you know when i look back this section of the forum wasn't really kicking that much but since i dragged a bunch of you from arons and other forums this thing has exploded. it is in that honor i post my new wiring diagram for my ibanez.

i bought this ibanez for a song at guitar center and i knew right away it would have to have something worthy of my insanity so here it is.

ok here goes: hum/single/hum standard 5 way no coil cutting as of yet. but i left room for it.
two push pull pots and...

Hello together,

I read something about an on-board tube based preamp in a guitar.
If I remember correctly, it was built in the 1950s or 1960s by Rickenbaker or Guild - don't know exactly.

So the question is: does anyone remember the exact guitar model?

Best regards
Hannes

I am desperately trying to locate a schematic for a onboard 3-Band bass equalizer (with integrated onboard preamp). An example of this 3-Band Bass Equalizer was available from Ibanez in their 2002 Sound Gear 400. The following link is for the wiring diagram:

Someone brought me their pickguard and they wanted it wired up, but I dont know what the little black box is. Could someone identify it? There is no text on the box at all so I didnt know what to google for. It looks like there is a push/pull switch to activate it too. Any help would be great. Thanks.

8) hi there!! I recently got this yamaha guitar, but it came with all the wiring stripped and messed up, :slap: I think i could work something out, :scratch: but if anybody knows the original wiring scheme, i'd really like to get it as it was.So if anyone there has it, please , i'm asking for a copy . I will really apreciate it much. :applause: Thanks in advance for your time and attention.
Martinnez 8)

I have a Washburn Idol series which is wired like this . My main complaint is that the series/parallel wiring is only useful when the pots are at max or min rotation. All mid-points are useless.

Also, when I have both pickups selected and put any of the knobs at partial rotation (i.e. not at max or min) then the sound becomes very blah, weak, or bland.

The volume controls are wired backwards which according to this page is meant to reduce loading. But of course this has consequences for how...

and schematics

I have a strat that I am working on for someone else and the neck pickup has no output. So I measured the resistance and it is around 200k which I know isn't right. The other pickups in the guitar are around 6.5 to 6.6. Is there anything that I should check? There are no obvious loose coil wires, but the strands that wrap around from the bottom to the top of the black plastic piece for the ground side are broken. Does that matter? You probably wont understand what I'm talking about without a...

I'd like to put in a humbucker at the bridge and I always hear about splitting the humbuckers to get single coil sound, can I wire 2 single coils up like a humbucker? Then I could use a 3 position switch between neck/mid, all 3, and just bridge. Is my thinking flawed?

i need help with a battery wiring problem. i want my active bass to have stereo out using just one output jack. since my jack is what turns the power on for the active electronics how can i wire it to do both? my bass uses a long reach type jack.

I have a bad pot on my guitar. Is there any advantage over 250k vs 500k pots?

I guess this is the place to post this...

Basically, I'm wondering what the best value pot is for use after a buffer - specifically, my chain will be:
MI audio Boost 'n' Buff -> Russian Big Muff -> Volume Pedal -> Boss DD7

thanks. btw, any recommendations for a wah/volume pedal?

I was considering wiring a hollow body guitar i have so that when i hit the strings a light flashes inside and lights up the guitar. I was thinking it would work by having the input signal providing a trigger of sorts to an led or small lamp but i really have no idea what the best way to go about doing this is, anybody have any ideas?

Here's an idea from the Stompbox Cookbook.

So I've had a MIJ Tele 69 thinline for a few years with a broken tone pot and unattached input jack. Today I finally got around to installing a new pot and reattaching the jack. Well I thought all had gone well but it's not working right. On the neck pickup, the range on the tone knob is minimal. The tone knob works with the bridge pickup, but the pickup is very weak and with the tone knob all the way up the treble is piercing! I soldered on the new pot exactly like the original one was in...

Hello guys,
This is somewhere between Guitar wiring and an effect, so I think I should post it here
I recently stumbled across J. Donald Tillman's Fet In-Jack Preamp, and I had an idea to improve it. He uses an XLR cable for his version, but he only uses 2 of the 3 conductors. I thought that somehow tweaking the circuit to provide out of phase outputs would enable the circuit to use a balanced output, reducing noise in the cable.
First, would a balanced line make much of difference as far as...

witch lug is which. what is the difference between the two switches??

I recently played a friends 67' Gretsch Chet Atkins Tennessean guitar and was wondering about the tone mute switch. (Not to be confused with the tone mute pad under stings some guitars have)

I tested the Gretsch out with his stunning Blackface Vibrolux and was really digging the mute positions tone. Killer authentic old school 40's/50's blues dirty tones. A tone which I previously attributed to old fatigued tube amps and funky mics/recording techniques. It's a difficult tone to reproduce with...

Learn from some youtube clips, magnetism for pickup pole does decay with time.
Does anyone re-magnetized pickup? esspecially on those vintage....
If yes, mind to share how you did it?

Pardon me if this question is out of sense....: Was learning in this new thing.

I saw that many people seems to be happy with the reverend bass contour control, does anyone on the forum has seen the guts of those guitars?

It could be just a high pass control but maybe it's more elaborate.

Gotta rewire a Fender Mustang with the standard on-off-on slider switches and a pair of Duncan humbuckers.

One switch will be parallel-off-series
the other will be reverse phase-off-series.

Been drawing schematics up all day trying to get it right, can't figure this one out. Any one have any kind of experience with this?

Anyone got info on these?
My guess would be that they are some kind of inductor in series with the PUs.
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Timo

Hi ....I have this very nice guitar for repair......somebody messed up all wiring
could somebody help with some pictures ,or schematic, so I could make it as close as original condition :)

thanks

boris

a while ago i bought a japanese 60's Kingston for $150. it's in great condition, has a full scale neck, plays great, big ol headstock, red sunburst, and a really cool shape. it came with a single pickup attached to the pickguard, but is routed for 2 so there is some extra space under there. the pickup it came with was microphonic, so i dipped it in wax, but this made it lifeless so i bought a GFS lipstick pickup and now it sounds fantastic.
i was thinking about making this thing into a full on...