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01-28-2011, 02:59 PM
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I just finished wiring up a Jaguar style 3 switch plate next to the control plate on my seafoam jazz and I couldn't be happier.  It even still has that sort of vintage "could have been stock" look imo  
The bass has a set of Dimarzio ultra jazzes in it and the switches go from left to right: a cap selector between .1 and .047mfd, a series/parallel for the bridge pup, and a series parallel for the neck pup.
I don't think I've seen anybody do this before, and felt like sharing. I'm one happy camper  |
01-28-2011, 03:03 PM
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01-28-2011, 03:28 PM
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01-28-2011, 03:36 PM
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01-28-2011, 03:38 PM
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01-28-2011, 03:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edmonton, AB, Canada | | | That's an awesome idea, and it looks pretty good too. Did you just do a top route to install it?
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01-29-2011, 12:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Bremerton, WA | | Thanks for the kind words fellas. Yeah its just a top rout with a hole connecting to the main control plate. I have both the pickups running directly to the switches then an output from each going to a blend pot and from there the normal route.
I'm telling ya with these pickups series/parallel really opens up the sound for fingerstlye. and along with the cap switch, it can go from silky beef, to cougar with a saw growly and everywhere in between. I definitely definitely recommend |
06-14-2011, 03:58 PM
| | | | how did you wire this up? what does each switch do? |
06-14-2011, 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by vinnydbass how did you wire this up? what does each switch do? | Series/Parallel - Neck Pup
Series/Parallel - Bridge Pup
Cap switch (changes the tone cap that's used)
[he says in the OP  ]
I like the concept! Out of interest, why didn't you use one of the switches for series-parallel between the pickups? I have a similar setup on a PJ bass (granted, just toggles, not a nice plate like that) and being able to switch it so the pickups are in series with each other certainly gave a much different sound!
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06-14-2011, 04:20 PM
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06-14-2011, 05:13 PM
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06-14-2011, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by line6man Interesting, but why not just use push/pull switches? | I'm thinking..."'cause it looks cool"
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06-14-2011, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by line6man Interesting, but why not just use push/pull switches? | This is a good point, but it does look kind of cool IMO |
06-15-2011, 06:41 AM
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Originally Posted by line6man Interesting, but why not just use push/pull switches? | That's what I was thinking too.
I also would have put the plate in the pick guard area.
But it looks kind of cool there.
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