5 Way Super Switch Wiring 2 Humbuckers
I have two 4 conductor humbucking pickups that i want to wire up with a 5 way super switch along with a master volume master tone.
5 way super switch wiring 2 humbuckers. By contrast the stratocaster type doesn t have a fixed hot and cold wire per se. Guitar wiring diagram with 2 humbuckers 5 way 4 pole lever switch one volume and one tone control. They have two non shielded cables i e. That s all i wanted anyway.
2 humbuckers 1 volume 1 tone with 5 way super switch neck pickup 022 uf ap bridge ground wire 500k vol 500k tone jack socket key ground connection. It is currently wired. This article will explain how i like to wire my guitars that have two humbuckers one volume one tone and a 5 way switch so i can get five distinct tones capable of covering a wide variety of sounds. Guitar has 2 humbuckers and a 5 way super switch installed.
1 bridge series 2 no clue 3 both humbuckers series i believe 4 neck parallel 5 neck series i want to get it wired with the following setup 1 bridge series 2 2 inner coils of humbuckers ala petrucci 3 both. I should maybe add that i ve got a push pull split on the bridge to activate the outside coil. Rather than a boatload of different guitars most working bands get by with a main guitar and a backup capable of many different tones. This wiring uses a 5 way switch includes both humbuckers individually and adds tones using coils from both pickups to create other humbucker style tones.
Desperate for some super switch wiring help 2 humbuckers what i want is position 1 full bridge humbucker position 2 inside coils parallel position 3 both humbuckers full position 4 neck humbucker full position 5 neck outside coil. September 25 2008 09 55 11 am with those super switches you can do almost any combo that you want there are three separate sets of lugs so you can incorporate series parallel coil taps bring in out a volume pot just about anything you d like. 2 humbucker and super switch wiring question reply 6 on. Hello i m new to the forums.
I didn t have a need for any complex coil splitting stuff like you can do with the super switch. I m going to consider position 1 as the switch being all the way towards to neck. Same 5 pickup configurations as the prs 5 way rotary switching. Usually soldered to rear of volume pot solder joint bare knuckle pickups 2010 www bareknucklepickups co uk green white red 5 way super pickup selector black bare 5 way selector positions 1.
If you are using standard humbuckers seymour duncan gibson etc you must mount. Currently a student at roberto venn school of luthiery. Principally hot and cold connections can only be clearly defined on pickups which have a single core insulated cable i e. I can coil split in 2 and 4 and get normal humbucker operations in 1 3 5.
Many old humbuckers and single coils type p90 p94.