Recent content by Cernael

"Awful sounding" is relative. One, you can build your rig around it, like Brian May. Two, you can build your song around it - how "awful" an instrument sounds at any given time is determined in part by how any other instrument playing at the same time sounds. Et cetera, and so on, ad infinitum.

That is pretty close, yes. Thank you. I'll have to add that to my think-through pile. He's a bit wrong from the get-go, though, there are 47 possible sounds, not 35. And, separate volume pots would be someting one would have to think about, if the goal is to get ALL possible sounds...

I have a dream. A dream about a wiring schematic, to be precise. At its most basic, it's about an intuitive way to get all the possible series/parallel/phase possibilities out of a simple three-pickup configuration (for instance, a Stratocaster, though the concept is, of course, equally...

The Warwick subsidiary MEC have some versions of that for sale. Here they are: http://www.mec-pickups.de/ You'll also find their stuff at: http://www.banzaieffects.com Both are based in Germany; I don't quite know how they differ in shipping, and so on, and so forth.

YES! Ehm...thank you.

Glad to see I wasn't just dreaming it up. Got any memory of where it was? My Google-fu is immensely weak, I can't find it...

This seems based mostly on your preconceptions of it. As I recall, the idea was based on wiring each pickup to its volume pot, and treat that as a unit - and then do the s/p wiring off of those units.

That is, where you can, in essence, blend between two pickups even when they are wired in series - I know I've seen a diagram for it, I think it was here, but I fail at using the search function, apparently. Anyway, anyone recognize this, and know where I can find that diagram again?

Well...define "problem". With two pickups, you just have two options here - either the two are in series, or in parallel. With three pickups, you have many more: All three in series. All three in parallel. The first two in series, and the sum of those in parallel with the last one. The...

Strangely, perhaps, I didn't find it horrible. If I had to choose, I'd take the other one, of course, but still - this confirms to me that oop is a viable sound, in some circumstances. (Aside: I recently rewired my crappy Strat, to test an b+n oop wiring (hum-cancelling to boot!), but I...

What? Turning the jack around helped? I find that strange - the only difference between hot & ground that I can imagine would be that the amp may handle hum/noise better when it comes chiefly through the "ground" part of the cable...and I'm not too certain that makes a big difference, either...

No, sorry, I'm just too fast and make mistakes. I confused the way the pots were facing, when I cross-referenced yours and the bassemporium diagram.

Um...that one differs from the one the OP posted in these ways: 1. Different solution to the switch wiring. Both are common, both are viable. No practical difference between the two. 2. Tone pot is placed before, rather than after, the volume pot. Yields a different tonal nuance, but in the...

Was it just me who took "hand drill" to mean one of the muscle-powered variety?

The wiring looks OK. Take a circuit tester and check that all connections are sound (check for bad solder joints/broken wires). Other than that, are you certain the coils are wired right? In phase, and the right wire to the right lug on the switch?