Author Topic: Wiring Advice Please! (Read 2810 times)

Catalyst77 · « **on:** January 21, 2008, 01:53:11 PM »

Can anyone tell me how to wire a 2 Humbucker guitar for two volumes only. I'm wiring this baby up from scratch - so any other hints or tips would be great.

BTW I want to be able to roll down the volume on the neck pickup to give me a decent clean sound at a comparable volume to the distorted bridge; so will I need a treble bleed cap in there as well?

Cheers in Advance

kevincurtis · « **Reply #1 on:** January 21, 2008, 02:53:37 PM »

This schematic is just 2 volumes:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=2h_2v_3w

however I'm not sure your second aspect is possible - basically to have the same volume the level from each pup would have to be the same...and you cannot set it so that level would result in clean from one pup and distortion from the other...unless i have misunderstood the question? :roll: that said my Apache for instance cleans up really nicely rolling back the volume without an obvious drop in volume from the amp.

Catalyst77 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 21, 2008, 04:28:30 PM »

I thought that it was possible when rolling off the volume to reduce the gain while maintaining volume - to a degree, ive certainly done this in the past with other pickups/guitars etc.

Cheers for the wiring diagram - this might sound like a stupid question, but how do you ground to bridge with a stop tail?

WezV · « **Reply #3 on:** January 21, 2008, 04:41:24 PM »

i would go like this instead but leave the tone pot off

http://www.guitarelectronics.zoovy.com/product/WDUHH3T2101

the only real difference is that the hot from the pickup goes to the middle lug on the pot then the first lug goes to the switch

this keeps the volumes working independantly. If you do it like the SD one you will have no sound from either pickup when one is turned down

kevincurtis · « **Reply #4 on:** January 21, 2008, 05:14:23 PM »

Quote from: Benmartin1977

I thought that it was possible when rolling off the volume to reduce the gain while maintaining volume - to a degree, ive certainly done this in the past with other pickups/guitars etc.

Cheers for the wiring diagram - this might sound like a stupid question, but how do you ground to bridge with a stop tail?

It is possible, but as you say "to a degree" - it depends how distorted you want to go to. My Apache clip (sorry - not bigging myself up here, just might be helpful!) shows how well that pup responds to volume and pick attack to go from clean to dirty without much change in overall volume:

http://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11021

A boost pedal would be a better bet for more extremes.

There should be a wire in the control cavity coming from the bridge already, if not then you should be able to attach one - exactly how would depend on the bridge.