Norowl

actually after talking this over with a friend, I`m pretty convinced now that all that will happen is that the pickups are turned off. And I`ve decided to put the humbuvker first in the series. because it so close to the bridge adn becomes a bit to bright. time to heat up the soldering iron:)

If this is hard to understand or you just don`t want to read the whole post, I can say shortly that what I want to know is: If a pickups will recieve its ground signal from a disconnected pole, what will happen? A noisy pickup? And what if the second pickup send its hot signal to a disconnected pole? I assume it will only be turned off. Another thing I`m not sure about is wich pickup shall go first in the series. In the bridge there is a "modern" hot output humbucker. And in the neck there is an old single coil wich has much lower output. Does this really matter? I plan on changing the neck pickup sometime but this will do for now... I have an old Framus guitar with to paralell wired pickups. each has its own independent volume and tone pots, but it has no pickupswitch. However, it has two disconnected SPDT switches. I think they where originally meant as on/off switches.. They wheren`t toggled in when I bought the guitar because they where broke. I`ve fixed them now. I want to use them to have optional series wiring but know little about basic electronics, and this is my first mod.. I plan on wiring this kind of like on and off switching with an extra effect(hopefully).. I will wire the hot signal from PICKUP A to the SPDT A, and the ground signal to PICKUP B to SPDT B This means if SPDT A is in position 1, it will send the hot signal where it usually does. But if it is in position 2 it will send it to one of the poles on the SPDT B. Then If SPDT B is in pos2, PICKUP B will recieve its ground from the hot signal of PICKUP A and we have series wiring. if it is in pos1, it will recieve the ground from where it usually does.. However, If SPDT A is in pos2 and SPDT B in pos1, the hot signal from PICKUP A will go to a disconnected pole on SPDT B. This simply means that it will be turned off, right? And if SPDT B Is in pos 2 and SPDT A is in pos 1, PICKUP B will recieve it`s ground from a disconnected pole.. What will this do? create a noisy pickup? I don`t know much about basic pickup electronics.. Sorry.. Btw. I have to use these switches because the pickguard is in metal and no other will fit!! thanks for reading!

I just bought a Gibson EB-3 (sg bass) copy/clone made by greco in `78. after what I`ve read from people with the original eb-3, I found that the wiring is similar. as to the original. a mudbucker(neck) and minihumbucker(bridge) and tone+volum for each pickup. however, this has a varitone like the original eb3. it is wired like the original, and works like this: pos1: neck pos2: bridge pos3: bridge+neck pos4: neck with midchoke (aka "the mud") problem is like the original, bridge pickup has a very low output compared to the neck, wich make pos2 and pos3 somewhat unsatisfying especially pos 3, where the volum is as low as pos2: and almost sounds the same. it seems like the higher output neck pickup is drowned by the lower output bridge..?!? and when I lower the volum on the bridge pickup, the overall volum increases as the mudbucker gradually kicks in. it also has the "gibsonproblem" when i turn the volum completely down on the neck pup, bridge is also cut. I would really like to have the option of a more blended sound by the pickups. because the neck pup sounds great, but could use some of the clarity the minihumbucker produces.. I can get a somewhat blended sound if i turn down the bridgevolum in pos3(both pups), but the sound is somewhat choked.. I.E. the neck pup alone sounds better and louder than the blended version. just having ordinary independent volum controls would help alot;) (then I could just lower the volum of the neck) does anybody know of a solution to this problem? what about getting a minihumbucker with higher output(if that is even possible)? i`m actually thinking of just clearing the guts, and start over.. maybe with another bridge pickup If I can find something that fits the hole.. If i start over; I`m also playing with the idea of wiring the pups in both series and paralell.. does any other basses have series wired pups? is it a good idea? sorry for all the questions and long post.. answer what you know/want and leave the rest for somebody else..