wiring diagram without a selector switch please ?

[martang]

Hi,
I searched hi and lo through websites and books for a wiring diagram that does not include any sort of selector switch. I own many guitars and on this particular guitar i really do not want a pickup selector as i just use the volume on each pickup to adjust as is necessary.

  Please i am hoping someone can guide me to where i can find this.

  Thanks Guys

[martang]

Sorry just to add i am using 2x semour duncan active blackout pickups .

[reTrEaD]

Hi martang

This should get you where you want to go. If you don't want tone controls, it should be easy enough to figure out how to not connect them.

[Jack TriPpEr]

Dec 12, 2020 13:03:15 GMT -5 reTrEaD said:

Hi martang

This should get you where you want to go. If you don't want tone controls, it should be easy enough to figure out how to not connect them.

Am I incorrect in thinking that in Retread's diagram, because the Bridge pickup volume control's output runs through the Neck pickup's volume control, that the Neck volume control acts as a Master Volume Control? i.e. if the Neck volume control is turned to zero, that all sound is killed? So there is no way with this wiring to have some output from the Bridge volume ctl and zero output from the Neck volume ctl?

[ashcatlt]

It is not running through the other pot, they’re just wired in parallel. Both pots are wired “backwards” on purpose to keep one from shorting the other out. You can turn either one down and still use the other. The one thing about this is that turning both down will leave the jack hanging in the cosmic wind so you don’t have a good silent both off position.

[Jack TriPpEr]

Apr 3, 2021 11:50:53 GMT -5 ashcatlt said:

It is not running through the other pot, they’re just wired in parallel. Both pots are wired “backwards” on purpose to keep one from shorting the other out. You can turn either one down and still use the other. The one thing about this is that turning both down will leave the jack hanging in the cosmic wind so you don’t have a good silent both off position.

Thanks ashcatlt.

Is there any advantage achieved by routing the Bridge volume ctl to the Neck volume ctl, vs routing it directly to the Jack tip?

[syddd]

These are exactly how Fender Jazz basses are wired;

[Jack TriPpEr]

syddd, true, but that doesn't answer my question.

[b4nj0]

Which question JT? Seems to me that the Jazz bass topography provides an outline for two volume controlled pickups without a switch quite well to me?

e&oe ...

[reTrEaD]

Apr 3, 2021 16:16:18 GMT -5 Jack TriPpEr said:

Is there any advantage achieved by routing the Bridge volume ctl to the Neck volume ctl, vs routing it directly to the Jack tip?

Convenience, mainly.

In some cases there is limited space available where the output jack connections are made.

In that case you join the volumes together with one wire, then use another wire to go to the output jack.

Whether the wire to the output jack tip starts at the Neck volume or the Bridge volume, really doesn't matter. All three things are ultimately connected together.

[Jack TriPpEr]

reTrEaD. Thanks