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Btw when looking up pots on the strandberg website I have the details pasted below This is the pot I've researched https://www.tubeampdoctor.com/en/fender-style-push-pull-potentiometer-a1m-pc-mount-d-shaft-004-1512-000?c=335 Is this correct and will the shaft length be okay? As far as I can tell with googling they use short shaft pots? Not a lot of 1 meg push pull pots available in the UK. People also seem to think it's important to use good parts even down to the caps so I'm making sure it's all sterling.

This looks like the best compromise I can achieve. I think this option should give some great in between sounds at lower pickup outputs. Even if the bridge/neck are always in series the combination of parallel or out of phase with the middle should be a lot of fun! What might even be cooler on some guitars in a blend knob then between the two. I'm too nerdy. Thank you for the help on the alteration, I'm really excited to try this all out. Now for some other noob questions if that's okay? - When you are grounding at the various points (x4 on this diagram) Is it all going to the bridge or the back of the volume pot? - Is there a typical sequence or rule for grounding? ie. in my head that's done first is it? - Where the killswitch connects, I'm guessing it's okay to just solder it straight onto the same lug for the jack output? I've gone for a gold arcade switch, it's going to look pretty cool. - With capacitors, is there a particular one I should be using with this setup and a 1 meg pot? - With regards to areas that need extra wire, is there a particular grade or brand I need to get? Below I've put green dots where I'm guessing I need to place, cut to size, extra wires? 11 in total? Thanks for all the help.

Hi there, sorry for the slow reply. In my head I wanted two pickups, both wired separately in series for those in between positions. So if it's a unique phrase, parallel combined in combined in parallel. On my Ibanez I have similar pickup configuration. Except I have two push pulls and two switches. So everything on that guitar starts in series and you switch on for 2 or 4 separately for the parallel or out of phase thing. i.e. position 2 and four each have a separate way of engaging out of phases or parallel. I know this parallel/OOP starts with either the neck or bridge pickup. What I'm trying to do with this new guitar is reduce the amount of switches. As there are tones I don't use. As for what you've said, you've been really helpful and I've followed you well. It's a shame that you can buy something like the Gigrig and you can switch between a bazillion pedals in a bunch of different configs, but with pickups people are far less experimental.

Sorry no 1. Bridge series 2. B +M both in parallel 3. M parallel 4. N + M in parallel 5 . Neck Series Pull the volume pot and then you would ideally get 1. B Series 2. B+M both out of phase 3. M out of phase 4. N+M out of phase 5. N Series I don't know if this is possible. I also don't know what a bridge in series mixed with a middle in parallel does. Are you just mixing those pickups or does the series or parallel dominate in some way? If need be I can take a picture of the wiring in one of my guitars that's a little different and someone can tell me what I'm exactly hearing on positions 2 and 4. Series + parallel or does it all become parallel after the switch? I don't know enough about these principles of wiring.

I'm not educated but I'm trying to think of the signal path. I'm guessing that the parrallel wires for the Cruiser B to be taken first to the push pull. Then I would need to add more wire to direct the outputs from the push pull to the 5 way switch? In my head the switch is a filter straight after the pickup to alter from parallel to out of phase. Flipping (if I'm right) what's there out of phase as an exit to the five way where it carries on unimpeded just different? Cruiser B > PP Switch (converts) > five way selector > Pots > Kill Switch > Jack Output This seems to be the logical order of things? I'm really trying!

- 2 full humbucking pickups on the middle positions, no splitting - It is intentional to make the three middle positions quieter with the middle the quietest - I want positions 2, 3 and 4 to be quieter with more top end and the out of phase switch for lots of different clean voicings. A lot of guitars with three pickups have the middle one super low, often unable to raise and a low output pickup too. The reason is the dynamic volume changes of the output make the voice of the amp change. I have the volume on my overdrive and compression pedals 100% on the dirty and clean channels respectively so the pickup changing downscales from a loud signal which a big impact. Changing between pickups can be the tonal difference of a singer belting or not and it changes their vowel shape. Parallel gives more chime and reduces output by another 30% on positions 2, 3 +4 so you're getting a great clean experience and awesome dirty ones too. If you go to the middle positions with this sort of config you get more classic tones on distortion as well.

The guitar and pickups in question, eye candy.

I'm not educated in electronics and I've posted it in some other places with little help. Google said this place was the one for diy electronics, hear my plea. HSS Strandberg boden standard trem 1. Bridge Series 2. Bridge and Middle Parallel 3. Middle in Parallel 4. Neck and Middle in Parallel 5. Neck in Series 1 meg push pill volume to put positions 2, 3 and 4 out of phase 500k tone pot iron gear no led killswitch 1 x 5 way 4 pole superswitch No idea on brands for pots etc Pickups white Dimarzios with black blades Bridge D Activator X Middle Cruiser Bridge Neck Chopper With solutions I looked as much as I could for ideas and correlations with what ideas I could see with what I wanted and guessed at putting something together. Two versions so far and I have no real idea if anything is right other than knowing some symbols and interpreting what I remember in HS science. The differences I tried to make were more logical (?) thoughts on what wiring in parrallel might mean and making the white wires go to the right places where everything is in parallel? I also adjusted how I connected onto the volume pot from the killswitch. I've looked at a bunch of things for the push pull and I get some ideas but redirecting the differences between this and the five way switch has me lost. My local techs don't seem to understand this sort of stuff, just set ups at shops and a replacement pickup here and there. One guy wants to charge me $140+ to do the wiring which I'd rather avoid as I have a soldering iron from years ago just doing general replacements where I coppied what I saw in the cavity and comparing the colours of brands for type. No real thinking there. As for what's below, I just knocked it out on Publisher and once the schematic is right I'll still need to ask questions on where I think I need extra wire to make this all work.