The Viennese Style Strat Wiring

[mrlime]

Here's a little wiring diagram I did last week.
It's inspired by the modded Mike R. wiring but is changed to my taste.

It offers quite a lot of useable combinations such as N-B and one of my favorites NxM+B which I liked a lot in one of my strats, especially if the middle PU is OoP.
The phase reversal switch will turn the phase of the middle PU what gives you another 6 different sounds.
Maybe I would wire the remaining tone pot somewhat like a bass cut control or even replace it with a rotary-cap switch, add a treble bleed mod and add a cap across the phase switch to get those 1/2 OoP sounds.

How do you like it?

[JohnH]

Hi Mr lime

You are building up a nice collection of well-presented wiring designs, which we are grateful for and deserve attention. This one looks like it would be a lot of fun, while still having access to the expected Strat settings.

A couple of thoughts:

Since this is a wiring diagram, potentially ready to build, could you add a few more lines to indicate grounding of pot backs, wire to string ground and signal ground and hot to the jack?

The middle series setting (and in general. other mixed combos with more than two), if you add brackets, it makes it clearer as to what is in series with what. ie I think it is N x (B+M)rather than (NxM) + B

This design may be a good candidate for noiseless pickups, since it features the NB settings, or with a standard set, maybe N or B might be the RWRP one rather than M.

[mrlime]

Here we go, as John suggested I added some new lines to show the whole diagram.
For the second tone pot I drew a bass cut control as I found it quite useful in my Gibson SG and the volume pot got a treble bleed circuit.

This should work well and I'm going to put that wiring in one of my Strats soon.

[newey]

This seems like it provides a nice range of sounds. But what makes it "Viennese"?

[mrlime]

CheshireCat created a threat called "The Ultimate Utah Switching Schematic" which is a circuit based on the Mike Richardson wiring but with some minor changes.
I felt just right call my version "viennese" because of my home city, that's all! 

It has almost the same combinations like CheshireCat's wiring but is somewhat more efficient as it only needs a 2pdt switch for the series / N-B combinations and I like (NxM)+B more than all 3 PUs in series or parallel..
The order of the combinations is also more to my flavor.

[ChristoMephisto]

Nice design. It's great how we can take a layout and tailor it to our needs and wants.

Did notice a couple things tho, in your treble bleed setup, the 15k is too low, you would need a 150.
Also you may want the bass cut before the volume pot not after.

[mrlime]

Here's finally what came into my HSS Strat.
I ditched the phase switch because I wouldn't use it much and found a more useful methode how to simulate ooP sounds.
The HB is coil tapped by the tone pot when the pot is on 10. The pot works as a high cut between 0-5. This gives a really nice sweep pretty much like a wah-wah.
Now if you cut the bass you get pretty much the tones from the phase switch but it's more useful imo and you can really deal in clearity if needed.

I recommend using a linear 1M pot for that new sweep control as 500k seem to cut some of the highs from the HB (only 250k between the coil and ground).

Usually I'm not touching the tone pots but with this wiring I can't keep my fingers away from them so give it a try if you don't touch them either. 
I used a mini switch instead of a pp-pot, to me it's more comfortable and here's a pic of the guitar:

Did notice a couple things tho, in your treble bleed setup, the 15k is too low, you would need a 150.

Also you may want the bass cut before the volume pot not after.

You are right, 15k was a typo, 150k is the way to go.
The bass cut after the volume works just fine, it's up to you where to solder it..

[borsanova]

I notice that my idea for a bass cut using a cap in what I once called a broadbucker configuration is now widely used in many settings.

Your diagram is impressive and I like the idea that it preserves the original configuration.

However it lacks one combination that I find the most useful of all: the B+N out of phase which is quite essential to achieve a Telecaster sound.

With the right strings it is extremely charmful and I always use it for Pretenders or Reggae.

My own take on the Strat has it, but it lacks other goals that you have achieved.

Here is the diagram:

I apologize for the poor quality, but this was the first diagram I ever did.

The guitar is a Fender Stratocaster deluxe with a stock switch button that adds the bridge pickup in parallel.

So the first seven sounds are stock. I added an additional button switch that puts the neck pickup out of phase. I could have chosen the middle pickup, but that wouldn't give the B-N sound.

Moreover it has another curios sound, B+M-N, which sounds like the transistor radio in Wish You Were Here, good for crappy solos and funky rhythm guitar. I guess you get similar sounds from your out-of-phase-combinations.

This brings the available sounds on my guitar to ten.

Then I noticed that the other side of the stock switch was still available and so I used it to throw in the bridge pickup in series.

This is the reason why I don't preserve the original config, since with all buttons pulled the selector switch in bridge position gives a humbucker of BxM.

For switch positions B and B+M the original config is preserved with the add-button down, for positions M, M+N, N with add-button up.

In the humbucker configuration the middle tone control can be used to mix certain frequencies between the two pickups which results in a broadened sound with full bass from the humbucker and stingy trebles only from the bridge pickup.

This is what I gain and it brings the available sounds to twelve.

This is the guitar. The lower button was from stock, the upper one was added by me.