telemesomething1
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Hello all. Long time viewer first time caller.
I might be the outlier here. I am a bit of a minimalist. I only want to own one electric guitar, instead of having many for different purposes.
I have a SH Telecaster that I am fixing up. Humbucker is in the bridge. I am doing a full rewire of the guitar and new pickups.
I am going to be using Tonerider alnico 2 Blues as a neck pickup and Tonreider Alnico 2 PAF Bridge humbucker.
I am going to use a super 5 way switch so that I can coil split on the bottom humbucker and get some tele-like sounds still or just use it fully for rhythm. and hopefully even do a single coil split humbucker and neck pickup for some hum canceling action too. ( attached pdf of plans I currently have.)
The important thing is that this guitar is going to have two 500k push/pull switches that I need help figuring out how to wire it all in this small cavity .
I did NOT realize that having a Single coil and Humbucker would require one to have a 250k and the other a 500k for even volume and clarity.
Currently with cheap pickups it has I do notice a very noticeable difference of volume levels when using the 3 way switch with the 500k pots that are in it.
So I would like to figure out how to find a way to use a push/pull Pot or resistors to make sure the volume levels are equalized and the Neck pickup does not sound too muddy or distorted. ( I do have a pack of diff value resistors to test)
The volume push and pull I wanted it to either have one side to reduce the resistance of the Pot down to 250k instead of 500k and the other one regular or treble bleed.
With the 5 way super switch I feel like this could be very trick to have an even volume per pickup on all the switch positions. Any help on best practices or anyone with previous experience with mixed pickups would be apricated
Now for the fun Part.
Tone control:
I have a Grease bucket Kit and a .047uf tone cap that I would like to use to have as a push pull function the grease bucket has a .022 and .1 cap with 4.7k resistor
I attached a screenshot from another user on the forum but I could not follow the conversation and seemed like others had other ideas as well.
I know I might not be able to get the full answer, But if anyone can at least steer me in the right direction would be very grateful.
Tim
I might be the outlier here. I am a bit of a minimalist. I only want to own one electric guitar, instead of having many for different purposes.
I have a SH Telecaster that I am fixing up. Humbucker is in the bridge. I am doing a full rewire of the guitar and new pickups.
I am going to be using Tonerider alnico 2 Blues as a neck pickup and Tonreider Alnico 2 PAF Bridge humbucker.
I am going to use a super 5 way switch so that I can coil split on the bottom humbucker and get some tele-like sounds still or just use it fully for rhythm. and hopefully even do a single coil split humbucker and neck pickup for some hum canceling action too. ( attached pdf of plans I currently have.)
The important thing is that this guitar is going to have two 500k push/pull switches that I need help figuring out how to wire it all in this small cavity .
I did NOT realize that having a Single coil and Humbucker would require one to have a 250k and the other a 500k for even volume and clarity.
Currently with cheap pickups it has I do notice a very noticeable difference of volume levels when using the 3 way switch with the 500k pots that are in it.
So I would like to figure out how to find a way to use a push/pull Pot or resistors to make sure the volume levels are equalized and the Neck pickup does not sound too muddy or distorted. ( I do have a pack of diff value resistors to test)
The volume push and pull I wanted it to either have one side to reduce the resistance of the Pot down to 250k instead of 500k and the other one regular or treble bleed.
With the 5 way super switch I feel like this could be very trick to have an even volume per pickup on all the switch positions. Any help on best practices or anyone with previous experience with mixed pickups would be apricated
Now for the fun Part.
Tone control:
I have a Grease bucket Kit and a .047uf tone cap that I would like to use to have as a push pull function the grease bucket has a .022 and .1 cap with 4.7k resistor
I attached a screenshot from another user on the forum but I could not follow the conversation and seemed like others had other ideas as well.
I know I might not be able to get the full answer, But if anyone can at least steer me in the right direction would be very grateful.
Tim