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Forum Ringside => Tech => Topic started by: Spitfire on April 10, 2011, 07:40:31 PM

Title: Ibanez's wiring diagram for an SZ
Post by: Spitfire on April 10, 2011, 07:40:31 PM

I'd quite like the below wiring on my RGA... so i have 3 way, but in the middle i have the inner coils of the two humbuckers..

my guitar has 2 pots..(1 tone and 1 vol.. preferably) and a standard 3 way blade switch...

is there a way i can achieve this?? im really unsure about it.. do i need a special 3 way switch? baring in mind i cant fit a toggle switch like in the diagram.

(http://www.ibanez.com/supportResources/wiring/W04003W.gif)

thanks, David

Title: Re: Ibanez's wiring diagram for an SZ
Post by: PhilKing on April 11, 2011, 03:35:27 AM

You can do it with the 4 pole 5-way super switch, or if you want PRS style wiring, the megaswitch P.  BK sell the superswitch and allparts or Stewart MacDonald sell both switches.

Title: Re: Ibanez's wiring diagram for an SZ
Post by: Kiichi on April 12, 2011, 11:57:56 AM

I did the same wiring on my 7 String Dean Vendetta with a Liquifire and a Crunchlab, sounds great, but I had to give it to an experienced tech and even he was nearly driven mad. It´s supposed to be the wiring Petrucci uses and it can be found on music man guitars, but try getting any information about that. Dimarzio germany didn´t know how to do it, music man germany had no idea,...turns out music man uses a curcuit board, no wiring. Finally we ordered a very specific switch from dimarzio (don´t know exactly which it was anymore, would have to look for the packeging, though the number on it´s side says 48096). It´s not a big switch at all, should fit any guitar I guess.

Long strory short: Yes, it is possible. Yes, it´s complicated. Worth it? Hell yeah.

With my PUs it gives me the best of two worlds which is a great stratesque rock sound with that certain dirt and old schoolness in it. I love it.

Title: Re: Ibanez's wiring diagram for an SZ
Post by: Philly Q on April 12, 2011, 02:33:10 PM

That Ibanez wiring does indeed use a special 4-pole, 3-way switch.  Here's the DiMarzio wiring diagram for the same thing:

http://www.dimarzio.com//media/diagrams/D.pdf (http://www.dimarzio.com//media/diagrams/D.pdf)

To get it hum-cancelling in the middle position, you'd need both screw coils facing the same way (Peter Green/Gary Moore  LP style) unless one of the pickups has a "flipped magnet" (PRS style).

For a blade switch, here's the Megaswitch P-Model which Phil mentioned, it's a 5-way which duplicates the wiring of a PRS rotary switch:

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_pickups/Components:_Switches_and_knobs/Megaswitches/Megaswitch_P-Model.html?tab=Instructions#details (http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_pickups/Components:_Switches_and_knobs/Megaswitches/Megaswitch_P-Model.html?tab=Instructions#details)