than I could.

[eljib]

Regarding my first post, I should clarify that the link was somewhere in this site, on one of those flaming multi-page threads I think.

[TooManyWires]

As far as I understand, a 4 way tele works like this:



That gives you these combinations:
1 N
2 N+B
3 NxB
4 B

Hope that helps, like I may have said, I'm no tele specialist, so that might not be how fender wires it..but you could find out how they do on their website somewhere. They have a huge listing of diagrams and stuff.