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Old 10-20-2008, 12:08 AM
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I just set up an SX Jazz bass with DiMarzio J's. Since they are humbuckers, I put in switches so that I could use them either in series or parallel. Interestingly, one of the coolest sounds is when the neck is switched to parallel, and the bridge is switched to series.

That raised a question for me... Has anyone set up an L2K or ASAT that way. Or with the neck single coil and the bridge parallel? I am curious what the simplest way would be to add switching to either to have P/S switching for each PU individually, or to have the standard controls with the option of switching the neck pickup to P/S.

Curious what others have tried or think
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Old 10-20-2008, 04:37 PM
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I have mine wired to make this possible- and some of my favorite tones are with both pickups in different coil configurations (maybe just because I can ). It basically just requires getting rid of the pickup selector switch to free up a hole for a different switch (I made my volume a stacked neck/bridge volume to compensate), and then some slight rewiring. If you want to add a single coil mode, you'll have to buy an on-on-on DPDT switch to replace the current on-on 4PDT coil switcher. You could use the pickup selector switch as the neck coil switch, as its already a 3 way DPDT switch. There is a diagram written up by DavePlaysBass somewhere that shows how to rewire an L2000 into whatever coil configuration your heart desires... I'm sure you could find a link to it if you searched this forum.

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I just set up an SX Jazz bass with DiMarzio J's. Since they are humbuckers, I put in switches so that I could use them either in series or parallel. Interestingly, one of the coolest sounds is when the neck is switched to parallel, and the bridge is switched to series.

That raised a question for me... Has anyone set up an L2K or ASAT that way. Or with the neck single coil and the bridge parallel? I am curious what the simplest way would be to add switching to either to have P/S switching for each PU individually, or to have the standard controls with the option of switching the neck pickup to P/S.

Curious what others have tried or think
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