Looking for wiring help - 5 way rotary switch.

[JasonKain]

Ahoy. I've had a homemade Music Man HH project in the works for a while. I had a preamp on order, but it's looking like I won't be getting it, so I'm resorting to piece together my own from another preamp and a rotary switch.

The whole shebang has to fit in the routing cavity of your average top-routed Precision bass with a separate battery compartment, so I'm looking at a 2-band preamp with a 5-way rotary switch to get the coil selection of a Music Man HH. Problem I have is that I have no idea how to A: Wire the pickups to the switch to get the coil selections, and B: insert it into an already wired preamp to not screw everything up.

Any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Jazz Ad]

Knowing what wiring you expect to achieve and which preamp you own would help.

[JasonKain]

Originally Posted by Jazz Ad

Knowing what wiring you expect to achieve and which preamp you own would help.

Apologies for the lack in clarity, it's been a long day for me an I left out certain key info, lol. I do not currently have a preamp in hand, I'm still debating on going eBay cheapo to just get the project done, or something between the John East MMSR 2 band and the Nordstrand 2 Band MM.

If I was just dropping it in, I wouldn't have an issue, but I want to get a 5 way selector similar to what the HH Stingrays have for coil selection. I believe this should illustrate it fairly well: http://www.buzzardsbass.com/bass-gui...ray_hh_3eq.pdf

The only caveat is I'd like to get that switching in a rotary switch, so I can just attach it through the pickguard and have it match the other knobs on the bass. Real estate is fairly limited on this project, and I don't think I have room in the control cavity to put the usual five position selector. My issue is that I have no friggin' clue how to correctly wire a rotary switch to get the functionality shown in the pdf above, or how to splice it into whatever preamp I get.

[JIO]

I found this thread looking for 3-way rotary switch wiring help and then found these ... so I wanted to share them in hopes it can help w/your 5-way questions (following logic?)