SixStringSlinger
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I have an American Deluxe Strat with an S-1 switch. Disengaged, it's typical Strat switching (also I modded mine to have a master bass but control and a master no-load treble cut). Engaged, there are various series-wired selections. However, the only ones of these I really enjoy and use are positions 2 and 4, which are the neck (or bridge) in series with the middle, and that combination is in parallel with a capacitor. It makes for a humbucker-ish tone that is clearer and more usable to me than the simpler adjacent-pickups-in-series position.
Lately the volume pot that also functions as the S-1 switch has been giving me some trouble. If I wind up having to replace it, I may just go with a different wiring scheme that gives me everything I want and nothing I don't.
I remember a series of Strats (apparently simply called Fender Deluxe Strats) that had a button between the two tone knobs, which let players get the neck and bridge together, or all three pickups at once. I'm wondering whether something like that (be it push-push, mini toggle, whatever) could be used to create a wiring scheme where, with the switch disengaged, I get the 5 typical Strat selections, and with the switch engaged, makes positions 2 and 4 the relevant pickups in series, and that in parallel with the capacitor. The other three (single pickup) positions would work as normal.
Is this something that could be achieved (the only complication, if it is that, would seem to be the addition of the capacitor). Also, any reason I wouldn't be able to do this with the Strat's stock SCN pickups?
Lately the volume pot that also functions as the S-1 switch has been giving me some trouble. If I wind up having to replace it, I may just go with a different wiring scheme that gives me everything I want and nothing I don't.
I remember a series of Strats (apparently simply called Fender Deluxe Strats) that had a button between the two tone knobs, which let players get the neck and bridge together, or all three pickups at once. I'm wondering whether something like that (be it push-push, mini toggle, whatever) could be used to create a wiring scheme where, with the switch disengaged, I get the 5 typical Strat selections, and with the switch engaged, makes positions 2 and 4 the relevant pickups in series, and that in parallel with the capacitor. The other three (single pickup) positions would work as normal.
Is this something that could be achieved (the only complication, if it is that, would seem to be the addition of the capacitor). Also, any reason I wouldn't be able to do this with the Strat's stock SCN pickups?
