al heeley Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 I'm struggling to work out the wiring for a blend pot coil tap like the new Vintage Advance guitars have. I'm thinking basically a PRS McCarty style set up, that is master vol, master tone, 3 way toggle switch then instead of the push-pull tone pot an extra pot where coil tap can be blended in from fully on to fully off. Any ideas how the vintage wiring works? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert_the_damned Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 If you're wanting both pickups to be coil taped then you'll probably have to buy a dual pot (one with two 'bodies' but only a single shaft) something like this: those are available from axesrus.co.uk (on this page about 3/4 of the way down) for £4 including P&P then wire it like this for each humbucker on each body of the pot: hope that makes sense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al heeley Posted November 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 Perfect, many thanks! That is exactly what I need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
da_free_runner Posted November 4, 2006 Report Share Posted November 4, 2006 just a thought on the double pot idea, if you have two old pots lying about, you can actually make your own twin pot very easily. i have seen it done in about 10 mins or so. im going to try it just for the crack and see what happens will Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted November 4, 2006 Report Share Posted November 4, 2006 The taper would be incorrect though Da Free Runner - IIRC blend pots are two stacked and opposed logarithmic tapers, not linear or two parallel logarithmic tracks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
da_free_runner Posted November 4, 2006 Report Share Posted November 4, 2006 lol fair enough, just an idea its probably easier to jus go buy it anyway its its sumthin dat small Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted November 4, 2006 Report Share Posted November 4, 2006 I guess if it is that easy to stack two pots then you could easily make all kinds of wacky coil tone tap volume things by combining log and lin tracks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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