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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: nineacres on December 04, 2005, 06:04:27 PM

Title: Push-Pull Pot Wiring
Post by: nineacres on December 04, 2005, 06:04:27 PM

Could someone please tell me the correct wiring - which colour goes where - for push-pull pots for coil tap on a set of Mules?

Title: Push-Pull Pot Wiring
Post by: jimibt on December 05, 2005, 10:06:24 AM

nineacres - maybe something here that would help:

http://guitarelectronics.zoovy.com/category/wiringresources.22pickupdiagrams/

Title: Push-Pull Pot Wiring
Post by: nineacres on December 05, 2005, 01:26:51 PM

Thanks Jimi! That's got me going in the right direction. After putting 2 and 2 together using various bits of information from this board and other sites, I think I've got it.

Title: Push-Pull Pot Wiring
Post by: Tim on December 05, 2005, 08:39:43 PM

Green and white go to the centre of the 3 tags on your push pull, ground the first tag and away you go.
South start= black
South finish = white
North start =red
North finish = green

Title: Push-Pull Pot Wiring
Post by: nineacres on December 06, 2005, 08:09:26 AM

Thanks, Tim.

Title: Push-Pull Pot Wiring
Post by: nineacres on December 09, 2005, 10:49:03 AM

Got everything rewired last night, and ...   Well, perhaps I should explain what's going on here. I have an Indie ILP523 with a pair of Mules I got about 18 months ago. A friend wired them up alla Jimmy Page and everything seemed fine. After not too long I noticed that the neck PU was louder than the bridge. This was very strange since, when speaking to Tim about the guitar over the phone, I mentioned that the neck was maple + rosewood f'board and not mahogany as with a real LP. Tim said he would put a few extra winds on the bridge PU to compensate for the lighter wood. So I started thinking that maybe the PUs were in the wrong way aroung - neck where bridge should be, and vice versa, and so out came the Jimmy Page wiring and I rewired the Mules using standard coil-tap wiring with a push-pull switch.

Two things happened: first I realised that the Jimmy Page wiring has completely obscured the true sound of the Mules - now I'm hearing all sorts of things now that weren't there before. There is an amazing purity of sound coming out of my Peavey Classic 50 now. The classic Les Paul gritty snarl and bite is all there (far nicer than the LP Custom I used to have), as is the clear, full and creamy Warren Haynes LP neck PU sound. Coil-taps produce a clean and extremely articulate sound from both PUs. Tapping one PU and leaving the other on full humbucking mode in the middle position produces a whole range of extremely usable sounds.

The other thing that happened was that now the volume (push-pull) pots work the other way round :roll:  I'm fascinated to find out why. Any ideas???

Title: Push-Pull Pot Wiring
Post by: PhilKing on December 09, 2005, 02:54:11 PM

Just swap the centre and live wires.  Sounds like the way it was before was probably non standard and you wired it standard.

Title: Push-Pull Pot Wiring
Post by: nineacres on December 10, 2005, 08:31:10 AM

Thanks, Phil. Much appreciated.