Canned_Breb89

That is pretty much the same as the switch I have, minus some cosmetic differences, but what difference would the new switches make? I've never been able to tell between standard switches and the super switches

Thanks, would there be anyway to have this work with the stock switch? I was planning on just having the pickups skip the volume/tone controllers and just go straight into the boost, and I wasn't planning on having the potentiometer in the circuit diagram for the boost (I should've specified).

21 hours ago, curtisa said:

I reckon you're going to need to replace the switch with something like a 5-way 4-pole Oak Grigsby Superswitch.

Is the duplicated 'middle' position something that you are happy to work with or would you prefer to eliminate it? You could always replace the 5-way switch with a standard 3-way Telecaster-style one and do your treble boost using a push-pull pot or mini toggle switch.

Do you have a circuit in mind for the treble boost component?

It would probably be smart to replace the switch with a three way, but I'd like to keep it 5-way just in case I wanna put a pickup back there, and I was hoping the boost circuit (the one I plan on using is below) would activate when you switch to the bridge position. As for the duplicated middle, I could always just remove the wire and have it function as a sudo killswitch.

On 3/16/2022 at 9:37 PM, curtisa said:

It might help if you can indicate what each of the switch positions are you want to achieve. A stock 5-way switch on a Strat implies that it originally had the typical Bridge/Bridge+Mid/Mid/Mid+Neck/Neck options, but with the bridge pickup missing that makes for one position that does nothing (Bridge) and one position that becomes a duplicate of another (Middle only).

The switch is exactly the same wiring as stock, so the position between middle and bridge is just middle and the bridge is just silent

So, I have a Squire strat that I've been testing some wiring mod ideas on and it's in a weird pickup configuration (originally sss, but the bridge pickup was removed because I never used it and I like the sound it has) and what I want to do is when it's in the bridge position of the 5-way selector, it combines the neck and middle pickup and engages a treble boost circuit. I have an ok idea of how to combine the pickups (I think) but I have a hard time visualizing it on the stock budget switch it comes with and I have no idea how to, or if I even can have it engage a treble boost circuit without some other switch. Any advice or diagrams to do this would be greatly appreciated.

For reference, here's the pickup configuration I'm talking about.