Strat Wiring Diagram Bridge Tone Control

5 way stratocaster read our step by step guide to wiring a strat gilmour strat wiring mod 7 way strat 50s style stratocaster 50s tone pot.

Strat wiring diagram bridge tone control. In the bridge position it affects only the bridge and it does nothing in the bridge position but in the middle position it affects both. I want to wire my tone control just to affect the bridge pickup of my tele. How tone control wiring works. This standard stratocaster wiring diagram features a neck tone 0 02mfd and a bridge middle tone 0 02mfd.

Top tone dial controls neck pickup and bottom tone controls bridge pickup. The contents of this diagram in whole or part are copyrighted and published for. First we need the hot wire and ground wire from our pickup. Example 2 often you can find the tone split mod together with the bptc mod for even more flexibilty many strat players favor this one.

You can always experiment with different cap values for a different sound but this wiring is what comes standard on most fender strats after 2000. Is this the way to go. Stratocaster with blender pot. This was the lead tone for western swing and back in the good old days of the fifties there was simply no need for a tone control for the bridge pickup.

Strat style guitar wiring diagram with three single coils 5 way lever switch 1 volume 2 tones. Now that we have the parts out of the way let s take a look at how tone control wiring works. Strat with a push pull switch on the neck tone control to allow neck bridge and neck middle bridge pickup combinations. Fender stratocaster wiring diagram with middle bridge tone.

This is the wiring you all know with the bridge pickup without a tone control and an individual tone control for the middle and the neck pickup. Solder the ground wire to the back of the volume pot. I took the jumper wire off the tone control and put it on the same selecter lug as the bridge pickup. 7 sound strat wiring diagram with three single coils 5 way lever switch 1 volume and 2 tones.

In the last fifty four years tastes changed a lot and now few stratocaster players use the bridge pickup alone because the sound is too trebly and shrill to them. This will be the simplest design with 1 pickup 1 volume and 1 tone control. Typical standard fender stratocaster guitar wiring with master volume plus 1 neck tone control and one middle pickup tone control.