How to wire 200k resistor for bridge pup on 3-way Tele switch

I saw this diagram that I believe @Derek Kiernan posted on TDPRI at some point. It seems to be from Bill Lawrence.

Since my wiring is a bit different, I'd like some help figuring out where to place a 200k resistor to ground from the switch in order to gauge its effect on reducing the peak frequency on a Tele bridge pickup. I can follow diagrams and can solder and all, but I don't fully understand how switches work, so I don't know where it goes.

Here is the way my control plate is wired:

file:///G:/My%20Drive/Guitar%20Stuff/Wiring%20diagrams/Tele_Standard_wiring.pdf

Thanks!

 

You're right. Sorry, @moosie Here it is:

https://www.seymourduncan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Tele_Standard.pdf

 

I see. So it's irrelevant how I've wired my particular switch, as long as it works the way I want it to. I simply have to put the resistor between the positive lead of my bridge pickup (wherever that attaches on the switch) and ground, and I'm good to go.

Thanks!

 

I'd like to re-visit this post, if I may. I came back to some of my wiring in one of my Teles, and in looking at the Bill Lawrence image I posted above and my own Tele wiring: will this work just as well as the Lawrence schematic above? And if so, why? That last question is what I really want to get to the bottom of. I just don't understand what each of the connections is doing.

This is with a CRL 3-way switch and for two Tele single-coils (EDIT: now that I've posted it, I see that I wrote 220k instead of 200k, since I'm accustomed to seeing a goodly number of 220k resistors in Fender amps).

 

Moosie - Thanks very much. I just labeled them left and right because I have no understanding of switches. So, if I infer from what you're saying, each "side" represents a "pole," wherein three of the terminals are for the three positions (neck-middle-bridge) and one of the terminals is common. So I need to find a diagram of a CRL 3-way switch to determine which terminal on each pole is the common? How does one find out? That's really the question behind my question, because if I understood it, I think I could do it easily.

 

I found this photo by TDPRI member @R. Stratenstein . This is my exact switch. I've never used this switch before.

The first thing I notice is that I have the switch flipped around the wrong direction, so I'm going to change that first. Then I'll start to look at my wiring again and figure the dam$ thing out.

 

Thank you very much!

 

Why did you connect the pots like that and have your output jack ground going from the grounded wiper of the volume pot, rather than simply from the back of the tone pot?

 

Nope, just trying to understand switching basics. Even switch diagramming doesn't tell me much. They're essentially pictures. But knowing things like the fact that switches are symmetrical and that I need to locate the commons and the like is remedial information that I never got. I have just copied pictures. I'm tired of doing that, and it's getting me confused. So that's why I'm posting.

 

I got it, moosie. Now I see the obvious (unless you tell me I don't!).

You'll see that I did the output jack grounds like you. I'll never do it the old way again, moosie, I swear it!



neck pole side


bridge pole side


I see the commons now. There are four lugs on each side, and the switch stops at the third lug from the left on this picture. The last lug to the right of it is the common. It looks like a flat sheet of metal. The same on the other side, but the movement being in the opposite direction. So here I'm in the neck-only position (position 1) on the Tele. If I move the switch to the middle (and thus one to the left on this picture, it contacts the second lug on this side. And if you look over on the other side of the switch, you'll see it contacts the third lug over there at the same time. Thus: "both." Then if I move the switch once again, I'll be in the bridge-only position.