Hello, I'm a newbie here.

I tried to rewire my bass to make it passive only using its Humbucker Pup with a B25k volume pot.

The humbacker has 4 colored wires (white, black, red, blue) and shield.

Here is what I did.
Red&Blue taped together, black and shield wires soldered to the Ground, white to #1 terminal of the Vol. pot
(I don't need the blend and coil split function).
Then from #2 terminal, the output wire is soldered to the Tip of the jack.
Also, 2 ground wires from the jack and...

It's a Teletanker... modded Eldrid wiring, flipped controlplate, strat jackplate on the otherside, and the acorn nut behind the bridge adjusts the neck tilt... I'm calling it a 'Macrotilt Adjustment' ... it's a work in progress but it plays well, definitely a one song axe, thing weighs a ton!

Ok, so I have been banging my head against the wall on this one. It is very strange to me that no one out there wants this wiring, but I have search high and low for weeks and can't find a diagram for this. I initially set out to convert one mustang switch to a normal 3-way toggle pickup selector and the other switch to give series/phase/parallel options. The mustang sliders are really throwing me for a loop. I understand how they are working, but those extra two lugs are confusing me. I...

On most humbuckers, I personally prefer the sound of both coils parallel instead of just cutting one coil off. Since I never use a combination of one serial and one parallel, it would be nice if I could get these sounds with one action instead of having to pull on two knobs.

Is there such a things as a 4PDT push/pull pot with a 4pdt switch on it instead of the regular DPDT ?

Sorry if this has been addressed...I can't seem to find any thing out there about doing this and I am frankly starting to believe this isn't actually possible. A friend of mine wants me to mod his le paul for a master volume, two tone controls, and a pickup blender. That is easy, but he doesn't want the 3 way toggle to do nothing. He is convinced that there is a way to wire the guitar so that when the toggle is in the middle position it will essentially give up pickup switching duties to the...

I've got this Yamaha ERB Bass guitar which I'm working on at the moment, I've replaced the original bridge with a new Gotoh bridge that fitted with no mods, I was just wondering if there's anyone who knows what the model number is?.... :hmmm:

Wiring diagrams and setup specs would be appreciated too..... :thumbsup

Here's a pic of the Bass Guitar:

I decided to build a Fuzz Factory with my friend and we succeed in the circuit. Now i am trying to put the circuit into my guitar and we cant seem to find a configuration that works. the switch is a normal 6 prong switch with prongs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. while up 1, 2 and 5, 6 are bridged and while down 2,3 and 4, 5 are. The way we have it now up turns on the circuit by wiring circuit output to the guitar output (1, 2) and links the negative end of the 9v to the circuit ground (5, 6) while down...

Hi everyone. Haven't been around for a while but that's another story entirely. :mrgreen:

I'm building a reproduction of a '77 Gibson RD Artist (actually, more like a '79 but hey) along with the massive Moog designed pre-amp in the rear. Information available here:

What is particularly interesting is this.

Now that's one big sockcooker of a circuit for an instrument.

Has anybody come across this before? I can quite easily do a trace from the schematic:

...however I would be very...

I just got done rewiring my strat with Lace Sensor Golds. I wired it all up about a year or so ago and when I plugged it in the middle pickup sounded like it was out of phase in the 2 and 4 settings (weak thin output). I was pretty damn sure I wired it right. So I finally got around to opening it back up and, sure enough, I had wired it right. The middle pickup must have been wired wrong at the factory. Im posting this in case someone else has this issue and doesn't know whats going on.

Easy...

I have an Ibanez RG1570 that for a really long time had a really weird behavior: some times I would change from bridge pup to neck and when I got back to the bridge pup it would sound thin / harsh / brittle. Some times that would also happen when switching preamps or cables. Once the harshness set in, all I had to do was turn the guitar volume knob to zero for like a second and voila, it got back to normal.

Needless to say I tried lots of possible solutions from installing a brass trem block...

Hi, would anyone have any idea how to wire an old Hi-A ? split coil w/4 pins on each. any info would be most welcome thx :scratch:

Hi,

I'm currently upgrading my (actually my brother's) old Aria Pro II bass (passive CTB series).

It has a precision and a jazz bridge pickup (PJ style).

I may buy a fender US P-bass pickup and a fender US J-bass bridge pickup. Would these match correctly from an output level point of view? I expect to use either one at a time or both, so I guess output level matters?

From the specifications I can find, it's fairly hard to know (to me). :?

I did google for previous records of such...

Hi folks,
My bandmate recently bought a guitar second-hand, an Ibanez RGA32, with a beautiful natural mahogany finish and active Ibanez LZ3 pickups.
The problem is the sound of it : it sounds like a starved fuzz, if at all ! :(

It happened right after the replacement of the batteries (2 x 1.5V AA), and at some point he was receiving radio as well !
The sound is actually very weak, and when you attack the strings harder a loud, badly gated fuzz tone appears.

I did not find the exact...

I bought 2 Slash's Alnico II pro and I want to put on my Les Paul 2 push/pull volume pots so my problem is the conection because the wiring needs red and white cable, but my pickups are single-conductor, so what should i do? there is another kind of conection that allows use push/pull pots with that kind of pickups?. (Sorry about my english, usually I speak spanish)

Hi!
I'm trying to make a preamp for my bass!
I admit i am kind of a beginner, but i couldn't find any schematics that would satisfy my needs.
The idea of the preamp that when i'm playing a song i don't really have time to set the tone knob to the desired value, so this provides me the option to set the pots before playing, and when the filter is needed, i just have to turn a switch and i have the right cutoff.

In TINA-TI everything seems good , but i did not built it yet, but i hope everything...

Just picked up a Gibson Les Paul Studio Gold Top (60's Tribute) with P90 pickups. Wondering what the consensus is for cap/pot values?

Gibson equips these with B300K volume pots and A500K tone pots. The previous owner upgraded the caps to 0.027uF Sprague Vitamin Q (spendy), and it appears to have 50's wiring - unsure if that was stock or if the previous owner did that.

I changed the B300K vol pots for A500K (Allparts) vol pots and definitely like the results. More clarity and definition. I...

Hi there,

First post on this forum. Well done guys, you've got an absolute gold mine of different topics on here that I never thought existed (just ordered my parts to make a G2...Fingers crossed)

I need your help. I've got a guitar just come in and the chap has asked me to re-wire it with new pot's switches etc... It's been bodged up by someone and the wires are all over the place, some attached some not. I've stripped the wiring out, and I've now got to start a fresh. But I have no idea how...

So... I got this little project i've been working on recently, namely, rewiring my Jolana Tornado for humbuckers. I have already sent it to a luthier to enlarge pickup cavities and fit a new pickguard, and scored two humbuckers for a bottle of cheap wine. The humbuckers have separate ground and signal leads for each coil so i figured - why not make it splittable to a single? Well that would be cool, but what if i could switch between the usual humbucker with coils in series, humbucker with...

I just received a CTS 250k no load pot in the mail, and it's my first one I've ever dealt with. I plan to use it for the bridge tone control on my Stratocaster. I want the added oomph and treble of no-load in that bridge slot.

Anywho, it doesn't actually click into place when turned fully on/up. The description of the part lead me to believe it would. Did I receive a regular audio pot maybe? Or is that just how they are?

So I have this old Jolana guitar, it's probably 40 years old or something. I used info from this site: The neck pickup didn't work at all so i swapped it with middle one, and disconected the middle PU switch and pots. The things is, bridge PU seems to have lost some volume, may that be because of long cable inside? the Middle PU (now in neck position) sometimes crackles when I hit the strings hard, but built in high pass filter seems to get rid of this. Turning filter on takes away some volume...