A very cool wiring mod

[thearabianmage]

Here is a cool wiring mod I conjured up with the help of a Seymour Duncan diagram and EB 'Deaf Eddie' ( http://www.deaf-eddie.net ) - who, might I add, is one of the soundest and most genuinely helpful guys around.

The mod is for guitars equipped with two four-conductor humbuckers, master volume/tone, and a 3-way toggle.

The extra switches needed are:

2x on/on/on DPDT
3x on/on DPDT

What each switch does:

The pale-blue switches are the on/on/on switches and they put the coils of each pup in series/split/parallel.

The orange switch wires the pups in series together.

The yellow switch is phase reversal.

The purple switch is a kill-switch (optional)

I think this should open up a lot of new sounds! Although, you may have to drill a few holes. . . :D

I haven't gotten this checked, yet, but it looks okay :)

Have fun!

Cheers,

Joe

[marnold]

I'm not even going to begin to try to verify that diagram, but that certainly would give you a metric crapload of tones out of only two pickups!

[duhvoodooman]

Very similar the "Jimmy Page" mod for two humbuckers, plus the added kill switch. and the 3-ways that do series/parallel/split for each 'bucker, rather than just series/split. The downside is that it involves a lot of hacking of the guitar itself, because you can only do two of the switches with push-pull pots. So you'd be drilling through pickguard or wood, depending upon the guitar.

Boatload of tones there, though!

[thearabianmage]

The downside is that it involves a lot of hacking of the guitar itself. . .

Hey - it's all good :AOK:

I will only need to drill two more holes and get two on/on/on switches to complete my guitar, but I can imagine having to drill a bunch of holes in one go would be a bit nerve-racking.

For those of you who want a bunch of tones without hacking up your guitar, check these out:

http://www.deaf-eddie.net/drawings/es-333.jpg

http://www.deaf-eddie.net/drawings/5-tone.jpg

http://www.deaf-eddie.net/drawings/5tt-2v-2pp.jpg

http://www.deaf-eddie.net/drawings/strat-2pp-all-series.jpg

[thearabianmage]

I lost count at around 30+ tones with the aforementioned mod. . . :poke: