Jazzmaster rhythm circuit on both pickups?

i'd love a circuit that gives you 1k tone and volume controls and both pickups in series, but i don't know how to design it.

 

Ya u can do it. I'll draw something up when i get out of work. I had my rhythm circuit hooked up to the bridge pickup on my jaguar and it sounded awesome.

 

1K? That's pretty extremely low. Are you serious?

Putting pickups in series would usually involve at least a 3 pole switch. You'd probably need to replace the bat handle toggle with a rotary.

 

1k you say? I don't think such a low value would be very useful for controls on a guitar, and also you'd get a very very dark sound in conjunction with the pups wired in series. But every musician has a different sound in their head and need from their instrument. I can help you out either way if thats what you want.

 

I think this will work... you'll need a 3pdt slide switch. Rhythm switch engaged will bypass the 3-way pickup switch and send the pickups in series to the rhythm vol + tone pots:

 

Thanks for this! I was just thinking about this this weekend. I'm going to try it out here soon.

 

isn't that the default value for tone and volume on a jaguar?

 

1Meg...

 

I have my Jazzmaster wired so that the toggle switch is still functional on the rhythm circuit. I love it! I recorded some audio samples of the different selections clean and dirty a while back (there are 12 tracks, the forum player only shows one at a time for some reason?):

 

By the way, here's the wiring if you simply want both pickups, and the selector, active on the rhythm circuit. No series, just Bridge, Parallel, and Neck. I notice the standard tone pot value (lead circuit) is a linear pot. I'm showing a log (audio) pot because that's what is in my AV65 JM.

EDIT: Sorry, nevermind, I'm out of touch. I just realized this is the same as the diagram in post #4. I scrolled too fast, and only saw the series circuit on post #7.

 

Niiiice!

 

Thanks!

 

I tried this wiring, put the whole guitar together and oops! on the rhythm circuit, if you turn the tone down all the way, the volume reduces to zero, this is with a 500k pot, I am making a lead circuit out of it. Does anyone know how to modify this circuit so when on the rhythm switch, the tone pot operates without reducing the volume all the way?

 

Sorry, I am having trouble with quoting on here, let me try this again....

 

ok, my quoting is not working out but basically this tone pot arrangement, with a 500k pot, when I turn the tone pot down, the volume goes to zero. Other than that, everything works great.

 

Very enjoyable demonstration!