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2 pup w/ active pre, bypass switch & rick-o-sound for bypassed bridge

plumberstrummer

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Jun 11, 2025
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I am wiring up two humbuckers with a Delano preamp, and I want a bypass switch. Not real tricky, except that I want to have a separate quarter inch output option for just the bridge without the preamp at all. That way I can get the neck with the preamp into one amp, and the bridge bypassed into another. I still want to be able to switch between the pick ups as well as bypass the preamp if I want to in the main output, the Ric-o-sound output for the bridge is just a “sometimes” option here.

I figure grounding is gonna be important, and I do anticipate that I’ll need to switch phase eventually when I am splitting with one pup with the preamp and the other without. Is there anything else that I’m not thinking of? Does anyone have a wiring diagram for this?

I think I can figure it out myself, but I always wanna check in with the community first…

Any thoughts? Anyone do something like this with disastrous results? The floor is open…
 

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