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zachoff 12-18-2012 09:47 PM

...another wiring question.
 
I've really looked all over and can't find a diagram, so here's what I'm doing.

Ripped the active pre out of my Epi T-Bird Pro. Too scooped, don't like it, blah blah, anyway...

I have 4 holes to fill and want to do this:
top/front = neck vol
top/back = bridge vol
bottom/front = master tone
bottom/back = 3-way selector

Is this possible? I think I've kind of pieced together how to do this by looking at the Seymour Duncan site and combining the Passive Soap diagram w/ general Gibson 2x2/3-way sort of thing. Am I wrong? Might be... Also wondering what the general consensus is about 500k vs 250k pots. Pickups are the Duncan Designs that came w/ the bass.

Derek Balonek 12-18-2012 11:22 PM

500k will be brighter.

The wiring would be:
Each pickup to their respective volume pots
>
3-way selector (I'm guessing neck/both/bridge)
>
Output jack

Since the tone is in parallel, you could either wire it to the output jack or the switcg output.

Hope this helps.

line6man 12-18-2012 11:30 PM



There are two ways you can do this. As shown above, with the wiper terminals wired as outputs, to allow a constant input impedance on the pickups, but no independent control; or with the wiper terminals wired as inputs for independent volumes that cause a variable-impedance loading effect on the pickups.

zachoff 12-20-2012 11:19 PM

OK, now tell me how dumb I am for wanting to do that... Please! :D

I'd rather do a 2x2 setup w/o the switch. vol+tone for each pup. Looked at diagrams for these as well but can't find something w/o a switch. Anyway, anyone want to help out?

line6man 12-20-2012 11:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zachoff (Post 13607466)
OK, now tell me how dumb I am for wanting to do that... Please! :D

I'd rather do a 2x2 setup w/o the switch. vol+tone for each pup. Looked at diagrams for these as well but can't find something w/o a switch. Anyway, anyone want to help out?

It's not a common setup, as the tone controls are going to interact, unless you isolate the signal paths with resistors, at the expense of some output.


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