FatMike

Hey guys, thanks for all the interest. To help, here's my gear: The guitar's a yamaha pacifica 112, with one volume and one tone control and a 5 way pickup switch. The bridge pickup is a Seymour Duncan SH-8 invader, and the neck pickup is just the stock yamaha single coil. We can foget about the middle pickup altogether as far as I'm concerned. The amp is a 2 channel Mesa / Boogie Dual Rectifier Solo Head, and I already have a footswitch for the amp. TBH, using the same switch to contol the pickup change and the amp channel doesn't bother me that much if it proves overly complex: I will willingly devise a device which depresses two seperate footswitches at the same instant, even if its just a flat plate positioned over both the switches. My main concern is what kind of switch to use to switch between the two pickups without an off position. So just a two-way switch with one side for the neck and the other for the bridge. Does a common normally closed switch work for this or not? And also, it would be hugely preferable (and cool) if the switch could be operated without a second cable into the guitar, as this would indeed look stupid and get in the way. I guess this would involve some sort of wireless receiver to power the switch, controlled by a remote transmitter (the foot pedal). IS THIS POSSIBLE?!!!

Hi, I have no wiring experience beyond fitting a new humbucker, so excuse my ignorance if what I'm asking is either too much or too easy. I play a lot of ska / punk rock, in the vein of Less Than Jake / Reel Big Fish / Streetlight Manifesto etc. This kind of playing involves frequent amp channel switches via foot pedal between clean and distortion sounds. That's easy. Trouble is, I favour the clean sound produced by the neck-position single coil, whereas the distortion is obviously better handled by the bridge-position humbucker. The current pickup switch is a standard strat-style 5 position switch, and using this to switch pickups from bridge to neck whilst still strumming in the fraction of a second required by the music is near impossible by my reckoning (maybe i just need practice with that, but I've never seen it done by anyone else). Hence, I was wondering if it would be possible to switch between pickups using a foot-pedal, and furthermore, whether a sytem is possible whereby this foot-pedal wirelessly controls the pickup switch. Again, excuse me if this is either impossible or laughably easy. Thanks.