magneticmonster Posted August 21, 2013 Report Share Posted August 21, 2013 I recently finished wiring my LP with the 'Jimmy Page' wiring schematic, using Seymour Duncan triple shot pickup surrounds, and two push/push (vol) pots. That ws my first ever stab at wiring, and whilst being luckily successful, I was only really painting by numbers! I decided to order a varitone and a new (tone) pot, and embark on my second foray, but the project I have in mind has slightly stumped me. I want to have the push pot select between modern and vintage wiring, with both being able to use the varitone. I'm thinking both volumes connect to the varitone, and going the other way to both sets of lugs on the pot, (with either a soldered & split wire or two wires soldered to the vt) I know how to do vin/mod soldering onto regular pots, but where to start with the lugs on a push pot? In my head things whirr and tell me that this should be possible, but I'm reticent to start soldering to the extra lugs on the pot, and I've not got the inductor yet, although I've read on some sites that inductors aren't all they're made out to be... Can anyone help? Is there a wiring schematic which I could mangle?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ripthorn Posted August 21, 2013 Report Share Posted August 21, 2013 So let me ask one or two questions first. Your push/pull pot, how many switch lugs does it have? If it has 6, then you've got a DPDT switch on it, if it has 2, you have an SPST. You want the DPDT (SPDT would work too, but it doesn't every show up on push/pull pots). What you would do is have the outputs from both your vintage and modern wiring go to the switch, one on top and one on bottom on one side. The center lug then goes to your output (varitone, jack, whatever). That should get you what you want. This is assuming that your vintage and modern tone controls are entirely separate circuits. If you could post a schematic of what you currently have, we can provide you with a more clear answer. Guitarelectronics . com has lots of good wiring diagrams to show us what you are starting with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magneticmonster Posted August 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2013 This is the diagram I used my wiring, the new pot is a DPTP push/push. http://cdn.seymourduncan.com/pdfs/support/schematics/2ts_2v_2t_phsp.pdf Are you saying I would need to make both volumes universal, and one goes to the varitone with vintage wiring, the other with modern wiring, and use the tone DPDT as the selector? I suppose it wouldn't matter so much that the phase reversal and series/parrallel DPDT switches are dedicated, because I can do whatever's needed with the triple shots (to a degree) If so that makes sense, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ripthorn Posted August 21, 2013 Report Share Posted August 21, 2013 (edited) Oh, I see what you are saying. So you are going to replace each tone pot with a push pull pot, correct? And you want the push pull to determine whether it is vintage or modern, correct? Am I understanding your question correctly? Edit: So what you do is connect one lead of the cap to one of the center lugs of the push pull switch. The other two lugs on that side go to lugs 2 (vintage) or 3 (modern) of the volume pot. The other cap lead goes to either lug 1 or 2 of the tone pot, with the other lug going to ground. You can make it so that both tone controls are controlled by one push pull pot, but you won't be able to have, say, neck modern and bridge vintage that way. Edited August 21, 2013 by Ripthorn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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