Villex Pup wires - their function?

[Maurice Carr]

Does anyone know what function the red, black and white wires do on the Villex pups ( apart from carry a signal of course )

I do have the wiring diagrams but I am trying to figure out if these are series/parallel taps or whatever.

I have installed these ( soapbar humbuckers ) in a fretless bass and followed William's advice on reverse taper pots bla bla ( including using his special mid pot he supplies with the pups ) - but I am just not happy with the tone adjustments I am getting.

These are really good quality pups and capable of good tone - I know that so I am not biffing them out.

I am wanting to consider my options of putting an EQ in or looking at other wiring configurations so I need to know the function of these wires.

An email to William has elicited no reply unfortunately which surprises me - I've bought two sets of pups from him

Any light you can shed on this would be great.

Thanks

Mo

Edit - Oh and I have done a search here on this - cannot find anything that provides me the info I am looking for

 

[A9X]

My sets aren't in front of me, but IIRC, the wires that lead back fro the mid pot connect to a tap(s) in the coil, or perhaps to a secondary coil through a capacitor (in the resin) to create a resonance in the coil response at about 400Hz. This is my theory anyway, and may be incorrect.

I've run mine through a cheap mightymite, an OBP1 and my own design pre's with no issues. My pre's use individual p/u buffers so I used a pair of mid control pots before the pre buffer.

William isn't forthcoming on details, as I think he's trying to hold onto his limited market as long as possible before someone else works it out as I'm sure he can't afford to challenge IP issues in the courts.

 

[nutcracker]

Hi,
I would be happy to help you as I do to all my customers.
Whould you please email me with your questions.
William Villex

 

[Maurice Carr]

Hi,
I would be happy to help you as I do to all my customers.
Whould you please email me with your questions.
William Villex

I already sent you an email before posting this so you should have it - maybe it got lost somehow. I have re-sent this to you just this minute

Thanks William

Harley

 

[Maurice Carr]

...I've run mine through a cheap mightymite, an OBP1 and my own design pre's with no issues. My pre's use individual p/u buffers so I used a pair of mid control pots before the pre buffer.....

Thanks Dharmabass

Mo

 

[Maurice Carr]

I have had a reply from William - here it is;

I really apologies for missing your email. It was there in my filing cabinet.
First of all I am really surprised that you get "hollow" tone. Nobody ever call Villex sound "hollow".
I suspect that something is not right.
Wires.
Shield and black carry signal out from main coil. Red and white are connected to special feedback
coil via circuit. They bypass volume pots and always have 100% signal exchange. The only
way to control this signal exchange is that Villex mid pot. This circuit partially compensates for inductive
properties of powerful main coil. That greatly improve dynamic and band range of Villex pickups.
Any single input preamp will be fine. Spector use 2 band Aguilar + Villex mid.
Preamp should stay between complete Villex circuit and output jack.
I hope I answer you question and if you have more just let me know.
Respectfully,
William Villex.

Thanks William for that.

I have one other question - would I be better off having a blend pot rather than a volume pot for eack pup?

Mo