Christopher Posted December 3, 2006 Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 So I am building an Ibanez Talman and I have had a very spesific electronics configuration in mind, but I have never done any thing aside from simple little two tone two volume set ups. I am wondering if anyone could possilby mick up a schematic for me because I have tried with the aid of the Seymour Duncan site and it just looks wrong to me... Anyway the set up. 1 Lipstick & 1 Hum sized p90 (can these be wired to "humbuck" when the fader is centered?) Fade pot to fade between pickups (do they make a fader pot with a center pot?) Stacked volume and tone cocentric pot Kill switch (I would like to find some thing more like a button than a switch) Hopefully I can get some help on this. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovekraft Posted December 3, 2006 Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 (edited) It's really not that complicated, but you'll need a "blend" pot (AKA panpot), like one of these, from Stewmac - take a look at their instructions for a wiring diagram. And if you can get one of the pickups (doesn't matter which) in a reverse-wound, reverse-polarity configuration, then the center position will be humbucking (although it will not sound even vaguely like a humbucker, since the pickups will be in parallel rather than in series). Stacked pots wire up just like two separate pots, so that's no problem, either. And before I forget, a killswitch simply shorts the hot wire to ground (preferably at the output jack, for simplicity), so any style SPST toggle or normally-open pushbuitton wil work perfectly. HTH Edited December 3, 2006 by lovekraft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted December 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 It's really not that complicated, but you'll need a "blend" pot (AKA panpot), like one of these, from Stewmac - take a look at their instructions for a wiring diagram. And if you can get one of the pickups (doesn't matter which) in a reverse-wound, reverse-polarity configuration, then the center position will be humbucking (although it will not sound even vaguely like a humbucker, since the pickups will be in parallel rather than in series). Stacked pots wire up just like two separate pots, so that's no problem, either. And before I forget, a killswitch simply shorts the hot wire to ground (preferably at the output jack, for simplicity), so any style SPST toggle or normally-open pushbuitton wil work perfectly. HTH The pick-ups are set anf the neck is reverse wound, I had just never hear of two diffrent style and brand pickups being wired like that. And don't worry I don't want it to sound like a humbucker. So far as the cocentric pot I have worked with one so it's good to know how that works. So far as the panpot, the stewmac diagram just confused me more. I'm not going to lie I'm a little slow when it comes to diagrams... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovekraft Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 So far as the panpot, the stewmac diagram just confused me more. Ok, just ignore everything but this diagram - let source A and source B represent your pickups, wire as shown, then wire your dual concentric as the volume and tone pots, and you're done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted December 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 thanks that helps a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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