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Pretty much this image below, but you see how he has a series/coil split/parallel for each pickup and a seperate series/parallel selector for when the pickups are both split? This is pretty much exactly what I want to do (except inner coils instead of outer), but it seems easier to select the pickup (neck hb/inner coils/bridge hb) on one switch, and a master series/parallel on the other switch. Also I want the volume controls to be one when in series, other when in parallel (so I can account for the drop in volume in parallel compaired to series). Like I said i'm a newbie to the crazy wirings, maybe I just woont have enough poles unless I do it like the above picture..

Ok, 2 on/on/on switches, one named 3 way = pickup selection, the other named switch2 = parallel/killswitch/series. ---------- Switch2 forward "parallel" - Switch2 Mid "killswitch" - Switch2 Rear "series" 3 way 1------------- neck hb parallel ---------- signal grounded -------- neck hb series 2------------- inner coils parallel ------- signal grounded -------- inner coils series 3------------- bridge hb parallel -------- signal grounded -------- bridge hb series Exactly like that.. One of the 3 way selectors "on/on/on" will choose the pickup combo (neck hb, inner coils, bridge hb), the other on/on/on (maybe on/off/on?) selector will be parallel/killswitch/series. 2 volume 1 tone, one volume active when in series, and other volume active when in parallel mode, tone is a master tone. I have found some vvt schematics, but they had the volumes dedicated to the pickups, one volume for neck and one for bridge... that is not what I want. Still scouring the web to find a schematic close to what I want that I could tweak.

you want inter pup or intra pup series/parallel? Anything is possible with enough poles but i'm not sure it can be done with standard/easily available toggle switches, and I'm not going to find out for you Draw up as much as you can, post it up and we'll go from there. These resources may help: http://guitarnuts2.proboards.com/index.cgi...amp;thread=3769 http://guitarnuts2.proboards.com/index.cgi...amp;thread=3760 I want, like, if i have switch 1 in forward neck position, and switch 2 in series, it works as normal humbucker, if i switch to parallel on switch 2 but keep switch 1 in neck position its the neck hb coils working in parallel. Same with middle posion in switch 1 (inner coils "bottom coil of neck hb, top coil from bridge hb), and bottom position in switch 1 (bridge humbucker). Was hoping someone would say "Oh, that's exactly how ________ guitar is wired, use this schematic for that wiring setup". With past wiring jobs I picked standard wiring schemes that I had a schematic for, and I could just study the schematic to make sense of it. Reverse engineering sort of.. This one won't be as easy i'm guessing..

I have a guitar that i'm building with h/h pickup scheme, I want to wire it up with one on/on/on switch for neck hb/inner coils as hb/bridge hb, then a on/on/on switch for series/parallel/killswitch. With 2 volume knobs, one active when in series mode, and the other active in parallel mode (so I can balance the volume of both and switch to any pickup config with little volume change), and one tone knob that is always active. Last but not least a kill button in addition to the one on the second on/on/on switch. So i'll esentially get 3 humbuckers (neck/inner coils/bridge) in either series or parallel mode (with a dedicated volume control for both), a killswitch, a kill button and a tone knob. So, 2 humbuckers, 2 volume knobs, 1 tone knob, 2 on/on/on switches and a kill/silence button. Everything seems straight forward until I get to thinking about thee series/parallelswitch, and I get all mixed up on how I would do it. Is this wiring scheme possible? Is it's possible, does anyone know of a website with a schematic for this exact wiring or something close?! I've done some standard jazz bass wirings and stuff before, but i'm still pretty new to this, sorry if this is a dumb question. Thanks in advance.

Built in compressor for my bass, mmm, sounds good. I'll have to add 5 more knobs though..

There is no better. Disclaimer: Anything i'm about to say is opinion, not fact, but many people agree. It's kind of a trade off, neckthrough has better sustain and less severe dead spots, and bolt-on or set neck has better attack and very severe dead spots on some guitars.

And about the humbucking thing. I don't think a different winding pattern will have much of an effect on humbucking properties. Having more wire on one coil will have an effect, because the coil with more wire will be able to pick up more or harder to pick up noise, noise which the other coil can't pick up, which makes it impossible to cancel out that noise. Typing out noise so many times, it doesn't look like a real word anymore. Nooooiiisssse.

Metallisomething, the fact that you hear hum when both volumes are at 0 makes me think that your tone pot's casing isn't grounded and is pickup up noise with no way to ground it, which is bleeding into the unshielded hot wire from the tone pot to the output jack. Or.. if you shielded your guitar, maybe the shielding isn't grounded properly and noise is building up in the shielding with no way to ground, so your unshielded hot wire from tone to output jack is picking up the noise like an antenna. Just a guess.